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The Port of Cádiz Bay is a port facility in Cadiz Bay serving the city and province of Cádiz in southern Spain. There are four docks – Cadiz, Zona Franca (free zone), La Cabezuela-Puerto Real and El Puerto de Santa María – which handle all kinds of cargo and have the capacity to adapt to new maritime traffic. It is managed locally by Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz). State ports are managed by Puertos del Estado which executes port policy of the government; made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports.

Spanish ports cargo traffic up 4.56% in Jan-Oct 2022 (statistics)

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2022 – State-owned ports handled 472.82 million tons in January-October 2022, with traffic up +4.56% compared to...

General traffic in the Port of Cádiz recorded 4.7 million tons in Jan-Oct 2022

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 11, 2022 – Total general traffic in the Port of the Bay of Cádiz recorded 4.7 million tons of cargo in...

Port of Cádiz obtains European subsidy for New Container Terminal

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2022 – The Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz (APBC) has obtained €15.6 million of European subsidy for the...

Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz plans dock electrification

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2022 – Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz has started planning dock electrification at the the Alfonso XIII...

Ranking: Top 10 Spanish container ports – January-September 2022

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) October 26, 2022 – Puertos del Estado has published a list of the top 10 container ports in the first nine months of 2022....

In Q3 2022, cargo of Spanish ports was 425.3 mln tons, up 5%

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) October 26, 2022 – In Q3 2022, total cargo traffic of Spanish state ports was 425.3 million tons, an increase of...

Cepsa completes advanced biofuels shipping trial

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 7, 2022 – Cepsa has completed the first advanced biofuels (2G) trial in Spain of in one of the ships used by the...

Spanish state ports handled 380.1 million tons of cargo in Jan-Aug 2022

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 27, 2022 – Spanish state ports handled 380.1 million tons of cargo in January-August 2022, up +5.55% on the same...

Port of Cádiz starts up a second solar plant

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) September 7, 2022 – The Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz has started a second solar plant for self-supply of electricity,...

Zona Franca de Cádiz to start container building construction

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) June 20, 2022 – The Andalusian company Díaz Cubero S.A. can now start construction of the Zona Base container building...

Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz implements marketing plan

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) June 15, 2022 – The Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz (ABPC) is implementing a 2022 marketing plan based on face-to-face...

Port of Cádiz receives simultaneous visit of five cruise ships

Today, the Port of Cádiz received the simultaneous visit of five cruise ships with 8,132 people on board, including passengers and crew – May 5, 2022...

Spain: Top 10 container ports Q1 2022

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2022 – In the first three months of 2022, Spain’s state-owned ports handled 46.26 million tons (mt) of cargo...

Spain: State ports cargo traffic Q1 2022 by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 26, 2022 – In the first three months of 2022, Spain’s state-owned ports handled 136.7 million tons of...

Concasa to be awarded new concession in Port of Cádiz

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) April 19, 2022 – The Compañía Gaditana de Contenedores, SL (Concasa) will be awarded the contract to operate the New...

Expected return of passenger traffic between Spain and Morocco has a date

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 12, 2022 – Today the maritime ferry routes between the ports of Algeciras and Tangier-Med and between Tarifa and the...

Spanish ports’ traffic in fruit and vegetables remains stable in 2021

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 5, 2022 – Spain’s state-owned ports handled 12.11 million tons of fruits, vegetables and legumes in 2021, an...

Argentine capital holding company invests in Port of Cádiz

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) March 4, 2022 – PTP Group, an Argentine capital holding company, will invest €16.5 million ($18.17 million) in the...

Spain: State ports handle 46.6 million tons of cargo in January 2022, +9.8%

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 24, 2022 – In the first month of 2022, Spain’s state-owned ports handle a total of 46.67 million tons (mt) of...

Port of the Bay of Cádiz see January cargo traffic up 11%

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2022 – In the month of January, the Port of the Bay of Cádiz recorded 484,863 tons of cargo, growth of 11%...

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