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.
Dockworkers block Catalan ports on October 3
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Catalan stevedores have agreed this afternoon to join the general strike called on October 3 in Catalonia....
Tarragona port eyes improvement of relations with Brazil
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 1, 2017 – The president of the Brazil-Catalonia Chamber of Commerce (CCBC), Javier Mirallas, and its director,...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – July 2017 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports July 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...
Spain’s Sermaco Logistic launches repair workshops in Tarragona, Castellón, Sagunto
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Spanish company Sermaco Logistic Integral S.L., a company specialised in integral services to the...
Tarragona port tenders access system maintenance contract
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2017 – Tarragona port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tarragona) has tendered the contract for the maintenance...
Tarragona port’s cattle exports surge in second half of August
Tarragona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 –Â Tarragona port has significantly increased the exports of live animals, especially lambs, to the...
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...