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.
Bilbao port cargo traffic rises in Q1 2018
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) April 25, 2018 – Bilbao port handled between January and March a total of 8.6 million tonnes, 22% more than in the same period of...
Bilbao port works to attract cruise passengers from USA
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) is working to attract cruise passengers from the United...
Bilbao port’s Getxo cruise terminal handles 34 large leisure vessels in one year
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2018 – With the berthing of the cruise ship Queen Victoria, the Getxo cruise terminal of Bilbao port handled a total...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – February 2018 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 15, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
Bergé transports large sculptures of Eduardo Chillida to Spain
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2018 – Bergé was the company in charge of carrying out the maritime transport from the United States to Bilbao of...
Bilbao port for first time handles LNG arriving from Siberia
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – An ice-breaking methane tanker arrived to in the port of Bilbao with gas from one of the largest deposits in the...
CMA CGM carries out oversized cargo operation at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – French company CMA CGM, one of the world leaders in maritime transport, has recently demonstrated its ability...
Spain’s Bikote Solar completes construction of PV plant at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Spanish company Bikote Solar has recently launched a 100 kW photovoltaic plant for refrigerated storage...
Bilbao opens port center
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (Port Authority of Bilbao) has opened the new Port Center, designed as an...
Puertos del Estado reports figures for fish landed at Spanish ports in January 2018
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – The state-owned authority for ports, Puertos del Estado, has reported fish landed by Spanish ports in...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – January 2018 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports January 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
Bilbao port, a meeting point between China and Atlantic Europe
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 21, 2018 – China is one of the 12 main markets in total traffic of the port of Bilbao and the second in containerised...
South European ports head for Intermodal South America logistics exhibition
São Paulo, Brazil (Ports Europe) March 20, 2018 – The 25th edition of Intermodal South America, an international exhibition for logistics, cargo...
Bilbao port recovers traffic of Canarian bananas
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 13, 2018 – Bilbao port recovers, thanks to the Boluda Lines shipping company, the traffic of Canarian bananas which will...
Bilbao port aims to diversify cruise traffic
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 8, 2018 – Bilbao port has opted to be the destination of a wide range of shipping companies, diversifying the customers it...
Finnlines launches Bilbao-Rosyth service
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) March 1, 2018 – Finnish shipping company Finnlines, a subsidiary of Italy’s Grimaldi Group, will launch a new sea...
Boluda launches Canary Islands-Cantabria line
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Boluda Corporación Marítima, through Boluda Lines, has launched a Canary Islands-Cantabria line, utilising...
Ricardo Barkala to be next president of Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 28, 2018 – Ricardo Barkala will be the next president of Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) to...
Atlantic Arc Commissions hub meetings prepare for post-Brexit period
Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, 26 February 2018 The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions’ (CPMR) Atlantic Arc Commission (AAC) held its...
Private companies invest €71 million in Bilbao port in 2017
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao has reached an occupancy rate of nearly 83% in 2017 and private enterprise is...