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.
Port of València receives the stopover of the AIDAperla cruise ship
València, July 8, 2021 – The cruise ship AIDAperla has docked this morning at the Port of València with 1,371 passengers on board, the majority of...
Port of Barcelona container traffic exceeds 2019 figures
The Port of Barcelona’s traffic continues to reflect the recovery of its hinterland economy and maintains the upward trend that began at the end of last...
Damià Calvet takes office as president of the Port of Barcelona
Damià Calvet today took office as president of the Port of Barcelona, replacing Mercè Conesa, who has been president of the entity for the last three years,...
Port of València to tender drafting of wind power installation preliminary project
València, July 6, 2021 – The Valencia Port Authority (APV) has taken a further step in its commitment to the use of renewable energies in port areas in...
Motril port exports exceed imports
Motril, Spain (Ports Europe) July 6, 2021 – Provisional statistics indicate the exports from the port of Motril to non-EU countries have been 26.9...
Port of València calls for tenders for the drafting of the preliminary wind power installation project
València, July 6, 2021 – The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) has taken another step forward in its commitment to the use of renewable energies in the...
Navantia will invest €30 million in the Cádiz shipyard
Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) July 6, 2021 – The Spanish shipbuilding group Navantia will invest €30 million ($35.6 million) to modernize the open-unit...
Italian shipping company Grandi Navi Veloci begins the connection between Valencia with Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza
The Valencia Port Authority (APV) has delivered the «Socarrat», the traditional Valencian terracotta tile designed with maritime motifs, to the GNV Sealand...
Port of Vilagarcía closes first half with cargo up over 30%
The Vilagarcía Port Authority is going to close this first semester of the year exceeding 725,000 tons of port traffic, a milestone in the history of this...
President of Vigo Port Authority promotes fishing trade
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2021 – Speaking at the international seminar “The challenges of sustainable fishing”, organized by the...
Tarragona port steel company invests in new equipment
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2021 – Prime Steel, a company dedicated to the commercialization and distribution of metallurgical products...
New port district of Seville will be “inclusive, sustainable, innovative, structuring and will have its own identity”
In the framework of the 34th RETE meeting, the president of the Seville Port Authority, Rafael Carmona, today advanced the main proposals for the new...
Port Authority of Málaga approves annual accounts for 2020
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2021 – The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Málaga has approved the annual accounts for the 2020...
CMA CGM acquires Spanish rail operator Continental Rail
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 2, 2021 – The global shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has acquired Spain’s Continental Rail, via CCIS, its...
Port of Algeciras tenders Juan Carlos I Pier development
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) July 1, 2021 – The Bay of Algeciras Port Authority (APBA) has tendered a project to redevelop the docking and defense...
Spanish ports see cargo traffic up 3.18% in May 2021
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 1, 2021 – In May 2021, Spain’s state-owned ports (Puertos del Estado) handled cargo traffic of 45.34 million...
Puertos del Estado reports reduced financials in 2020
The Governing Council of State Ports has approved the 2020 annual accounts of Puertos del Estado. As Toledo explained to the Council: “It has been a...
Spain’s Ports 4.0 Fund is extended for four years
The Distribution Committee of the Interport Compensation Fund has approved to extend for four more years the contribution of 1% of the result of the exercise...
Alliance MD2 service returns to APM Terminals Barcelona
The Alliance, a shipping alliance between Hapag Lloyd, Ocean Network Express (ONE), Yang Ming and HMM, has once again entrusted APM Terminals Barcelona with...
Port of Barcelona container traffic exceeds 2019 figures
The Port of Barcelona’s traffic continues to reflect the recovery of its hinterland economy and maintains the upward trend that began at the end of last...