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Almería

The Port of Almería is located on Spain’s Southern Mediterranean coastline. It has regular ROPAX services linking it to North Africa and its main customers come from the agricultural, marble and dry bulk sectors. Through the Port of Carboneras, Endesa imports coal and Holcim exports cement. In Almería, the outer extension is made up of a quay measuring 300 metres long and 14 m deep. In Carboneras, there is a public quay measuring 297 m long and 17 m deep, and a quay used by Endesa measuring 146 m long and 9.35 m deep, this helping the port to attract new concessions and traffic. It is managed by Autoridad Portuaria de Almería and is under the auspices of Puertos del Estado, the state-owned authority.

Andalusian ports boost fresh fish cargo traffic in Jan-Nov 2017

Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) January 17, 2018 – The Andalusian ports owned by the central Spanish government handled 23,539 tonnes of fresh fish in the first...

Almería port expects ferry traffic to rise by 16% in 2017

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Almería port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Almería) expects the number of ferry passengers handled in...

Baleària cancels 12 ferry trips to Melilla 

Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. has suspended 12 ferry trips between the ports of...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – October 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports October cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Almería port cruise traffic declines in 2017

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Almería port saw the positive trend in the cruise segment, kept since 2014, broken this year. With the...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – September 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports August cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – August 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) October 10, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports August cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Andalusia government to promote cruise offer at CruiseWorld fair in Florida

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – Andalusia’s regional government and Andalusia Cruises, an association that includes the seven...

Andalusian ports handle 4.2 million tonnes of fruits, vegetables in 2016

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – The Andalusian ports, namely Almería, Algeciras Bay, Cádiz, Huelva, Málaga, Motril and Seville, handled a...

Almería port prepares for end of cruise season

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – Almería port will see next week the arrival of six cruises in four days, which will mean the landing of...

AML to launch regular daily line linking Almería port to Morocco’s Nador

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Shipping company Africa Morocco Link (AML) plans to launch a regular daily passenger and ro-ro line...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – July 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports July 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...

Spain: 3.6 million cruise passengers in the first six months of 2017

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Cruise passenger traffic through Spanish ports has once again set a new historic record in the first...

Almería port boost passenger traffic during OPE

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Almería port handled 232,502 passengers as part of the Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE) initiative in...

Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – June 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports June 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Andalusia ports cargo traffic falls 4.3% y/y in H1 2017

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Traffic in Andalusian ports has fallen 4.3% to 73.39 million tonnes in the first half of the year. Algeciras...

Carmen Ortiz assumes Almería port presidency with enthusiasm

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Carmen Ortiz, who will be the new president of Almería port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Almería)...

Baleària reinforces links to North Africa

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Spanish ferry company Baleària has reinforced the services that connect with north Africa, both in terms of...

Spanish government names president of Almería port 

Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – Spain’s government has approved the appointment of Carmen Ortiz Rivas as president of Almería port...

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