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The Port of Barcelona<br />
The Port of Barcelona aims to become<br />
the lead<strong>in</strong>g logistics port of the<br />
South of Europe and the Mediterranean<br />
by 2015.<br />
S<strong>in</strong>ce 2000, the Port has generated<br />
<strong>in</strong>vestment to the tune of more than<br />
3 billion Euros from both the public<br />
and the private sectors.<br />
A further 1 billion Euros will be<br />
<strong>in</strong>vested up to 2014 to complete the<br />
enlargement efforts of the city’s <strong>in</strong>frastructure.<br />
For the period 2000-2014, the Port<br />
of Barcelona will therefore have attracted<br />
4 billion Euros <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>vestment<br />
from the public sector (<strong>in</strong>frastructure)<br />
and from the private sector (<strong>in</strong>stallations,<br />
mach<strong>in</strong>ery and plant cargo<br />
handl<strong>in</strong>g equipment).<br />
The port is currently immersed <strong>in</strong> a<br />
major enlargement process to <strong>in</strong>crease<br />
its area and load<strong>in</strong>g capacity. As a prior<br />
condition for ga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g space and per<strong>form</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />
the enlargement, the Spanish<br />
M<strong>in</strong>istry of the Environment diverted<br />
the mouth of the River Llobregat two<br />
kilometers to the south <strong>in</strong> 2004.<br />
This allowed the Port of Barcelona<br />
to build two fundamental elements of<br />
the enlargement—the South seawall<br />
and the extension of the East seawall,<br />
both of which were completed at the<br />
end of 2008. These seawalls are defenses<br />
that generate an area of sheltered<br />
waters <strong>in</strong> which to build the load<strong>in</strong>g<br />
term<strong>in</strong>als. With the new seawalls, the<br />
Port of Barcelona has doubled the area<br />
that was available <strong>in</strong> 2000, which now<br />
stands at 1,300 hectares of land.<br />
The South seawall, which is 4,800<br />
meters long and has a maximum<br />
draught of 22 meters, cost 340 million<br />
The port of Barcelona with Meroil tanks <strong>in</strong> the background<br />
Euros, while the works for extend<strong>in</strong>g<br />
the East seawall by 2,025 meters<br />
totalled 225 million Euros. The shelter<strong>in</strong>g<br />
works were completed with the<br />
execution of certa<strong>in</strong> coastal corrective<br />
measures that <strong>in</strong>volved creat<strong>in</strong>g<br />
a beach south of the diverted river<br />
course, <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g an <strong>in</strong>vestment of 26<br />
million Euros.<br />
The rail sector was also prom<strong>in</strong>ent<br />
this year, adapt<strong>in</strong>g the two large conta<strong>in</strong>er<br />
term<strong>in</strong>als (TCB and TerCat)<br />
to <strong>in</strong>ternational rail gauge, mak<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Barcelona the first port <strong>in</strong> the State<br />
connected to the cont<strong>in</strong>ent with European<br />
gauge.<br />
The cruise sector received a major<br />
boost dur<strong>in</strong>g 2011 with the arrival of the<br />
three largest ships that sail <strong>in</strong> the Mediterranean<br />
(Magic Carnival, Norwegian<br />
Epic and Liberty of the Seas).<br />
AUTUMN 2012 AEGEAN NEWS 15
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