Spain
Spain (España) is located in Southwest Europe, occupying the Iberian peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; a member of the European Union; by tonnage the leading ports are Algeciras, Barcelona and València. 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.
Galician ports see increased fishing traffic in first seven months of 2018
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Traffic of goods in Galician ports registered a year-on-year increase of 11% at the end of the first...
Barcelona port publishes sustainability report
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 28, 2018 – Barcelona has published the Annual Report of the Sector Sustainability Plan, a document that reflects the...
Spain’s Aragón prefers to use Catalan ports for Mediterranean Corridor links
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Spain’s Aragón regional government has said it prefers to use the Catalan ports for linking the...
Norway’s Höegh celebrates 10th anniversary of Spanish unit at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Norwegian ro-ro company Höegh Autoliners has celebrated the tenth anniversary of the constitution of its...
Cartagena port introduces own code of conduct
Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Cartagena port has introduced its own code of ethics and conduct, in order to regulate ethical practices...
Barcelona hopes to improve its risk prediction system with SAMOA 2
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 24, 2018 – Barcelona port has adhered this summer to SAMOA 2, the second phase of the Meteorological and...
A Coruña port starts loading 22 concrete boxes for export to Aberdeen
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – A Coruña port has launched the process of loading 22 concrete boxes produced in the outer port of Punta...
Spain’s B+Safe installs defibrillators at six yachting ports
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Spanish company B+Safe has installed Connected Operational Defibrillators at the yachting ports of Selva de...
Seville port receives mobile crane for Batán dock
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Seville port has received on board the Wiebke ship the mobile crane with the biggest capacity than it...
Spain’s iContainers expects difficult maritime transport high season this year
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Spanish company iContainers has warned that the high season of maritime transport will be especially hard...
Canary Islands-owned ports passenger traffic rises 5.85% in Q2 2018
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – Regular passenger traffic in ports owned by the government of the Canary Islands reached...
Spain’s Almería port handles 370,000 passengers under OPE
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2018 – About 370,000 passengers have used the port of Almería in the first two months of Operación Paso del...
Valencia port handles 2.3% of OPE traffic in exit phase
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 23, 2018 – Valencia port handled 2.3% of the vehicles included in the exit phase of Operación Paso del Estrecho (OPE)...
Santander port traffic rises 14.3% y/y in H1
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Santander port closed the first half of 2018 with a total traffic of 2,887,024 tonnes, up 14.3% on the...
Huelva port’s infrastructure works generate 990 jobs in H1 2018
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – The number of companies active in the port of Huelva, directly or indirectly, amounted to 106 in the first...
Spain’s government approves road access improvement project to Arrecife cruise pier
Arrecife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Spain’s ecology ministry has approved a concession of a land plot to Arrecife city authorities for...
Luxury cruise traffic increases at Málaga port
Málaga, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – The cruise traffic of Málaga port of has been increasing in recent years, and it is doing so...
Melilla port discusses enhancement of Naviera Armas, Trasmediterránea service
Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Melilla port held meetings with representatives of shipping companies Naviera Armas SA...
Avilés port to incur €2.8 million loss due to environmental protection measures
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) August 22, 2018 – Avilés port is expected to incur losses if the new dredging conditions proposed by the Directorate of...
Tenerife port books record-high cruise traffic in 2017-18 season
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Port Authority of Tenerife) closed the 2017-2018...