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Last year, Bahía de Bizkaia Gas (BBG), located in the Port of Bilbao’s industrial zone, regasified nearly 19% of the liquefied natural gas introduced into the Spanish gas system and contributed 11% of all the gas consumed.

As is usual, the Port Authority of Bilbao is again taking part in this year’s Sinaval Eurofishing Fair being held at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre from 16 to 18 April.

The Port of Bilbao Cruise Terminal at Getxo expects to receive 46 cruise vessels this year, which the Port of Bilbao Authority considers to be positive “since, in spite of the present economic situation, we still maintain a figure of nearly 50 calls”. The number of passengers will be about 55,000.

On 19 March, Brittany Ferries launched a weekly service between the British port of Poole and Bilbao. The new line is for goods with accompanied lorries, although non-accompanied trailers / freight is also transported. The 165-metre long Cotentin operates the service, which sails from Poole on Tuesdays and from Bilbao on Wednesdays.

In April, MacAndrews, a company belonging to the CMA-CGM shipping group, is reinforcing its present European 45-foot container refrigerated multimodal service by setting up a refrigerated train service that will link Murcia with Bilbao.

Traffic in the Port of Bilbao is starting to show signs of recovery after the negative close to 2012. In the first two months of this year, goods traffic has increased by 10% with regard to the same period in the previous year, and stands at 4.8 million tonnes.

For yet one more year container traffic at the Port of Bilbao reached a record high of 610,131 TEUs.

Shipowners Finnlines, belonging to the Grimaldi Group and represented in Spain by shipping agents Toro y Betolaza, have included the German port of Rostock on their regular weekly import route between Bilbao and Saint Petersburg

The Bilbao Port Authority presented its telematics services as a support to its strategy for the simplification and facilitation of processes for business development to over 250 participants at the e-maritime conference held in Brussels at the end of November. The Conference was organised by the European Union with a view to debating […]