PORTS OF SPAIN pain's port system is state owned and made Sup of 46 ports of ‘general interest’, managed by 28 port authorities. It is coordinated and supervised by the public body Puertos del Estado, which is under the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. The system is governed by the principle of economic self-sufficiency, which operates under an advanced landlord model, whereby port authorities provide the infrastructure and take a leading role in terms of the services the ports offer. Puertos del Estado, along with the various port authorities, promotes and is engaged in revolution 4.0, based on new technology, Avda. del Partenón, 10 decarbonisation and an 28042 MADRID overhaul of the current t. +34 915 245 500 energy and logistics model, the aim being to increase
[email protected] the efficiency and competi- tiveness of port facilities and www.puertos.es their intermodality. 4 MAKE-UP OF TOTAL TRAFFIC (%) TECHNICAL FEATURES OF THE PORT SYSTEM WATER SURFACE BERTHING LINES LAND AREA 17,666.17 380,790 9,930.18 hectares linear metres hectares 5 A CORUÑA The Port of A Coruña occupies an ideal location for vessels travelling between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, or to the Americas and Asia from the Atlantic Corridor. Primarily a bulk port and Spain's main port for fresh fish landings, it has become a leading port for cruise liners on the country's north Atlantic coast. As well as the new outer port facilities, a new, separate hydrocarbon terminal is also set to be completed by 2020. GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF THE PORT LONGITUDE LATITUDE 8˚ 31’ W 43˚ 21’ N Avda.