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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 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...

Bilbao port invests €61.5 million in 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – In 2017, the Port Authority of Bilbao invested €61.5 million ($75.87 million), with the sum set to...

Bilbao port starts 2018 cruise season

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 27, 2018 – This coming Sunday, 25 February, the cruise vessel Saga Sapphire, belonging to Saga Cruises, and...

Bilbao increase cargo traffic 7% on 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) february 27, 2018 – The Port of Bilbao ended 2017 with a 7% traffic growth, a 2.2 million-tonne increase over 2016. This is...

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

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...

Bahía de Bizkaia Gas increases LNG handled in 2017

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2018 – Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), 50% owned by Enegas and the Basque Energy Agency (EVE), increased...

Santander port analyses competition of Bilbao, Gijón harbours

Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2018 – The strategy of Santander port to keep its competitiveness at the service of the economy of Cantabria...

Bilbao port president to resign in June

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2018 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) president Asier Atutxa plans to resign in June to...

Algeciras port hosts meeting of Mediterranean, Atlantic corridors workgroup

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 21, 2018 – Algeciras port hosted the first meeting of the year of the working group of ports and intermodal...

Bilbao port promotes transshipment of fruits, vegetables to Europe

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – Bilbao port repeats its presence in Fruit Logistica fair, this time from the stand of Puertos del Estado,...

Spain’s Noatum focuses on cars, multipurpose terminals after asset sale to COSCO

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 9, 2018 – Spanish group Noatum’s business has been reduced to car and multipurpose terminals as well as sea...

Bilbao port aspires to gain leadership in Spain’s Atlantic as Pasaia struggles

Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2018 – Bilbao port aspires to be the most important harbour for the traffic in the Spanish Atlantic region, as...

Algeciras port presents bunkering, innovation activities in Rotterdam 

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2018 – Algeciras port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Algeciras) has participated in the Seminar on...

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

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 6, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports November 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...

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