Port of Cartagena

The port of Cartagena (Spanish: Puerto de Cartagena) is the port located in Cartagena, Murcia. It is the fourth nationwide port in freight traffic behind Algeciras, Valencia and Barcelona and ahead of Tarragona, Bilbao or Huelva.[2][3] It occupies the eighth place in relation to the number of cruises.[2] 60% of exports and the 80% of imports from the Region of Murcia are made through the port of Cartagena.[4] More than 40% of the tourism that Cartagena receives is made by its port.[5]

Port of Cartagena
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Location
CountrySpain
LocationCartagena
Coordinates37°35′00″N 0°59′00″W
UN/LOCODEESCAR[1]
Details
Type of harborPuerto del Estado
Website
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In 2006, the Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena proposed the expansion of the port with a new dock in El Gorguel. The estimated cost exceeded 1500 million of euros.[6]

Docks
Leyenda
Base Naval de la Armada Española
Puerto comercial
Puerto deportivo
Puerto pesquero
Puerto de pasajeros
Barco de Salvamento Marítimo de Cruz Roja
Base de la Sociedad de Salvamento Marítimo
Base del Servicio Marítimo de la Guardia Civil
Base del Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera
Puerto catalogado con bandera azul

The Port of Cartagena has two independent docks (Cartagena and Escombreras), separated from each other by a distance of 5 km by road and 1.5 miles by sea.[7]

References
  1. "UNLOCODE (ES) - SPAIN". service.unece.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  2. "Resumen general del tráfico portuario" (PDF). Puertos del Estado (in Spanish). Dirección de Planificación y Desarrollo, Departamento de Estadística. Ministerio de Fomento, Gobierno de España. January 2019. p. 29. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. "Estadísticas. Resumen de movimiento de mercancías al mes de septiembre de 2015". Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (in Spanish). Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. September 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  4. "El puerto de Cartagena como infraestructura logística de apoyo a las empresas exportadoras". Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (in Spanish). Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. 3 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  5. "Noticias". CARM.es (in Spanish). 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  6. "Informe técnico sobre el impacto de la instalación de una dársena de contenedores en El Gorguel" (PDF). Fundación Sierra Minera (in Spanish): 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  7. "Declaración Ambiental 2009" (PDF). Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (in Spanish). Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. 2010. p. 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2019.


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