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Tarragona

Tarragona is a port in Catalonia, Northeast Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. The port consists of a commercial and industrial port, several marinas, Tarragona Cruise Port and a fishing port. It is managed by Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona (APT – Port Authority of Tarragona). 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.

Agricultural entrepreneurs visit Tarragona port

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2017 – A group of 25 agricultural entrepreneurs from the Maials area have visited Tarragona port, invited by...

Spanish ports to attend Seatrade Europe Hamburg Fair

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Around 30 companies, including port authorities and service and product providers, will unite at...

Spain: 3.6 million cruise passengers in the first six months of 2017

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2017 – Cruise passenger traffic through Spanish ports has once again set a new historic record in the first...

Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...

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

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports June 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 53.5% y/y in June

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Cargo traffic at Tarragona port rose by 53.53% on the year in June. The terminals of Tarragona reached 2.61...

Tarragona port approves specifications for ship consignment services

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Tarragona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona) has approved the specification of particular...

Costa Cruises to use Tarragona as home port next year

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Costa Cruises has reaffirmed its commitment to Tarragona port which will become a home port for the...

Tarragona port breaks paper traffic records

Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Tarragona port has broken records in paper traffic. The Chinese-flagged vessel Saga Jandaia, which docked...

Barcelona and Valencia join forces over Mediterranean Corridor

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 1, 2017 – The Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the Mayor of Valencia, Joan Ribó, met last month to sign a joint...

DP reports improved H1 2017 TEU traffic

Dubai, UAE (Ports Europe) 25 July 25, 2017 – DP World Limited handled 34.0 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of...

Tarragona port exports one million heads of cattle in five years

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – Tarragona port has reached one million head of cattle of export since this traffic began five years ago. In...

Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 5.2% y/y in Jan-May 2017

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Tarragona port handled a total of 13.44 million tonnes of cargo in the first five months of 2017, an increase...

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

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports May 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Tarragona port to host conference on Mediterranean Corridor

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – Tarragona port will host a meeting to analyse the connections of the harbour to the Mediterranean Corridor on...

Spain’s Sermaco participates in Mediterranean Corridor construction

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – Spanish company Sermaco SLI Servicios Marítimos participates in the works of the Mediterranean Corridor in...

TEN-T – Connecting Europe – Core network corridors

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Networks) envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways,...

DP World starts offering Tarragona-Genoa regular line

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2017 – DP World has started offering a regular shipping line between Spain’s Tarragona and Italy’s Genoa...

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

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports April 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Tarragona port president confident of standard-gauge rail connection project

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 8, 2017 – The president of Tarragona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona), Josep Andreu, is confident that...

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