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.
Spain: Puertos del Estado – October 2017 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports October cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
Gijón port to handle 17 cruise calls next year
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Gijón port has scheduled for next year a total of 17 cruise calls for the period between April and...
Cartagena relaunches services after windstorm in morning of Dec 11
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Cartagena port has restored all its services after the windstorm at the morning of December 11, although...
Baleària to start operating at Valencia, Sagunto, Gandía ports on Dec 14
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. plans to start providing ferry and cruise passenger...
Las Palmas port calls tender for road construction at Reina Sofía dock
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas) has called a tender for the construction of...
Transcont CV to relocate HQ to Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Valencia regional association of self-employed persons in the container traffic sector Transcont CV...
Pasaia port joins Cruise Europe association
Pasaia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – Pasaia port has become a member of association Cruise Europe, which brings together some 100 ports in the...
Melilla port awards contract for installation of safety lighting
Melilla, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Spanish government has awarded a €261,238 ($307,389) contract for the installation of safety lighting at...
Almería port cruise traffic declines in 2017
Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Almería port saw the positive trend in the cruise segment, kept since 2014, broken this year. With the...
Tenerife port to handle seven cruise ships in three days
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Tenerife port will handle a total of seven cruise ships with 13,300 passengers and 3,760 crew members on...
Spanish Minister of Public Works highlighted the ports’ contribution to territorial cohesion
Madrid, Spain, December 1, 2017 01-12-2017 (Ministry of Public Works). Iñigo de la Serna, Minister of Public Works, accompanied by José Llorca, President of...
Medway to launch regular freight rail line connecting Lisbon to Córdoba
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Portuguese freight rail operator Medway plans to launch a regular line connecting Lisbon to the Spanish...
Spain’s Seat to launch automated logistics centre in 2018
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Spanish carmaker Seat has started the construction of a smart logistics centre that will be officially...
Spain’s Mercazaragoza consolidates its leadership
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Spanish freight railway terminal tmZ, operated by Mercazaragoza, has consolidated its position as the...
Baleària still interested in Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea
Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. is still interested in the relaunch of the Motorway of...
Ferrol port cargo traffic rises in Jan-Nov 2017
Ferrol, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Ferrol port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Ferrol-San Cibrao) handled 12.2 million tonnes of cargo in the...
Brazil considers Las Palmas port to be competitive export platform
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Brazil considers Spain’s Las Palmas port to be a flexible and competitive platform for the export of...