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.
Vilagarcía port handles cargo worth €956 million in 2016
Vilagarcía, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Vilagarcía port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía) handled cargo with a record-high total...
Marín port cargo traffic rises 11% y/y in Jan-Oct 2017
Marín, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Marín port’s cargo traffic rose by 11% on the year in the first ten months of 2017 to 2.1 million...
Cartagena port handles second largest crane worldwide
Cartagena, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – A tower of 135 metres and capacity to handle 14,000 tonnes. These are the characteristics that make the...
Tarragona port cargo traffic rises 10% y/y in Jan-Oct 2017
Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Tarragona port handled 28.3 million tonnes of cargo in the first ten months of 2017, up 10% on the year....
Huelva port’s intermodality project meets objectives
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Huelva port’s intermodal platform project, co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), has met...
Noatum Container Terminal Valencia joins EU Sauron project
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – Noatum Ports, one of the leading terminal operators in Spain, will be part of the Sauron project with...
Vigo port presents Blue Growth strategy to FAO in Rome
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) president Enrique López Veiga presented the...
A Coruña port keeps positive cargo traffic trend in Jan-Oct 2017
A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – A Coruña port closed the month of October with an increase in traffic, allowing the harbour...
Spanish government to invest €12 million in construction of road access to Castellón port
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to invest €12...
Tenerife port to handle 115,000 cruise passengers in December
Tenerife, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Tenerife port expects to handle 115,000 cruise passengers in December, municipality councillor Alfonso...
Port of Algeciras to host Algeciras Port IT Symposium
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – On December 12, 2017, the port of Algeciras (El Puerto de Algeciras) will host its III Conference on...
Castellón port to accelerate development of rail links
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Castellón port authority’s (Autoridad Portuaria de Castellón) president Francisco Toledo...
Spain’s Progeco gets concession at Vigo port
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Vigo port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vigo) has given the green light to a concession to Spanish...
Aragon’s freight rail transport to ports rises
Zaragoza, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – A total of 70% of the more than 150,000 containers that the Spanish region of Aragon sends to ports are...
Ceuta port to handle tenth cruise call on December 2
Ceuta, Spain (PortSEurope) December 1, 2017 – Ceuta port expects to expand to ten the number of cruise calls this season with the arrival of a ship...
Noatum launches automated access system at Bilbao port
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) November 30, 2017 – Noatum Container Terminal Bilbao officially launched on November 28 a new system of automated access of...
Cádiz port representatives study Barcelona harbour’s urban integration
Cádiz, Spain (PortSEurope) November 30, 2017 – A delegation of representatives of Cádiz port authority (Autoridad Portuaria Bahía de Cádiz), led by its...