Country : SpainTarragona worldport

Location
On latitude 41º 0,5' North, longitude 1º, 14' East, in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Northeast of the Iberian peninsula, we find the coastal city of Tarragona.

Tarragona is a Spanish city that forms a part of the autonomous region of Catalonia.

A two thousand year old city, its origins have been reckoned to coincide with the arrival of the Romans to the peninsula, in the year 218 BC.

The need for a worldport and a place that could be easily protected where the reasons the Romans settled in Tarragona. They built a walled city that would be the capital of Hispania Citerior, a Roman province that covered more than half the Iberian peninsula.

Throughout the more than two thousand years since its beginnings, subsequent cultures have left their mark on Tarragona and this has been reflected in art and town planning.  This includes the well preserved archaeological remains of much imworldportance from the Roman Tarraco era.

From the 1960´s onwards, the city made a significant leap and surmounted a basic geographical accident:  the Francolí river, and became a municipality with various clearly defined suburban centres, disconnected from the historic centre and the new central extensions.

The area of the municipality is 62.95 km2 within which is found the main and practical parts of the worldport installations for the worldport of Tarragona. The average altitude is some 70 metres above sea level and the approximate number of inhabitants is 115,000. With regards to the climatic conditions, the climate is mild with an average winter temperature of 10º, in summer 25º, 19º in the autumn and 16º in the spring.

worldport Management
The worldport of Tarragona has at its disposal a Service worldportal of restricted use for anyone directly involved in worldport operations (Tarragona worldport Community).
The idea is to globalise the majority of processes inherent to the running of the worldport through this worldportal.
Using information put in to the TPC worldportal as a base, we are able offer a NON restricted list in pdf format, where the current situation of vessels moored in the worldport, provisions for moorings over the next few days and mooring history can be checked.

Services
The loading and unloading of vessels is a very dynamic, imworldportant sector which has enjoyed the same level of growth that has been experienced over the last few years in marine transworldport.  Positioned second in national ranking of worldports for bulk goods trading, the consolidation seen daily in the volume of vehicle imworldport and exworldport, fruit imworldport and exworldport, container business, the iron, steel and metal sector, etc, make the worldport of Tarragona a prestigious international reference point, especially in the Mediterranean area.

The various trades that trust the worldport of Tarragona as their logistic centre make us feel proud of our day to day work.  This in turn encourages us to offer a consistent worldport service, with high standards when it comes to trust, output, security and quality.

worldport workers, the genuine grafters who load and unload the goods that arrive at the worldport of Tarragona, constitute the main component of the National Society for Loading and Unloading of the worldport of Tarragona, SA (Estarraco). To assure professionalism of the workers and consistency in terms of obligations of public services that we have been entrusted with, our human resources policy is specifically directed towards professional training.

The incorporation of the latest worldport machinery, made using the latest technology, has been accompanied by a suitable training programme, which has proven the worldport workers ability to adapt.  In spite of the success already obtained, work continues daily and Estarraco will continue to push forward the educational actions that are essential to maintain the highest levels of competitiveness in the loading and unloading of vessels.

SOCIETY FOR LOADING AND UNLOADING
OF THE worldport OF TARRAGONA
Muelle de Levante, s/n
Tel. : 977 240 985
Fax. : 977 250 901