Algeciras
The Port of Algeciras is the port and harbour of Algeciras, a city located in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It is a commercial, fishing and passenger port. The ports of Bahía de Algeciras and Tarifa ports are managed by Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras). Primarily a transshipment port, its position near the Strait of Gibraltar and key East-West shipping routes establishes it as one of the busiest transshipment hubs in the world. It competes with Tanger-Med for the local transshipment market. 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.
Cádiz port to present services to US companies
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – Cádiz port plans to present its facilities and services next week to US companies in the logistics sector...
Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo leading corporate venturing at Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – Spanish legal firm Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo is leading the first “corporate...
Spain signs collective labour agreement for port workers
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador De la Encina, has met with union representatives to sign the III...
Algeciras port discusses repair project with AESBA
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2019 – Algeciras port authority president Gerardo Landaluce has held his first meeting with the board of the...
Algeciras and Ningbo Zhoushan ports specify collaboration in training
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – A delegation from Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras)...
Algeciras port to participate in Spain-China business meeting in Schenzhen
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras) will participate this...
Spanish port traffic exceeds 140 million tons in first quarter of 2019
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – The traffic of goods through state ports handled 140,494,899 tons in the first three months of 2019, an...
Bergé leads port digitalisation project of Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Bergé is leading a project for the digitalisation of Spanish ports through its port operations business unit,...
Renfe Mercancías relaunches Algeciras-Madrid Abroñigal rail link
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 13, 2019 – Spanish rail freight services operator Renfe Mercancías relaunched the rail link from Algeciras port to Madrid...
Algeciras port, Andalusia government to cooperate in advancing infrastructure development
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) May 7, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Algeciras (APBA – Port Authority of Algeciras) plans to launch a...
Algeciras, Ningbo Zhoushan ports consider joint projects
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) May 3, 2019 – A delegation from the Chinese port of Ningbo Zhoushan is visiting Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de...
Algeciras port to recover rail freight traffic on May 13
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Algeciras port plans to recover rail freight traffic on May 13 after the completion of the rehabilitation...
Spain’s CCOO calls off ports strike scheduled for April 26
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Spanish trade union CCOO (Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras) has called off the strike...
Puertos del Estado president opens CORE LNGas hive project conference
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina and the president...
Puertos del Estado reaches agreement on collective labour contract
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has said that an agreement has been reached with trade unions...
Algeciras port to host III Conference of CORE LNGas Project Hive project
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, accompanied by the...
Spain’s competition watchdog launches study on national port network
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 18, 2019 – Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched a...
Trade unions call off strike at Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 16, 2019 – Spanish trade unions CCOO, UGT and CIG have called off the 24-hour port strike scheduled for April 17, 2019,...
Spanish trade union CCOO calls port workers strike on April 17
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Spanish trade union CC OO union has called a strike of 21 hours of port workers on April 17. The reason is...
Puertos del Estado reports February 2019 cargo figures by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...