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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 government dismisses national ports agency’s president José Llorca

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2018 – Spain’s government has announced a decision to dismiss the president of national ports agency Puertos del...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – May 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports MONTH 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

A Coruña port authority approves 2017 financials

A Coruña, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña (APC – A Coruña Port Authority) has approved the financials...

US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx visits Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 22, 2018 – US Secretary of Transportation, Anthony Foxx, has visited to the port of Valencia. He was accompanied on...

Tarragona port acquires land to build the largest intermodal terminal in Spain

Tarragona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Port de Tarragona has acquired 150,000 m² in Ciudad del Transporte-Puerta Centro to develop an...

Avilés port joins Samoa project

Avilés, Spain (PortSEurope) June 7, 2018 – Avilés port reinforces its digitisation strategy by joining the second edition of the port authority’s...

Spain’s Anesco wishes to participate in development of port business plans

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Spanish employer organisation of the stowage sector Anesco (Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras) has...

Gijón port participates in BreakBulk fair

Gijón, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2018 – Gijón port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón) is present at the BreakBulk fair in Bremen, Germany, one of...

Spanish ports’ cargo traffic with China rises 3.9% in 2017

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2018 – Cargo traffic in Spanish ports with origin or destination in China reached 18.7 million tonnes in 2017, 3.9%...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – March 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) May 5, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports Marc 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – February 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 15, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports February 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

President of Puertos del Estado receives the president of the Port Authority of Cartagena

Cartagena, Spain (Ports Europe) April 9, 2018 – The president of Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has held the first institutional meeting, as managing...

Melilla port president expects environmental impact assessment to be ready in Q3 2018

Melilla, Spain (Ports Europe) April 5, 2018 – Melilla port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Melilla) president Miguel Marín has said that the file for...

Spain’s government, Adif sign deal to co-finance rail line to Punta Langosteira

A Coruña, Spain (Ports Europe) April 3, 2018 – Spain’s prime minister Mariano Rajoy has said that Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado and...

Puertos del Estado reports figures for fish landed at Spanish ports in January 2018

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – The state-owned authority for ports, Puertos del Estado, has reported fish landed by Spanish ports in...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – January 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) March 25, 2018 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports January 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Puertos del Estado to promote Vilagarcía as cruise destination at Seatrade fair Cruise Global

Vilagarcía, Spain (Ports Europe) March 5, 2018 – The promotion of the Vilagarcía port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Vilagarcía) as a cruise...

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