HEADING TOWARDS THE FUTURE The Port of Bilbao is progressing in all directions. In logistics capacity, new infrastructures and services, in innovation. Besides its privileged geographical location, it offers modern and functional services with a wide range of maritime services open to all international markets. It has marvellous land and rail connections improving its logistical potential, its intermodalism. We have made constant progress for over 700 years to keep ahead of our users’ require- ments. Over the last 15 years we have been preparing for the future, executing our most important extension and improvement project to date. This project is converting us into one of the biggest European ports of reference. 2 CONTENTS IN THE CENTRE INTERMODAL SUSTAINABLE OF THE ATLANTIC TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT Page 04 Page 06 Page 12 OPERATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL PASSENGER COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL TERMINALS TERMINALS TERMINALS SERVICES SERVICES Page 14 Page 16 Page 20 Page 28 Page 30 RIVER INDUSTRIES AND INVESTMENT MARKETS DIRECT SHIPPING LINES PORT OF BILBAO SHIPYARDS FEEDER SERVICES PLAN PORT COMPANIES Page 36 Page 38 Page 42 Page 43 Page 54 3 BILBAO IN THE CENTRE OF THE ATLANTIC LOCATION 4 IN THE CENTRE OF THE ATLANTIC In the middle of the Bay of Biscay, equidistant between Brest and Finisterre, the Port of Bilbao is central in the European Atlantic. For almost 700 years, this central location has made Bilbao a privileged link with the main ports in both the American continent and the north of Europe. An offer of regular services connects it with 800 ports worldwide. The Port of Bilbao works with all classes of goods and vessels. It is open and operative 24 hours a day, every day of the year. It has no problems of drafts or tides. The Port’s infl uence stretches to the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula and into the south of France - a vast area whose epicentre is in the metropolitan area of Bilbao. Within a 200-kilometre radius 4 million people live, and more than 20 million within 400. In addition, it is an excellent route on the way to the eastern European market. 5 LAND ACCESSES INTERMODAL TRANSPORT 6 HINTERLAND Equidistant between Bordeaux (341 kilometres) and Madrid (396 kilometres), the Port of Bilbao operates inside a hinterland also marked by the towns of Toulouse, (456 kilometres), one of the Burdeos 340 km centres of the European space industry, Oviedo 275 km BILBAO and Zaragoza (304 kilometres), a great Lugo 548 km Santander 90 km Bayona 200 km logistics and industrial platform, and capital Pancorbo of the Ebro Corridor, which links Bilbao to Leon 343 km Alava 65 km Toulouse 460 km Barcelona, with an extension to Madrid. Pamplona 156 km Burgos 160 km Oporto 730 km Logroño 150 km The hinterland area, which extends along Valladolid 295 km the Bay of Biscay and penetrates into Zamora 378 km Huesca 372 km the Castilian plateau, is very dynamic in Salamanca 399 km the economic sense with a GDP growth Zaragoza 304 km Segovia 353 km of over 50% in some cases, and never Lérida 451 km less than 43%. Last year, exports from Ávila 418 km Guadalajara 420 km Barcelona 611 km the hinterland amounted to 16.7 million Madrid 396 km Tarragona 538 km tonnes, while imports were 31 million. Lisboa 930 km Teruel 476 km Cáceres 610 km Toledo 480 km The Port of Bilbao’s extended hinterland, Cuenca 551 km according to the European Union, runs Sines 997 km from the north of Portugal to Barcelona, whose GDP is 284,942 million euros with a 3.76% growth rate. To this must be added the data from the Portuguese area, whose estimated population is 3,667,813 with a GDP of 27,945 million euros, and DryDry PortsPorts also those from the French territories of Aquitaine (GDP 21,658 million euros) and Midi-Pyrénées (52,000 million euros). Twenty-fi ve million people live in this hinterland, which is also distinguished for its cultural dynamism and quality of life. 7 8 INTERMODAL TRANSPORT LAND ACCESSES 02 A growing network of dry ports – a complex with no access to the sea, but with transport infrastructures and set up at multimodal terminals that enable their goods to reach the sea port they are linked to - constitutes an added value for the Port of Bilbao. Besides the sea access of this network, which extends from Bordeaux to Zaragoza, Toulouse and Madrid, the Port of Bilbao is a partner holding in the Dry Port of Azuqueca in the Henares Industrial Estate – a large industrial centre between Madrid and Guadalajara- in the Dry Port of Coslada (Madrid), and in the company promoting the Dry Port of Villafría (Burgos) and in the Dry Port of Jundiz-Vitoria (Alava). Dry port Azuqueca de Henares (Madrid) In 2010, the Port Authority has taken important steps to increase its presence DRY in logistics zones and promote rail transport. On the one hand, the Board of Directors approved the creation of a port-rail logistics terminal at the “El Pra- PORTS do” Industrial Estate in Pancorbo, Burgos. The Port Authority of Bilbao will lead the project, thus guaranteeing that the activities carried out there will be of a logistics nature and will generate traffi c mainly through the Port of Bilbao. A site of almost 500,000 m2 has been acquired. In 2011, together with the development of the zone, the rail con- nection project will be carried out, which will link it with the Madrid-Irun line. It is anticipated to come into operation in 2012. Another agreement reached by the Board of Directors was to increase capital and acquire 43% of Servicios Integrales Vitoria Depot, through which it participates in Jundiz. With this centre, destined to become the future great logistics platform in the Autonomous Basque Community, the Port of Bilbao has a shuttle train. Similarly, the benefi ts of the synergy of Arasur in road transport to and from the Port of Bilbao will be felt. This decision can be classed as part of the entity’s business criteria for investing in companies related to logistics areas of interest for the improvement in providing services in the Port of Bilbao. 9 Paris Paris CONTAINER RAILWAY SERVICES DIRECT CONECTION TO THE Bordeaux FROM THE PORT TO THE MAIN Bordeaux MOTORWAY NETWORK. IBERIAN CARGO CENTRES Marsella Marsella A Coruña A Coruña Gijón Asturias BILBAO San Sebastián Lugo BILBAO Leon Lugo Leon Pancorbo 4 5 Pamplona Vitoria Vigo Vigo 3 Burgos Huesca Burgos Lleida Lleida Ourense Ourense Valladolid Zaragoza Valladolid Zamora Zaragoza Barcelona Barcelona Oporto Segovia Oporto Segovia Salamanca 1 Guadalajara Salamanca 2 Teruel Ávila Madrid Madrid Cuenca Castellón Castellón Cáceres Toledo Cáceres Lisboa Lisboa Albacete Albaceta Ciudad real Badajoz Badajoz Córdoba Alicante Córdoba Alicante Sevilla Huelva Sevilla Huelva Almeria Almeria Malaga Malaga Cádiz Cádiz DRY PORTS LINKED TO THE PORT OF BILBAO THROUGH THE RAILWAY NETWORK 1 Azuqueca de Henares (Gualadajara) 2 Coslada (Madrid) 3 Villafría (Burgos) 4 Pancorbo (Burgos) 5 Jundiz-Vitoria (Álava) 10 INTERMODAL TRANSPORT LAND ACCESSES 02 The Port of Bilbao, which is committed to SUPERB multimodality, has an effective network of road and rail connections in continuous CONNECTIONS development. Bilbao is the port on the Atlantic Arc which makes most use of the railway, with 9% of dry cargo, rising to 18% if containers are included, being moved by rail into or out of the Port’s facilities. Each week, over 40 trains enter or leave the freight station at Bilbao either departing for or arriving from LAND Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. ACCESSES ROAD: A-8 MOTORWAY: Bilbao - France and Santander. Links at Eibar – Elgoibar to relief road Placencia, Vergara and Mondragón; at San Sebastián to N-1, Tolosa; at Behobie with French motorway to Bayonne BI-2120 and Bordeaux. BI-631 BI-634 Lekeitio A-68 MOTORWAY: Bilbao - Zaragoza. BI-2238 BI-2704 Links at Altube to Motorway Diputación Álava, Foronda (Vitoria) Airport and Vitoria (N-1 and N-240 to Pamplona); at Miranda Motorway A-1 Burgos and Motorway Norte (Madrid); at Alfaro Motorway A-15, Pamplona; at Rio Zaragoza to Motorway A-2, Lérida, Tarragona and Barcelona. Autopista Parque Carretera de primer orden Tecnológico Carretera de segundo orden RAIL: Otras carreteras Ciudades N637 SPANISH NATIONAL NETWORK. Bilbao - Miranda de Ebro Line, where it forks in two directions: Burgos - Madrid and Zaragoza. Bilbao Centre – Santurce Line. Barakaldo – San Julián de Musques Line. Bilbao – Santander Line. DIRECT LINK TO THE MAIN EUROPEAN TRANSPORT NETWORK All Port of Bilbao docks have road or rail Surface: 120,500 m2 accesses directly linked to the European Marshalling Yard: 8 tracks between 500 and motorway networks. In addition, within the 780 meters long very port facilities there is a TECO terminal Cargo Terminal: 2 400 meter long tracks and a marshalling yard with the following TECO Terminal: 6 450 meter long tracks characteristics: 11 THE MARINE ECOSYSTEM OF THE PORT OF BILBAO: It is hard to imagine that there is a diverse and animated community under these waters working hard to construct a prosperous future. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 12 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 03 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The air quality control stations network of the Bilbao Port Authority consists of an Automatic Weather Station and three fi xed measuring cabins. The Port Authority of Bilbao is in the vanguard of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in which it prioritises Quality, Prevention and Environmental activities. The fulfi lment of customer and user needs and expectations, the recognition of the right to health protection at work and environmental impact control make up the core of the Port Authority’s sustainable development policy. In this sense, the Port has put an Integral Management of Quality, Prevention and Environment System into action.