Bilbao
Bilbao is a port in the Basque country of Northeast Spain. The port is an important transport and logistics centre in the European Atlantic Arc. It operates cargo, container, cruise and ferry facilities. It is managed by Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao). It is also one of the ports administered by state agency Puertos del Estado.
Sibport will manage the terminal in which Bilbao Port Authority has invested €15.7 million
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 17, 2021 – Starting tomorrow, the new Aratrain rail service will commence linking Bilbao port’s container...
Port of Bilbao exports anchors to Mozambique
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 15, 2021 – The Port of Bilbao has handled offshore suction anchors manufactured by the Basque company Navacel and...
Bilbao Port Authority awards contract for technical support energy transition plan
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2021 – Bilbao Port Authority has awarded the Saitec company €59,728 ($72,230) for technical support for an energy...
Port of Bilbao to construct new capacity
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 3, 2021 – The port of Bilbao is to go ahead with the construction project for the extension of the AZ-1 dock which...
Port of Bilbao, focal point of the Basque Hydrogen Corridor
Bilbao Port will be the site of a synthetic fuels production plant and will operate as a hydrogen logistics hub – February 26, 2021 Over the next few...
Spain: Total cargo handled by port authority – January 2021
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 26, 2021 – Puertos del Estado has reported total cargo traffic of Spanish state-owned ports in January 2021 of...
Spanish ports see total cargo traffic down 8.6% in 2020
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 27, 2021 – The Spanish port system ended the 2020 financial year with 515,682,392 cargo tons moved, a decrease of...
Port Logistics Services to invest in its Bilbao port
Port Logistics Services (SLP) plans to invest €1.5 million in its concession in the AZ-2 dock in the port of Bilbao – January 25, 2021 The investment...
Contract with Greenland’s Royal Greenland company for fourth factory ship from Bilbao port shipyard
The shipyard Murueta, part of Astilleros de Murueta S.A., has signed a contract with the shipowner Qaleralik (a part of Greenland’s Royal Greenland publicly...
Brexit, better with an agreement
Uniport Bibao – January 26, 2021 On December 24, Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, and Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the...
New container service connecting Port of Immingham with Bilbao
ABP Humber and W.E.C Lines are proud to announce a new service connecting the UK to Bilbao that will start on 16th January 2021 – January 14, 2021 The...
Bilbao port sets up CSR programme
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 20, 2021 – In keeping with its commitment to driving corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities among the port...
Bilbao port exports wind turbine parts to Chile
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 20, 2021 – Repsol and Grupo Ibereólica Renovables are developing a joint wind farm in Chile, planned to operate with...
Tecsa-Amenabar joint venture awarded Bilbao port road contract
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 13, 2021 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao) has awarded the works for the new...
Two meetings scheduled to negotiate end to Bilbao port stevedore strike
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 11, 2021 – The negotiation of the stowage of the port of Bilbao begins in a week with two scheduled meetings, the...
Sibport to manage Bilbao railway terminal in Arasur logistics platform
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2021 -The Bilbao Port Authority Board of Directors has awarded Servicios Intermodales Bilbaoport (Sibport) the contract...
Bilbao port says ready for any kind of Brexit
Various port stakeholders and logistics services have detailed the measures they have taken to address Brexit in a seminar on short sea shipping –...
Bilbao port to host Brexit event
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) December 10, 2020 – SPC Spain is hold an event called Shortsea Bilbao: Preparing for Brexit in the port on December 16, 2020....
Unions at Bilbao port agree to suspend strike
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2020 – The unions representing longshoremen in the port of Bilbao have agreed to suspend the strike that they...
Spain will invest €1,001 million in ports in 2021
The president of Puertos del Estado (PdE), Francisco Toledo, has presented the budgets of the state-owned port system which will amount to €1,001 million in...