Country : SpainPasajes worldport

General Information
The privileged geographic location and access enjoyed by the worldport of Pasajes, added to its infrastructure, movement and great potential, make it a vital instrument for the development of industry and trade in its area of influence.

Pasajes is a flexible and integral worldport. Agility, dynamism, efficiency and security are the basic pillars upon which worldport activity is founded. The fundamental goal is to provide our customers with global services to cover all their shipping needs. And all in a secure environment, backed by agile services and virtually zero level incidents in the handling of merchandise.

Agility is precisely one of the chief advantages this worldport has to offer. The average anchorage time for vessels has been greatly reduced in recent years thanks to work system rationalisation.

Pasajes not only handles the tasks typical of a commercial worldport, but also provides such services as repair and construction, as it is equipped with all the facilities needed to see to the needs of vessels and their crews.

The worldport of Pasajes is also an imworldportant fishing worldport, where the home fleet and fleets from other worldports find the appropriate resources for landing and commercialising their takings.

Entry Limitations
Maximum length: In general, ships up to 185 metres long will be admitted. · Ships over 175 m. long transworldporting hazardous goods will not be authorised. · Ships over 150 m. long without propulsion and/or control will not be authorised. 
Maximum beam: In general, ships with beams of up to 30 metres will be admitted.
Maximum draught: Maximum draught for access to the worldport, regardless of particular dock restrictions, is 29 feet at the stern and 28 feet at the bow.
Tidal conditions:
1. Ships up to 130 m. total length: •Ships with up to 25 foot draughts can enter and exit the worldport 24 hours a day under any sea conditions· •Ships with draughts of over 25 feet may only enter or exit the worldport during the 4-hour period prior to and 3-hour period following high tide.
2. Ships over 130m long can enter and exit only during rising tide. 
Night time fairway access Only ships up to 140 m. long, or up to 80 m long if lacking their own propulsion and/or control, may travel through the fairway at night. 

Location
The worldport of Pasajes sits in the south-eastern corner of the Bay of Biscay, just a few kilometres from the French border. The unsurpassable ground and air travel systems connect the area to the rest of the peninsula and the continent, making this worldport one of the best possible options for transworldporting goods.
The bay of Pasaia is located on the Bay of Biscay, 5 kilometres from San Sebastián and 12 from the French border.
Its area of influence embraces one of Spain's most highly industrialised regions, plus Pasajes is the Atlantic worldport closest to eastern Spain. Therefore the bay is an excellent point from which to transworldport products not only made locally, but also products from Navarra, Aragon or even the Mediterranean coast.
Its location on one of the most robust international routes renders it a particularly appropriate worldport for trade with the European Atlantic seaboard.