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Puertos del Estado

Puertos del Estado is a Spanish, state-owned organisation responsible for the management of state-owned ports. The company executes the port policy of the government and coordinates and controls the efficiency of the port system, made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports of general interest. Puertos del Estado is answerable to the Ministry of Public Works that is responsible for implementing the government’s port policy.

Puertos del Estado, Baleària to discuss relaunch of Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea 

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, and the commercial and...

Puertos del Estado expects port cargo traffic to rise to 530 million tonnes in 2017

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said he expects...

Cádiz port authority to take part in Fruit Attraction together with Gades-Port

Cádiz, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz) and the association for the promotion of the...

Puertos del Estado president shares Spanish cruise sector experience in Latin America

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has recently given a...

Puertos del Estado says Seville port does not need 16 metres draft

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca has said that Seville port...

Puertos del Estado president says docking labour contract should meet rules

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) September 15, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado’s president Jose Llorca Ortega has warned trade...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado to propose reduction of wharfage dues

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado will propose a reduction the wharfage dues by 10% in...

21 Spanish ports to participate in Seatrade Europe

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – The 21 port authorities that are under the management of Spanish national agency Puertos del Estado,...

Puertos del Estado authorises additional €5.6 million investment in Castellón port

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Spanish state ports agency Puertos del Estado has authorised the modification of the investment plan...

Puertos del Estado to sell 51% stake in Portel capital

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado has launched a process to sell its 51% stake in the capital...

Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...

Spain considers subsidies for relaunching Gijón-Saint Nazaire MoS

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – The president of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said that the costs for operators...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado takes part in conference on future of ports

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, was the guest at the recent...

Bilbao port to profit from Variante Sur railway project

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that the construction...

Marín port extends tugboat fleet

Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Marín port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Marín) has given the green light to the usage of the “A....

Puertos del Estado supports Cádiz port’s acquisition plan

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – The president of Spanish port agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has assured that the agency will include...

Entrepreneur withdraws from project for reconstruction of Gijón port building

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2017 – Spanish entrepreneur Nacho Santiago Pereiras said he has withdrawn from the project for transforming the old...

Cádiz port mulls over acquisition of land plot in Puerto Real

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Cádiz) is studying the possibility of acquiring a land plot of...

Barcelona port hosts presentation of CORE LNGas hive results

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 23, 2017 – Barcelona port hosted June 22 the presentation of the first results of the European project CORE LNGas hive...

Only 27.8% of dockworkers participate in strike on Spanish ports on June 21

Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) June 21, 2017 – The participation of dockworkers in the strike of stevedores on June 21 has fallen to 27.8% from 97-%100% in...

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