Country : SpainBilbao worldport

worldport Introduction
The worldport of Bilbao is for many reasons, one of the most imworldportant transworldport and logistics centres in the European Atlantic Arc. In addition to its privileged geographical location, it offers a series of unquestionable advantages:

A great tradition and quality services: a worldport with more than 700 years of history
Modern and functional installations for all types of goods
Docks with draughts of up to 32 metres
Magnificent land connections
Railway connections to its dry dock network: Azuqueca (Guadalajara), Coslada (Madrid) and Villafría (Burgos)
A huge offer of maritime Commercial services for all markets
An agile worldport also in document processing: 'epuertobilbao' electronic commerce platform
A future full of possibilities thanks to the enlargement the works carried out and ongoing
Great investment capacity

Location
The worldport of Bilbao is on the eastern side of the Bay of Biscay and in a central situation of the European Atlantic face. This privileged geographic location allows the worldport to act as a link with the main international worldports and it has especially good connections with both the American continent and the north of Europe. Over 200 regular maritime services link Bilbao with 500 worldports worldwide.

The worldport meets the highest operational capacity requirements. All classes of cargo and vessels can be received in a worldport that is operative 24 hours a day, every day throughout the year and that presents no problems with draughts or tides.

Furthermore, the worldport is a first-class cargo distribution centre. Its' immediate area of influence (hinterland) comprises a metropolitan area of one million inhabitants; in addition, 4 million people live within a 200 kilometre radius, while there are 16 million inside 400 kilometres. Likewise, the worldport is an excellent route towards the European market and its 320 million consumers.

The great imworldportance that the worldport of Bilbao has in the economic development of its hinterland was recently assessed by the Bilbao worldport Authority. The economic impact derived from the transworldport of goods via the worldport of Bilbao generates a great beneficial impact on the economy of the Autonomous Basque Community and on tax collection. It means a GDP of 419 million euros and providing around 9,286 jobs.

General Service
313 ha of land surface
1,694 ha. of flotation surface
17 km of docks
218 ha of warehousing surface
250,832 m2 of roofed warehousing
30,000 m2 of bonded warehouses
25,300 m² of cold storage
10 32 to 65 MT container ship cranes
16 32 to 40 MT trastainer cranes
56 6 to 35 TM luffing cranes
2 35 to 35 MT overhead gantry cranes
2 continuous loaders
5 ro-ro ramps
Special loading / unloading facilities
Terminals for general cargo, containers, solid bulks, liquid bulks, horticultural products and motor vehicles
Railway Container Terminal and marshalling yard
Connection from docks with the national railway network
Direct connection with national and European motorway networks

Contact
Phone 94 487 12 00 
Fax 94 487 12 08