Spain
Spain (España) is located in Southwest Europe, occupying the Iberian peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; a member of the European Union; by tonnage the leading ports are Algeciras, Barcelona and València. State ports are managed by Puertos del Estado which executes port policy of the government; made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports.
A Coruna port agrees 90 cruise calls by 2018
A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – A Coruna port agreed a total of 90 cruise calls by 2018, the port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de A...
Tenerife port calls tender for installation of line for power supply to ships
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) has called a tender for the installation...
India’s Sarjak reinforces presence on Spanish market
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – Indian shipping company Sarjak Containers Lines, specialising in project cargo, has reinforced its...
India’s SCI to restart import, export service to Spain
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 – Indian state shipping company Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), plans to restart its import and export...
Launch of Canal Frío rail service between Barcelona and Zaragoza
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 26, 2017 – The launch of Canal Frío (Cold Channel) opens up new opportunities for the internationalisation of...
Spanish cruise ports aim to hit 9.5 million passenger mark by 2020
Malaga, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2017 – Spain’s cruise ports welcomed a record 8.7 million passengers in 2016, a 0.6% rise from 2015. Ports in...
Valencia port receives visit of foundation for support of railway operations between China, Spain
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Valencia port received this week a visit of a delegation from the Foundation for Exchange between Yiwu and...
Barcelona port participates in meeting with Moroccan entrepreneurs
Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Barcelona port has participated this week in the VI Hispano-Moroccan Business Meeting of the Maritime,...
Algeciras port carries out commercial missions in Bergen, Tangier
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Algeciras port and its port community (Comport) closed yesterday two commercial missions in Bergen (Norway)...
Huelva port completes trade mission to Canary Islands
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – The commercial mission of the Association for the Commercial Promotion of the Port of Huelva, HuelvaPort, and...
Valencia port designs management structure targeting simplification
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has designed a management chart aiming at a...
Bilbao port calls tender for construction of warehouse at AZ-2 dock
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 24, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has called a tender for the construction of the...
Increased rail traffic at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) march 23, 2017 – Last year, 1,615 tanker trucks loaded approximately 40,000 tons of LNG at the Bahía Bizkaia Gas facilities...
Consignaciones Toro y Betolaza receives BRC certificate
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Consignaciones Toro Y Betolaza S.A. has obtained the BRC Storage and Distribution Issue 2 certificate in...
Navacel loads floating wind towers
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Navacel has started shipping five towers that will be part of the structures of the wind turbines of...
Bilbao maritime cruise station set to open
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – On 29 March, concurrently with the call of P&O’s Brittania, the new Bilbao maritime cruise station...
Bilbao port handles largest container ship ever
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – The “Cezanne” vessel of Danish shipping group Maersk became the largest container ship ever to...
Dockworkers, employers’ association fail to strike deal on stowage agreement
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – The meeting between the stevedoring unions and the employers’ association ANESCO on the collective...
Galicia government awards Ferrol-A Coruna railway contract
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Galicia regional government has awarded the contract for an analysis of potential alternatives for the...
Aviles port cargo traffic rises 6.36% in Jan-Feb 2017
Aviles, Spain (Ports Europe) March 23, 2017 – Aviles port handled a total of 677,311 tonnes of cargo in the first two months of 2017, 40,498 more than in the...