The shipping platform

Location: Barcelona is situated approximately 500km E of Madrid and is the largest Spanish port on the Mediterranean coast. General overview: The port is formed by breakwaters, the main breakwater running N to S with a total length of over 4,230m. This provides protection against SE'ly gales. The secondary breakwater runs E to W and is about 510m in length. The water area of the harbour is over 18,000,000m² and the total length of quayage is over 22km. Barcelona is also a regular port of call for cruise ships. Besides Ferry and Cruise terminals there are also several speciailised terminals: Container and multiporpose, Car, Coffee and cocoa, Liquid bulk, Dry bulk. The main port is divided into the Old Port (Port Vell), the Logistics Port (Barcelona Free Port), and the Commercial Port. Port Vell includes a fishing port, a ferry station, cruise landing area, and yacht harbours. There are 2 harbours located nearby that mainly berth yachts. They are the Port Olimpic, which hosted some events of the Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, and the Port Forum Sant Adria. The existing commercial terminal line in Barcelona Port has a total length of 12.1 kilometers, a frontal water depth of 8-14 meters, and a water area of ​​300 hectares. The main berths in the port area are: GENERAL CARGO terminal (grocery), 3 berths, coastline length of 803 meters, maximum water depth of 14 meters; BULK CARGO terminal (bulk cargo), 6 berths, coastline length of 1263 meters, maximum water depth is 13.1 Meters; CONTAINER terminal (container), 5 berths, coastline length of 1440 meters, maximum water depth of 14 meters; OIL QUAY terminal (oil terminal), 3 berths, coastline length of 652 meters, maximum water depth of 12 meters. To the south of the port is the loading and unloading of oil, natural gas, containers, and cement. The oil terminal is located to the west of the southern entrance. There are a crude oil jetty extending from the land bank to the southeast, and a refined oil and liquefied natural gas jetty extending from the south to the north. There are 12 berths in total, and the maximum 60,000-ton ships can be berthed. The land bank to the west of the refined oil and natural gas jetty is a container terminal . The terminal line is 1,100 meters, and there are 6 35-45 tons loading and unloading bridges. The terminal area is 30 hectares and the warehouse is 15480 TEUs. It is the main container terminal in Barcelona. To the north of the container terminal and to the south of the crude oil jetty are the cement export and soybean re-export terminals. The terminal line is 600 meters long. The central jetty of the port of Barcelona is the bulk cargo port area of ​​the port. The three south jetties are unloading docks for coal, scrap steel, steel, etc., and the coal storage yard is 60,000 tons; the north jetty is a grain and feed dock. There are 3 grain depots on the dock. , With a capacity of 65,000 tons. The northern part of the port is the general cargo passenger port area of ​​Barcelona's inner port. There are 80-90 berths in the port, with an annual throughput of about 18 million tons, of which more than one-third of general cargo, containers, making it the largest general cargo port in Spain. It is one of the ten largest container throughput ports on the Mediterranean coast. The port’s wharf is the largest and reliable ship with 80,000 deadweight tons, the open-air storage yard area is about 45,000 square metres, the grain storage capacity is about 187,000 tons, and the oil depot has a storage capacity of 35 cubic meters. The port's free trade zone covers an area of ​​5,000 square meters. There are about 7,000 import and export ships in Barcelona every year, more than 250 international routes, and complete city buses and subway facilities. The transportation of goods between Bar Harbor and the European Community countries is mainly by trucks. Catalonia has the densest and most modern road network in Spain, and it takes only one and a half hours from Bar Harbor to the French border. The three passenger terminals Terminal Drassanes, Terminal Ferry Barcelona and Grimaldi Terminal Barcelona are located in Port Vell. While Baleària and Trasmediterránea operate connections to the Balearic Islands, the companies Grimaldi Lines and Grandi Navi Veloci serve destinations in Italy and Morocco. Imports: Natural gas, oil products, soya beans, cereals, coal, iron and steel products. Exports: Cement, clinker, potash, packaged chemicals, iron and steel. Traffic figures: Approx 8,000 vessels handling 44,300,000t of cargo, 2,033,500TEU, and over 3,800,000 cruise passengers annually. Load line zone: Summer. Max size: Draught 16.0m. Largest vessels handled: LOA: 399 m, draught: 15.3 m, deadweight: 228,406 t.