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The Basque Port of Pasaia occupies a strategic location in Atlantic Europe, close to the French-Spanish border, and boasts direct connections with all trans-European transport routes. Specialising in cars, it has Europe’s only silo with direct access to vessels. Planned extension work will allow the port to provide services for traffic from its highly industrialised hinterland. The port is operated by Autoridad Portuaria de Pasaia (APP – Port Authority of Pasaia). 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 port traffic sets new historical highs in the first half of 2018

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Port traffic continues its upward trend and reaching historic highs, responding to the good...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – July 2018 fish landed by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 10, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports July 2018 fish landed (tonnes) statistics by port...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – July 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 10, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports July 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – June 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports June 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Spanish ports increase handling of new vehicles in 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 25, 2018 – Spanish ports handled about 3.3 million new vehicles in 2017, which represents a growth of 1.2% compared...

Spain may not transfer Pasaia port management to Basque Country

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry has cooled the optimism of the Basque Government in relation to its request...

Spanish government advances in studies of transfer of Pasaia port management to Basque Country

Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – The management of Pasaia port is one of the three subjects whose study is most advanced in the negotiation...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – April 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports April 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Pasaia port’s cargo traffic starts to recover

Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2018 – After a year to forget, the 2018 activity of the port of Pasaia has started to recover. In the first five months...

Pasaia port grants license for liquid waste reception to Sanemar

Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 18, 2018 – Pasaia port authority has granted a new license for the provision of a liquid waste reception services to...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – March 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports Marc 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

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...

Pasaia port’s cargo traffic rises 3% y/y in Q1 2018

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2018 – Pasaia port recorded in the first quarter an annual growth of 3% in the cargo traffic to 717,163 tonnes....

Pasaia port to handle export of train carriages to Amsterdam

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2018 – Pasaia port goes one step further in the logistics of ro-ro cargo of high added value with the start of a new...

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...

Pasaia port cargo traffic rises in February

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) March 12, 2018 – Pasaia port has increased its traffic in February, continuing the good data for January, a month in which the...

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...

Pasaia port cargo traffic rises in January

Pasaia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2018 – The activity of the port of Pasaia rebounded in January, a small relief after closing 2017 with a 13.9%...

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...

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