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.
Strait of Gibraltar line passenger traffic falls in Jan-Oct 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – The maritime line of the Strait of Gibraltar between the ports of Ceuta and Algeciras exceeded 1,600,000...
Alicante port expects 3% cargo traffic rise in 2017
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Alicante port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Alicante) expects its cargo traffic to rise by 3% in 2017,...
Valencia port calls tender for waste processing plant construction
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Spanish state gazette Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) has published an announcement by Valencia port...
Tenerife port calls tender for fuel pipe replacement
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Santa Cruz de Tenerife) has called a tender for a €2.5...
Ceuta port handles ten cruise calls in Jan-Oct 2017
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Ceuta port handled ten cruise calls in the first ten months of 2017, down from 16 in the like period of last...
Rail Transport Service of ValenciaportPCS implementation starts
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – The implementation of the Rail Transport Service of ValenciaportPCS is complete in the import process...
EC to provide funding for MoS project of Civitavecchia, Barcelona ports
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) has said it will provide co-financing for the “BClink: MOS for the...
Avilés port approves €990,000 capital hike of ZALIA
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Avilés port authorty (Autoridad Portuaria de Avilés) approved a €990,000 ($1.2 million) capital...
Pasaia port to handle 3 million tonnes of cargo in Jan-Nov 2017
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Pasaia port expects its cargo traffic in 2017 to stand at 3 million tonnes, or around half of its total...
Santander Coated Solutions to start expansion of factory in March 2018
Santander, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Spanish company Santander Coated Solutions, a subsidiary of Network Steel Resources, plans to launch the...
Barcelona gets award port for developing Morocco’s trade links to Europe
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – The Spanish Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tangier (CECIT) has recognised the port of Barcelona for...
Spanish dry port tmZ receives first container of regular line to China
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – Spanish dry port Terminal Marítima de Zaragoza (tmZ) said it has received the first container of the...
Noatum Port Holdings – November 2017 container terminal statistics
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – Noatum Port Holdings, operated by Cosco Shipping Ports Limited of China, has reported November 2017...
Barcelona port’s BEST terminal hits new traffic record
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Barcelona Europe South Terminal (BEST), operated by Hutchison Port Holdings Limited (HPH), has once again...
Cádiz port awards concession of new container terminal to Spain’s Concasa
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de la Bahía de Cádiz) has given the green light to a concession...
Castellón port launches online customer service
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Castellón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) has launched a new service of customer...
Gandía port cargo traffic declines in Jan-Nov 2017
Gandía, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Gandía port handled 324,790 tonnes of cargo in the first eleven months of 2017, down 1.44% on the year. The...