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.
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...
Avilés port looks at wind power industry as business opportunity
Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Avilés port considers the traffic related to the metal and mechanical industry companies active on 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...
Valencia port approves sale of property in Parc Sagunt to Mercadona
Sagunto, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has given the green light to the sale of a land...
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...
Bilbao port to invest €1.9 million in LED lighting
Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) December 4, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) plans to invest about €1.9 million ($2.2 million)...
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...