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.
Santander port incurs €1.1 million cost for drawbridge maintenance in 2017
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Building the drawbridge of Raos terminal at Santander port cost €13 million ($16 million) in 2008. Now,...
Arrecife port container terminal operator to make €2 million investment
Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The company that manages the container terminal of the port of Arrecife is making an...
Las Palmas port authority to approve various infrastructure projects this week
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The board of directors of Las Palmas port authority will meet on April 14 to discuss several major...
Ecologists protest against cruise tourism in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Ecologists and neighbourhood representatives saw off on April 7 the largest tourist cruise in the world, the...
Marín port container terminal operator to invest €700,000 in warehouse construction
Marín, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – The concessionary company of the container terminal of the port of Marín that has managed to boost to...
Tenerife ports’ container traffic rises 66% y/y in Jan-Feb 2018
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Container traffic in the ports of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife increased by 66% on the year...
Vigo port to agree route of rail line to Bouzas terminal with Adif
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Crucial progress has been made in the train connection with the vehicle terminal of the Bouzas terminal of Vigo...
Cilsa adheres to the UN Global Compact for business sustainability
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2018 – Cilsa SA, the company that manages the intermodal logistics platform, ZAL, of Barcelona port, has...
Maersk Line online platform rolled out to China-based customers in Ningbo, Qingdao and Shanghai exporting to Mediterranean ports
Beijing, China (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – Maersk Line is to expand its online platform ship.maerskline.com to cover more major trades, covering...
Vigo port to host training courses of FAO
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – Vigo port will host the “Training Hub” of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)...
A Coruña’s outer harbour carries out project cargo operation
A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The Punta Langosteira outer port of A Coruña hosted the loading of a set of special metallic structures,...
Gijón port opens 2018 cruise season
Gijón, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The “Britannia” cruise ship of shipping company P&O Cruises, called on April 3 in the north...
Cruise industry invest $1 billion in new technologies, cleaner fuels
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The cruise industry has been betting for years on investing in technologies with a strong environmental...
Dachser launches warehouses in Spain’s Logroño, Zaragoza
Zaragoza, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – Within the strategy of expansion of its network in Iberia, German logistics company, Dachser Group SE &...
Balearic Islands port authority rejects fees for parking lot at La Savina harbour
La Savina, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The Balearic Islands port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Baleares) has twice rejected management...
Avilés port increased fishing between January and February by 5.3%
Avilés, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – Avilés port increased fishing between January and February by 5.3%, compared to the like period of last year,...
Two investments will change the services offered by the Port of Arrecife
Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The Board of Directors of Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas (APP – Port Authority of Las...