Puertos del Estado president opens CORE LNGas hive project conference
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina and the president of…
Puertos del Estado reaches agreement on collective labour contract
Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) April 24, 2019 – Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado has said that an agreement has been reached with trade unions…
Algeciras port to host III Conference of CORE LNGas Project Hive project
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 22, 2019 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, Salvador de la Encina, accompanied by the general…
Spain’s competition watchdog launches study on national port network
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 18, 2019 – Spain's competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched a study on the…
Trade unions call off strike at Spanish ports
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 16, 2019 – Spanish trade unions CCOO, UGT and CIG have called off the 24-hour port strike scheduled for April 17,…
Spanish trade union CCOO calls port workers strike on April 17
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) April 11, 2019 – Spanish trade union CC OO union has called a strike of 21 hours of port workers on April…
Puertos del Estado reports February 2019 cargo figures by port authority
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 10, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port authority. Port…
Vopak to sell terminals in Algeciras, Amsterdam and Hamburg to First State Investments
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 8, 2019 - Royal Vopak, a leading Dutch independent tank storage company, has announced an agreement on the sale of its…
Spain’s Anesco, Puertos del Estado ask for support for reform of stowage sector
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 3, 2019 – Spanish stevedoring companies association Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (Anesco) and national ports agency Puertos del Estado have…
Gibraltar Port Authority attends Argus Bunker Fuels Conference in Algeciras
Gibraltar (PortSEurope) April 1, 2019 - John Ghio, the Deputy Captain of the Gibraltar Port Authority, has attended the Argus Bunker Fuels Conference held in…
Spanish State Gazette publishes law reforming stevedoring sector
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) April 1, 2019 – The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published the royal decree law approved by the government that completes the liberalisation of…
Verdemar accuses Algeciras port of causing coastline loss in Bay of Algeciras
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) April 1, 2019 – Spanish environmentalist organisation Verdemar Ecologistas en Acción has filed a complaint with Spain's Prosecution Office to investigate the responsibility…
Spain approves aid to longshoremen including in downsizing schemes
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) March 29, 2019 – Spain's government has approved the Royal Decree-Law which develops the reform of the stowage sector approved almost two years…
APM Terminals Algeciras breaks container ship handling speed record
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) March 26, 2019 – APM Terminals in the port of Algeciras has broken the cargo handling speed record on a container vessel, by…
Spain to adopt EU Ports regulation
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) March 26, 2019 - On March 24, 2020, EU Regulation 2017/352 will come into force by which a framework for the provision…
Docks Logistics obtains Halal Certification in Algeciras port
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) March 26, 2019 - Docks Logistics has received Halal Certification for the facilities it manages in the port of Algeciras. Docks, which specialises…
ANESCO calls for reduction of port fees in Spain
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) March 6, 2019 – Spain's Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras (ANESCO – Spanish National Association of Stevedoring Companies) has called for a reduction…
CMA CGM to operate route linking Algeciras to Morocco as of June
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) February 27, 2019 – French shipping company CMA CGM has included the port Algeciras on its Morocco-Spain route from June, which is a…
APM Terminals Algeciras beats container operations record
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) February 26, 2019 – APM Terminals' container terminal in Algeciras port broke a new record in 2018 by registering a total of 217,000…
Puertos del Estado to support greenhouse gas emissions reduction
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) February 25, 2019 – Spain's national ports agency Puertos del Estado has signed a cooperation contract for the reduction of greenhouse gas…