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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 hosts SIMPLE innovation event

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 18, 2019 – Last Friday, Puertos del Estado (state-owned ports agency) hosted the first milestone event of the SIMPLE...

Ceuta proposes €3.5 million port security investment

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) July 12, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, the state-owned company responsible for the management of state-owned...

Bilbao Port Lab inaugurated – a port hub for innovation and research

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 10, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao) has inaugurated Bilbao Port Lab, its own...

Vigo port drafts business plan for 2020

Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 28, 2019 – Vigo port authority has approved the initial proposal of the 2020 Business Plan that needs to be ratified by...

Spain stays committed to developing Barcelona port’s infrastructure

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 13, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, met today with the president of the port of...

Puertos del Estado and MedCruise to improve the sustainability of maritime passenger transport

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) June 12, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, has met with the president of MedCruise, Airam...

President of Puertos del Estado supports Valenciaport’s investment and future plans

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 9, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado (PdE) , Salvador de la Encina, has shown his support for the projects...

Puertos del Estado to support Cádiz port developments

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, has committed to Teófila Martínez, president of...

Cádiz port asks Puertos del Estado to streamline processes

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2019 – Cádiz port authority’s president Teófila Martínez has met with the president of Spanish national ports...

Las Palmas port handles 5% of Spain’s trade with Africa

Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – Las Palmas port handles just under 5% of all cargo traffic that passes through Spanish ports to or from...

Spain signs collective labour agreement for port workers

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador De la Encina, has met with union representatives to sign the III...

Cádiz port advances in container terminal construction project

Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) May 28, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz (APBC – Port Authority of Cadiz) took a new step in the...

Ceuta port to introduce measures to attract container transshipment

Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) May 20, 2019 – Ceuta port plans to shortly launch a package of measures to encourage and capture transshipment of containers,...

Bilbao port to launch own innovation centre

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) May 7, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao (APB – Port Authority of Bilbao) is preparing to establish its own innovation...

Puertos del Estado to establish HQ of Galician unit of business accelerator in Vigo

Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 28, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has chosen Vigo to establish the Galicia regional...

Spain’s CCOO calls off ports strike scheduled for April 26

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 25, 2019 – Spanish trade union CCOO (Confederacion Sindical de Comisiones Obreras) has called off the strike...

Puertos del Estado president opens CORE LNGas hive project conference

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 24, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina and the president...

Puertos del Estado and SPC Spain analyze measures to boost short sea shipping and motorways of the sea

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 23, 2019 – The president of Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, has had a productive meeting with a delegation...

Algeciras port to host III Conference of CORE LNGas Project Hive project

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, accompanied by the...

Puertos del Estado approves sale of Naval Gijón shipyards by Gijón port

Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2019 – Gijón port authority’s board of directors has received the approval of the national ports agency Puertos...

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