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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 calls tender for analysis of LNG bunkering demand

Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 –Spanish official state gazette (BOE) published a tender by ports agency Puertos del Estado for the contracting of...

Valencia port handles 13% of Spanish port traffic with South America

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 2, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) participates in Intermodal South America as part...

Puertos del Estado participates at Intermodal South America

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – The stand of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado at Intermodal South America in Brazil,...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado to book 20% decline in 2017 profit

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 4, 2017 – State-owned Spanish port agency Puertos del Estado expects its profit for 2017 to stand at €184.4 million...

Puertos del Estado – January 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 29, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports January 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by...

Spanish ports total cargo traffic rises 6.3% in January

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) March 22, 2017 – Spanish ports increased by 6.32% the cargo traffic handled in January, a month before the labour conflict...

Spanish northern ports presidents meet to discuss cooperation, intermodality

Gijon, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Competition and collaboration, competitiveness and efficiency, coordination and planning, are some of the...

Puertos del Estado president says access construction to Punta Langosteira is essential

A Coruna, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The access to the Punta Langosteira, the outer harbour of A Coruna port, is “a pending...

Almeria mayor, Puertos del Estado president discuss railway line construction project

Almeria, Spain (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Almeria mayor Ramon Fernandez-Pacheco held a meeting with the president of Spanish national port agency...

Vigo port foresees €14 million investment in 2017

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) January 11, 2017 – Vigo port foresees investments of more than €14 million ($14.7 million) during this year, the port authority...

Barcelona remains main contributor to Interport Compensation Fund

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – Barcelona port remains the main contributor to the Spanish port system. According to data released by the...

Spanish government not to open Puertos del Estado to private capital

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Ministry of Public Works does not contemplate opening the capital of Spanish national ports agency...

Puertos del Estado net profit rises 8% Y/Y in 2016

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, managed by the Public Works Ministry, booked a net profit...

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