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Puertos del Estado

Puertos del Estado is a Spanish, state-owned organisation responsible for the management of state-owned ports. The company executes the port policy of the government and coordinates and controls the efficiency of the port system, made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports of general interest. Puertos del Estado is answerable to the Ministry of Public Works that is responsible for implementing the government’s port policy.

Spain’s Puertos del Estado announces reorganisation

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2020 – The Governing Council of the Public Authority Puertos del Estado (PdE), meeting for the first time under the...

Spanish state ports moved 174.8 million tons in first four months of the year

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) June 5, 2020 – Puertos del Estado, the organisation responsible for the management of 46 state-owned ports, has reported...

Spain’s leading ports suffer reduced traffic in April 2020

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) June 3, 2020 – State-owned Puertos del Estado has reported April 2020 cargo statistics for ports, which shows that the...

Spain: Total port traffic Q1 2020 by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) May 6, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has published port authority cargo numbers for January-March 2020, showing that total...

Puertos del Estado takes measures due to virus

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – Puertos del Estado has carried out a review of the revenue of the state port system in order to help the...

Adif, Puertos del Estado and Seville port sign amendment regarding railway

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) April 29, 2020 – The president of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera Posada, the president of Puertos del Estado, Francisco Toledo...

Puertos del Estado publishes guidelines for pilotage, stevedoring and port community

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has produced four documents because of the global emergence of COVID-19 to support...

Puertos del Estado distributes second batch of masks to maritime sector

The shipment of 840,000 units completes the allocation of 1.1 million decreed in Order TMA / 263/2020, of March 20, of MITMA. Port authorities, SASEMAR and the...

Algeciras port sees positive January 2020 traffic

Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 9, 2020 – Puertos del Estado, the state-owned organisation responsible for the management of state-owned ports, has...

Project for rail access to La Cabezuela proceeds

Cadiz, Spain (Ports Europe) December 20, 2019 – With the beginning of the works process, the rail access to the La Cabezuela-Puerto Real dock is now in...

Valenciaport bets on the use of alternative fuels to reduce its emissions

Francesc Sánchez, general director of the APV, explained the actions that Valenciaport is developing to promote this type of fuel during the opening of the...

Puertos del Estado meets Accenture to discuss 5G

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) November 15, 2019 – President of Puertos del  Estado, Salvador de la Encina and head of the Cabinet, Ana María García,...

Puertos del Estado reports September 2019 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) November 6, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports September 2019 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics...

Spain’s state-owned ports handled 428 million tons Jan-Sept 2019

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) November 6, 2019 – In the first nine months of 2019, the 46 state-owned ports handled 428,124,835 tons, up 2.2% over the...

Seville and Puertos del Estado agree 2020 Business Plan for port

Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Sevilla (APS – Port Authority of Seville) and the state port management...

Huelva port agrees port business plan for 2020 with Puertos del Estado

Huelva, Spain (PortSEurope) October 28, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Huelva (APH – Port Authority of Huelva) and Puertos del Estado, the state...

Green light for the 2020 Business Plan of the Port Authority of Valencia

The document has been agreed with Puertos del Estado and contemplates the most important strategic investment, personnel and sustainability decisions for next...

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