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.
Spanish dockworkers to accept reduction of wages
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – Spanish stevedores will accept a 10% cut in salary for the higher salaries, early retirement schemes and...
Barcelona port to present technological innovations at SIL
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 24, 2017 – The agenda of activities of the Barcelona Port Community at the International Logistics Exhibition (SIL) will...
Spain’s Anesco rejects proposal for change in bylaws
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish association of ship consignees and dockworker employers Asociación Nacional de...
Spanish trade union CETM ratifies preliminary agreement to start talks with Anesco
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) has ratified the preliminary...
Spanish trade union cancels first five days of strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish stevedores trade union Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores del Mar (CETM) and employers union...
Spanish minister praises preliminary labour deal on port reform
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has expressed his satisfaction that trade unions have...
Spanish public works minister says stevedores, employers have all tools to strike deal
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Spanish public works minister Íñigo de la Serna said that trade unions of stevedores and employers union...
Barcelona port president warns against consequences of potential strike
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president Sixte Cambra has warned that a strike at...
CILSA publishes 2016 results
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – CILSA, owned by the Port of Barcelona (63%), Merlin Properties (32%) and Sepes (5%) has closed 2016 with...
France’s Carrefour starts operating warehouse at Barcelona port’s logistics complex
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Carrefour S.A. and the ZAL Port have inaugurated today a warehouse which CILSA has built for the distribution...
MSC Cruises eyes construction of private terminal at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 22, 2017 – Barcelona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona) president Sixte Cambra said MSC Cruises is...
Spanish stevedores, employees to meet on May 22 to discuss sector reform
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Spanish stevedores’ trade unions and companies will hold their first meeting after the approval in...
Spanish government calls on trade unions to cancel strikes at ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Julio Gómez-Pomar, has called on stevedores to dismiss the call...
Spain prepares for OPE 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – The president of national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Jose Llorca, attended a meeting of the Joint...
EC says Spanish port reform decree complies with rules
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 19, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) said that the decree approved yesterday by the Spanish parliament to liberalise the...
Spanish dockworkers trade unions express readiness to negotiate
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish dockworkers trade unions consider that the government is “giving” them a...
Spanish minister asks dockworkers for “common sense”
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Inigo de la Serna, today asked trade unions of dockers and employers for...
Spanish Congress ratifies stowage sector reform decree
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – The Spanish Congress of Deputies has ratified by a simple majority the royal decree of reform of the...
Port of Barcelona – Traffic Indicators – Accumulated data March 2017
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18,2017 – The Port of Barcelona has published accumulated traffic statistics for March 2017: TRAFFIC INDICATORS...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – March 2017 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports March 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...