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.
Boluda acquires Tenerife container terminal operator Capsa
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – Spanish company Boluda Corporación Marítima has acquired Compañía Auxiliar del Puerto (Capsa), an...
Cadiz economic mission visits Morocco
Casablanca, Morocco (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – About twenty companies and institutions from the province of Cadiz (southern Spain) are visiting...
Kukla España launches wine export service from Spain
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Kukla España, the Spanish subsidiary of German multimodal logistic operator Robert Kukla GmbH, has taken...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises 0.5% in Jan-Aug 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The influx of cruise passengers to Spanish ports in the first eight months of the year remained at...
Ferrol port cargo traffic rises 12.3% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Ferrol port handled a total of 10.2 million tonnes of cargo in the first nine months of 2017, up 12.27%...
Spain’s Lacisa expands facility at Barcelona port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Spanish company Lavadero de Cisternas, SA (Lacisa) opened on October 6 the extension of its...
Gas Natural Fenosa to relocate head office from Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – Last Friday, Gas Natural Fenosa announced that is to move its registered office from Barcelona to...
JSV Logistic’s shortsea route offers new opportunities to Мálaga port
Мálaga, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – JSV Logistic S.L. has been operating the Short Sea Shipping line that links Мálaga port with the Canary...
Tenerife expects record-high cruise traffic in 2018
Tenerife, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Tenerife port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Tenerife) expects to break records in cruise traffic during...
Bilbao port tenders dock construction project
Bilbao, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – Bilbao port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Bilbao) has called a tender for the design of a dock at the...
Puertos del Estado president shares Spanish cruise sector experience in Latin America
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has recently given a...
Barcelona port expects 119 cruise ships by Nov 5
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – A total of 119 cruise ships are scheduled to call at Barcelona port in the period between October 6 and...
Bags & Go relies on Barcelona cruise port
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Spanish company Bags & Go is relying on the largest cruise port in Europe, that of Barcelona, to boost...
Finland’s Containerships launches line linking Barcelona port to Algeria, Turkey
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Finnish shipping group Containerships has launched a regular service connecting Barcelona port with Algeria...
Valencia port needs good links with Bilbao, Cantabrian coast
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martínez said that the port...
Spain’s Paceco to construct crane for Sines port container terminal operator
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – PSA Sines-Terminais de Contentores S.A., the container terminal operator of Sines port, has ordered the...
AML to launch regular daily line linking Almería port to Morocco’s Nador
Almería, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Shipping company Africa Morocco Link (AML) plans to launch a regular daily passenger and ro-ro line...