Barcelona
The Port of Barcelona is located on Spain’s Mediterranean coast about 150 km south of the country’s border with France. The state-owned port is operated by Autoritat Portuària de Barcelona (APB – Port Authority of Barcelona). Most types of cargo are handled including dry and liquid bulk, Ro-Ro, containers, liquefied gas and breakbulk. There are also extensive facilities for cruise and ferry passengers, fishing boats and leisure craft.
Cosco Shipping Spain obtains the OEA
Agencia Tributaria (Tax Agency) has graned COSCO SHIPPING Lines Spain the status of Authorized Economic Operator in the AEOS category of Protection and...
Barcelona port business mission to Colombia goes digital
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 28, 2020 – Barcelona port conducts regular trade missions to Latin American countries to build up relations with...
Testing of railway services begins between Súria mine and potash terminal of ICL in the Port of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 19, 2020 – ICL Iberia has started testing a railway service between its facility in Súria and Barcelona port for...
Barcelona port to deploy new telecommunications network in 2023
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 19, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona plans to have its new telecommunications network deployed by 2023, a project in...
Mercè Conesa seeks maximum investment in Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 13, 2020 – Mercè Conesa, President of Autoritat Portuària de Barcelona (APB – Port Authority of Barcelona),...
Barcelona port produces positive rail audit
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 11, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has successfully completed the audit of its Security Management System and Railway...
Spain: Total port traffic Q1 2020 by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) May 6, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has published port authority cargo numbers for January-March 2020, showing that total...
Spanish port traffic fell by 4.7% in first quarter of the year
The economic measures for port companies facilitate a saving of €100 million in reduction of rates and an injection of liquidity of another €250 million in...
APM Terminals merges Valencia, Barcelona, Castellón and Gijón teams experience into new structure
APM Terminals has started a process to unify its terminal teams into a combined structure that involves the company’s four import and export terminals in...
Barcelona joins Port Authorities Roundtable to fight Covid-19
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 5, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has signed the manifesto promoted by the Port Authorities Roundtable (PAR) in support...
CILSA awarded two concessions at ZAL Port, Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) May 4, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has approved the concession of two parcels of land to CILSA, managing entity of...
Barcelona port makes new container storage spaces for operators
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2020 – The Port of Barcelona has provided two new spaces available for port operators for the storage of full,...
Barcelona port to distribute almost 200,000 masks and 44,200 gloves to Port Community
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 27, 2020 – Autoritat Portuària de Barcelona (APB – Port Authority of Barcelona) has reported that it will...
Port of Barcelona approves new measures and prepares Recovery plan
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – In the coming days, the Port of Barcelona will begin to apply a series of measures aimed at mitigating...
Freight traffic at Barcelona port down 8.3% in March
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – Freight traffic at Barcelona port totalled 4.9 million tonnes in March, a fall of 8.3% compared to the...
Puertos del Estado publishes guidelines for pilotage, stevedoring and port community
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has produced four documents because of the global emergence of COVID-19 to support...
APMT Barcelona: COVID-19 Terminal Status Update – April 7, 2020
News Update – COVID-19 Terminal Status Update – April 7, 2020 General status: APM Terminals Barcelona is operating normally. The action...
ESPO calls for Covid-19 exit and recovery strategy for ports
Belgium, Brussels (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has called on the European Union (EU) to decide on an...
Puertos del Estado distributes second batch of masks to maritime sector
The shipment of 840,000 units completes the allocation of 1.1 million decreed in Order TMA / 263/2020, of March 20, of MITMA. Port authorities, SASEMAR and the...
Barcelona port reduces cost of stay in terminals for import containers
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 6, 2020 – Port de Barcelona is to reduce the cost of storing import containers at the port’s terminals, a...