Today we continue our discussion with Mr. J. Javier López, Head of Commercial Division of the Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA), started in the previous publication. The name of Algeciras comes from Arabic and means “the green island”, or Isla Verde in Spanish, referring to the small island that lies in the bay, […]
The Congress, the lower house of Spain’s Parliament, has approved today the new law on liberalization of the country’s dock labour system suggested by the government. This is the second attempt to reform the stevedoring sector in order to comply with the judgement of the European Court of Justice to bring it in line with […]
Spanish ports are going through some hard times this year. Having finished 2016 on a positive note, their performance has been significantly compromised in February and March by the dockworkers’ strike, vastly announced but hardly taken place, still having urged some shipping lines to implement contingency plans and re-route their vessels to alternative ports in […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced on Wednesday an allocation of a loan in the amount of EUR 75 mln to ZAL Port (Zona d’Activitats Logístiques), the logistics platform of the Port of Barcelona. The loan is backed by the guarantee of the Investment Plan for Europe, the so-called “Juncker Plan”, and was made possible with […]
Maersk Line has estimated that 10 weeks of dockworkers conflict in Spanish ports in February-March 2017 resulted in EUR 12 mln of direct operating costs for the company, not including the loss of customers caused by the crisis, informs Spain’s El País quoting the company’s official statement submitted to the country’s government. Once Spanish stevedores […]
The port of Algeciras handled 1 mln TEU in the first quarter of 2017, informs the Port Authority’s press service. The total throughput of Algeciras decreased by 8%, to 23.7 mln tonnes, mostly due to a 10.9% drop in general cargo which makes up over 60% of the port’s traffic (15 mln tonnes). At the […]
Ferrol Container Terminal, Spain, owned by Yilport Holding, has marked its start of operations by receiving the first vessel call earlier this month, informs Yilport. The container vessel Enforcer of the British shipping line MacAndrews specializing in Intra-European multimodal logistics (part of CMA CGM) berthed at the terminal to discharge 90 empty containers and to […]
Barcelona has recorded an exciting growth of 25.3% in its throughput in the first quarter of 2017 y-o-y, the result which was surpassed only once in the port’s history, i.e. in the second quarter of 2008, informs the Port Authority. The throughput of 13.8 mln tons has been achieved due to excellent results in handling […]
Following the start of joint operations of German short sea shipping line OPDR and Spanish Boluda Corporación Marítima in the port of Seville in January 2017, OPDR has announced the launch of a container service connecting the Iberian Peninsula and the United Kingdom. The new weekly Portugal and South Spain service (POSS) connects the English […]
The Port Authority of Algeciras, Spain, has extended the term for submission of bids for constructing and operating the third container terminal at the port until 31 May 2017. Initially, the international public tender launched last August had the bidding deadline on 30 November 2016, but later the deadline was postponed until 31 March 2017 […]
