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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.

Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva meets with Ornella Chacón, president of Puertos del Estado

Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva (APH – Port Authority of Huelva), José Luis...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado to prepare new long-term strategy for the port sector

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado plans to take the first steps in defining the new...

Hamilton will invest more than €12 million in the ports of Las Palmas and Tenerife

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) September 5, 2018 – Management from Transcoma Shipping and Hamilton & Cia have presented a €12...

A Coruña port opposes Valencia’s debt write-off

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) September 4, 2018 – The decision of the Spanish government to write off a €350 million ($404.72 million) debt of the...

Port Authority of the Balearic Islands (APB) joins the Samoa project

Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Balears (APB – Port Authority of the Balearic Islands) is to...

Spanish Court dismisses accusations against former Las Palmas port president

Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – The Spanish Court has dismissed the demand of national ports agency Puertos del Estado against the former...

Spain’s Puertos del Estado names new managers

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 25, 2018 – The Governing Council of Spanish ports agency Puertos del Estado has approved a new management structure of the...

Vilagarcía port sets up Board of Navigation and Port of Vilagarcia de Arousa

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – Vilagarcía port has established the Board of Navigation and Port of Vilagarcia de Arousa, composed of 32...

Puertos del Estado new president unformally enters office

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 12, 2018 – The new president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Ornella Chacón, named on Friday by the...

Puertos del Estado new president informally enters office

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 12, 2018 – The new president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Ornella Chacón, named on Friday by the...

Spain names president of Puertos del Estado

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 9, 2018 – Spanish Council of Ministers approved the appointment of María Ornella Chacón as the new president of national...

Spain’s government dismisses national ports agency’s president José Llorca

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2018 – Spain’s government has announced a decision to dismiss the president of national ports agency Puertos del...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – May 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports MONTH 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

A Coruña port authority approves 2017 financials

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña (APC – A Coruña Port Authority) has approved the financials...

US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx visits Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 – US Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, has visited to the port of Valencia. He was accompanied on...

Tarragona port acquires land to build the largest intermodal terminal in Spain

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Port de Tarragona has acquired 150,000 m² in Ciudad del Transporte-Puerta Centro to develop an...

Avilés port joins Samoa project

Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Avilés port reinforces its digitisation strategy by joining the second edition of the port authority’s...

Spain’s Anesco wishes to participate in development of port business plans

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Spanish employer organisation of the stowage sector Anesco (Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras) has...

Rise of protectionism to affect negatively Spanish ports

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 31, 2018 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Jose Llorca, affirmed that the commercial...

Gijón port participates in BreakBulk fair

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) is present at the BreakBulk fair in Bremen, Germany, one of...

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