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THE PORT COMMUNITY FINALISES THE CONTAINER
GOODS SERVICE QUALITY GUIDE
In order to optimise port activity,
Bilbao’s port community
is drawing up its second service
quality guide. After finalising the
quality guide for conventional
goods, it has drawn up the one
for container goods in order to
establish joint action procedures
that guarantee the client a good
overall service, identify and propose
solutions to the critical points
that hinder the execution of
each process and provide with a
document serving as a basic staff
training tool.
Representatives of all the
agents involved in the passage of
containerised goods through the
port of Bilbao have taken part, led
by Uniport, in this goods service
quality guide, which will be finalised
in September.
The following concerns participated
in the working group:
Abra Terminales Marítimas,
ATM; Agunsa Europa; Aliança
España; Autoridad Portuaria de
Bilbao; Bergé Marítima Bilbao;
Bilbao Aduanas - Biladu; Bilbao
Truck Logistic; Cecotrans - Biz
S. Coop.; CMA CGM Ibérica;
Colegio Oficial de Agentes y
Comisionistas de Aduanas;
DHL; Dependencia Provincial
de Aduanas e II.EE de Bizkaia;
Green Ibérica; “K” Line España
Servicios Marítimos; Kühne &
Nagel; Lo - Trans, Logística y
Transporte; Nippon Express de
España; OUTPB-CTM (Coordi-
nadora Estatal de Trabajadores
del Mar); Progeco; Renfe
Operadora; Sdad. de Estiba y
Desestiba del Puerto de Bilbao,
APIE; Servicios Logísticos Portuarios,
S.L.P.; Sparber Group
and Traimer Bilbao.
Bar code
Furthermore, as a result of
the first reference procedure
for conventional goods, as part
of the work done on paper-free
Customs clearance on import”,
the Customs authorisation number
on the various terminal delivery
sheets has been changed
to a two-dimensional bar code.
The following concerns formed
part of the group in its various
phases: Abra Terminales Marítimas-
ATM; Agemasa; Asociación
de Consignatarios de
Buques y Estibadores; Autoridad
Portuaria de Bilbao; Bergé
Marítima Bilbao; Biladu; Bilbao
Atlantic Fruit Terminal - BAFT;
Colegio Oficial de Agentes y
Comisionistas de Aduanas;
Consignaciones Toro y Betolaza;
Dependencia Provincial
de Aduanas e II.EE de Bizkaia;
Marítima Candina and Servicios
Logísticos Portuarios.
SGS Española de Control,
franchisee of the public weighbridges
system at the port of
Bilbao, has made provisions for
the issuing of a ticket with the
corresponding code, in order to
facilitate truck transit within the
port enclosure. This enables operators
and the Customs Administration
to quickly identify the goods
detailed on the over 140,000
tickets issued per year.
News
Bulletin
June
2009
TRAFFIC IS AROUND 15.6
MILLION TONS
Between January and May, traffic
at the Port of Bilbao reached
the figure of 15.6 million tons,
16.8% less than the same period
in the previous year due to the
impact of the economic crisis.
According to data from the
Bilbao Port Authority, bulk liquid
products still account for
the largest share, at over 9.5
million tons, followed by containerised
cargo at 2.5 million,
solid bulk cargo at 2.2 million
and conventional cargo at 1.4
million tons.
FERTIBERIA OPENS A
FERTILIZER PLANT
The company Fertiberia, leader
in the fertilizers sector in Spain
and one of the main producers
in the EU, has started work at its
fertilizer and/or general forage
cereals transformation and storage
plant at the port of Bilbao.
It has 21,000 m 2 on Dock AZ-1.
The investment made is five million
euros and it plans to move
150,000 tons per year.

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Refinery, regasification plant,
chemical products, biofuels and
wind energy. All this traffic cohabits
in the industrial zone of the
port of Bilbao and makes it the
biggest energy-industrial complex
on the Cantabrian coast.
Bilbao is in fact the main
Spanish port in liquid energy
bulk goods. Last year, 8.8
million tons of these goods
passed through its facilities,
this accounting for 23% of its
total traffic.
The enlargement projects
carried out by the Bilbao Port
Authority since 1992 have
created a retail area and also
an industrial area of over half a
million m 2 , which houses more
than half a dozen highly competitive
companies.
The longest-standing company
in this zone is Petróleos
del Norte (Petronor), part of
the Repsol-YPF Group. The refining
plant is situated 5 kilometres
away from the port and
is connected to its facilities
via a pipeline. It is supplied
by imported crude that arrives
via the maritime terminal this
company has at the port Bilbao,
with three berths on the Punta
Lucero dock together with other
three berths on the nearby pier.
Ships of up to 30-metres draft
and 500,000 DWT, without length
or beam restrictions, can call
at its facilities. The company
processed 10.8 million tons in
2008.
Still with hydrocarbons, the
Basque petroleum product distribution
company Esergui has
just completed the enlargement
of its terminal’s capacity, adding
two tanks of 35,000m 3 capacity
each thanks to an investment
of 9.3 million euros. This has
raised its diesel and petrol storage
capacity to 220,000m 3 ,
this representing an increase of
almost 50%. Last year it moved
1,100,000 m 3 , almost all imports
originating from Northern
Europe.
News
Bulletin
June
2009
THE PORT OF BILBAO, THE BIGGEST INDUSTRIAL
ENERGY HUB ON THE CANTABRIAN COAST
At the beginning of 2007,
Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos
(CLH), leader in the
transportation and storage of
petroleum products, increased
its presence in the North
zone with the opening of a
125,000-m 2 plant in the port of
Bilbao, representing an investment
of over 67 million euros,
with a total storage capacity
of 209,000 m 3 , distributed between
17 tanks.
Gas traffic
Furthermore, since 2003
gas has become a regular traffic
at the port of Bilbao due
to the opening of the Bahía
de Bizkaia Gas-BBG regasification
plant, which is today
the second most used plant
in the Spanish gas network.
Its facilities are authorised to
take Q-Max type gas tankers.
The company is waiting for the
definitive decision to build a
third storage tank, which would
increase the plant’s capacity
from the current 300,000 LNG
up to 450,000.
Next to it is the Bahía de
Bizkaia Electricidad combined-cycle
power plant, which
uses BBG’s facilities to receive
the gas that arrives by sea. It
has an installed power of 800
MW.
Renewable energies
In March the port of Bilbao’s
first two biofuel plants started
operating: that of Biocombustibles
de Zierbana, which
invested 50 million euros, and
that of Bunge Ibérica, partly
owned by the company Acciona
Biocombustibles, whose budget
comes to 25 million euros. The
two plants together will produce
a traffic of 400,000 tons of
biofuel per year.
As far as wind energy is concerned,
the Punta Lucero dock
has housed five wind turbines
since 2006, run by the company
Renovables El Abra, of the
Acciona Group, which required
an investment of 11 million
euros and occupies a surface
area of 1,580 m 2 , which produce
10 megawatts of energy.
Quality control
The competitiveness of the
Punta Lucero zone’s energy
terminals is reinforced by
SGS Española de Control. Its
laboratory is situated right in
the industrial zone, which enables
it to minimise its response
times and speed up the start of
the unloading of the ship, once
the appropriate controls have
been carried out and certificates
drawn up.
TEPSA ENLARGES ITS STORAGE CAPACITY
UP TO 315,000 M 3
TEPSA was the pioneer in building a reception plant in the
port of Bilbao in 1968. The Terminal was moved in 1994 from
Santurtzi to its current location in the district of Zierbena,
demonstrating its keen interest in developing the activity.
Now it has extended its facilities again, with the setting up of
thirteen new tanks and a new offices building. From its initial
50,000m 3 of storage space, the firm has increased this in June
to 315,000m 3 . TEPSA has increased more than six-fold over the
last ten years.
TEPSA’s corporate purpose is the reception, storage and reshipping
(via truck – pipeline – ship) of liquid products classified
into three managing categories: chemical products, petroleums
and biofuels, on third-party account. The terminal has the
capacity to move over 2.5 million tons a year. The greater part
corresponds to the importing of oil products, although it also
includes the outsourcing service, involving other companies in
a kind of integrated management model.
To meet all kinds of demands, the facility has various Customs
and Tax categories assigned to it. It is an ADT (Temporary
Deposit Warehouse), a LAME (Premises for Export Goods), a
Hydrocarbon Tax Warehouse and a DDA (Warehouse other than
Customs Warehouse) type A. In line with its physical growth,
the Bilbao terminal has taken the leading role in important
events, such as the link-up with the refinery (Petronor), being
the first terminal to be linked directly to the national pipeline
network and, recently, its connection with the biofuels factories
situated in the port of Bilbao.

NEW ACTIVITIES FOR EXTERNAL PROMOTION
AND IMPROVED COMPETITIVENESS
Uniport, as a cluster representing
the interests of the port
community, continues to organise
actions directed at external
promotion and continues to
support the intense marketing
effort made by all the companies
that form it.
Furthermore, as set out in
its Strategic Plan, it is working
to enlarge the hinterland of the
port of Bilbao. This has included
the analysis seminar day held in
April on business opportunities
in Morocco, attended by the
chairman of the CEOE’s Spanish-Moroccan
committee, José
Miguel Zaldo, and the chairman
of the Northern Morocco
employers’ association, Hakim
Aoulit.
In order to promote the services
offered by companies in
Bilbao’s maritime/port sector, it
A CSAV’s REEFER SHIP CALLS AT THE
PERISHABLES TERMINAL
The conventional refrigerated
cargo ship “SNOW LAND”, operated
by Compañía Sudamericana
de Vapores (CSAV), called, for
the first time at the new Bilbao
Atlantic Frio Terminal (BAFT),
where it unloaded 1,171 pallets
of fresh fruit.
The vessel had come from
the Chilean port of Valparaíso
and arrived at the port of Bilbao
after 19 days’ transit time via the
Panama Canal. It was consig-
participated over the last few
months, among other events, in
the South American Intermodal
Fair in Sao Paulo, at the international
Transport Logistics fair in
Munich, in the (SIL) International
Logistics Week in Barcelona,
in PILOT Zaragoza, in the Future
Energy Forum in Bilbao and in
TOC Europe in Bremen.
It also took part in June
in the second edition of the
annual conference on logistics
and intermodality, “Transmodal
2009”, organised by the Álava
ned by Universal Maritima and
unloaded by Agemasa.
The operation, as well as being
a milestone in the port of Bilbao’s
recent history, required the stevedoring
company and the BAFT Terminal
to work together in order to
maintain the constant unloading
rhythm that guarantees the optimum
cold chain. The process was
supervised by the necessary health
and phytosanitary inspection
personnel at the port.
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry and the Bilbao Port
Authority.
As far as improved competitiveness
is concerned, apart
from continuing with the various
working groups, in the last
quarter of the year it held further
professional training workshops
led by: the Agriculture
and Fishing Unit represented
by the Phytosanitary Inspection
and Animal Health
Inspection sections, and the
Department of Customs and
Special Taxes- Customs
Administration General Subdirectorate.
General meeting
On 18 June the companies
members of UniportBilbao held
their general meeting.
Members reviewed the activities
of the first half of 2009
and approved projects to be
carried out in the second half
of the year.
FINNLINES RESTARTS ITS SERVICE TO
AND FROM ST PETERSBURG
The companies of the Bilbao
port community specialised
in Short Sea Shipping
continue to improve their
services. On the one hand,
the Finnish shipping company
Finnlines, consigned
by Consignaciones Toro y
Betolaza, has restarted its
regular ro-ro and container
service between Bilbao and
St Petersburg, via Helsinki,
for conventional cargo, project
cargo and any type of
ro-ro cargo.
The new service, which
has a transit time of 13
days, continues to link Bilbao
weekly, both for import and
export, with the Finnish ports
of Helsinki, (in five days) and
Kotka (in seven), and with
the British port of Hull (in
three). From Hull there is
a connection with Antwerp
(Belgium) and from Helsinki
with Gdynia (Poland), with a
transit time of 5 and 7 days,
respectively.
Transfennica, a company
of the Spliethoff group, has
announced the addition, as
of 15 September, of a third
con-ro ship to its service
between Bilbao and the Belgian
port of Zebbrugge.
It will thus go from the
three sailings a week in each
direction, started a year and
a half ago, up to five a
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The shipping company Maritime
Carrier Shipping Gmbh &
Co (MACS Shipping), represented
by Vasco Catalana Group,
has extended its ports of call
in Africa to include Nacala and
Beira (Mozambique) and Mombasa
(Kenya). Thus, the port of
Bilbao now has a weekly connection,
both for containers
(via Lisbon) and conventional
cargo (via Antwerp), with the
ports of Walvis Bay, Capetown,
Port Elizabeth, Durban, Richard
Bay, Maputo, Nacala, Beira and
Mombasa.
Contenemar Bilbao has decided
to renew its fleet with a
view to the future and, to do
this, plans to buy four container
carriers under seven or eight
years old in the next 12 months,
and also one or two ro-pax.
Tiba Internacional, part of the
Romeu group, has obtained the
Authorised Economic Operator
Certificate, valid at all its offices,
including the Bilbao office.
The Dutch shipping company
W.E.C. Lines España, S.L.U.,
which operates mainly with
Northern Europe and Africa,
forecasts this year that it will
surpass for the port of Bilbao
the figure of 22,000 Teus, (compared
to 18,000 in 2008), 5,000
of which it expects to be own
cargo. To channel its growth, it
has replaced its two initial ships
with another two with more
features and capacity for 868
containers.
General de Alquiler de Maquinaria
(GAM) will centre the
group’s activity in the renewable
energies sector on its Basque
subsidiary GAM Aldaiturriaga.
News
Bulletin
June
2009
The plan is to double in three
years the business centred on the
hire of machinery for transportation,
assembly and maintenance
of wind turbines up to 40 million
euros. Along with the wind
energy business, the company is
also a leader in the leasing of
equipment for construction and
industry. It will soon open the
first shop for the general public
in Barakaldo.
Holland’s Institute of Inter-laboratory
Studies (IIS) awarded
Petróleos del Norte - Petronor
the Certificate of Excellence after
it obtained the top classification
in a comparison of seventy
laboratories worldwide. The participants
had to carry out eleven
fuel analysis tests based on the
Kyoto international directives.
Bahía Bizkaia Gas (BBG) received
in its dock the first gas
tanker operated by the Japanese
shipping company Mitsui OSK
Lines (MOL). The vessel “Sohar
LNG” is 298 metres’ long and has
a capacity of 137,250m 3 . This
call, which is to be repeated several
times a year, puts the port
of Bilbao on the route of the major
companies operating tramp
services.
Grupo Gran Europa opens the
fourth phase of the Cabanillas
R-2 Logistics-Industrial Park, one
of the Iberian Peninsula’s main
logisitics centres, with which it
reaches an overall business surface
area of about two million
square metres. The Park is located
on exit 44 of the R-2 Radial
Motorway (Madrid-Guadalajara)
and is extremely well communicated.
The companies located in
it take advantage of the services
offered by the Azuqueca dry port
with a railway connection to the
port of Bilbao.
Aparkabisa Bizkaiko Garraio
Gunea- Centro de Transportes
de Bizkaia is carrying out works
to incorporate the sewage discharge
from its facilities to the
Water Consortium’s primary network
via the Ugarte-Kareaga collector
and treatment of its rain
waters. This project, with a budget
of nearly one million euros,
will improve the environmental
situation in the Trápaga and Barakaldo
Valley area in which part
of its facilities are located.
The Consorcio del Depósito
Franco de Bilbao handled over
590,000 tons in 2008, 17% more
than in the previous year. It also
emptied 3,450 containers (teu),
nearly 1,000 units more than in
2007, and loaded and unloaded
around 1,200 trucks. It inspected
8,555 containers at the Border
Inspection Post, compared to
7,807 in 2007.
The Chairman of Avia International,
Rolf Bachmann, visited
the recently enlarged Esergui
petroleum storage terminal at
Punta Lucero. Avia International
is formed by 80 independent
oil operators from 14 European
countries, among them Esergui,
with over 3,000 associated petrol
stations.
Caja Navarra-CAN is launching
a credit line of 200 million
euros that can be contracted by
Basque Country companies in
order to purchase companies in
other countries. CAN has also
undertaken to provide a personalised
international guarantees
service for each company’s import
and export operations.
JOSÉ RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE, NEW CHAIRMAN
OF THE BIILBAO PORT AUTHORITY
José Ramón de la Fuente
Arteagabeitia has been appointed
new Chairman of the Bilbao
Port Authority, by the Council
of the Basque Government,
replacing José Ángel Corres
Abásolo.
De la Fuente is a Merchant
Navy Captain and a Career Civil
Servant of the Ministry of Public
Works. Since February 2004 he
has been Provincial Director of
the Social Marine Institute.
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