The port in medias

PORT OF CEUTA BOOSTS VLSFO RESERVES.

26/11/2021

Two tankers have discharged very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) cargoes totalling 66,000 tonnes this month at the Port of Ceuta to be used for the local bunker market. On 6 November, the 176-metre-long Bixbite unloaded 33,000 tonnes of VLSFO over the course of 72 hours. The fuel oil was supplied to Vilma (23,000 tonnes) and Cepsa […]

ELEVEN PORTS ARE IN THE RUNNING FOR THE ESPO AWARD 2021.

06/07/2021

Eleven ports have submitted a project for the ESPO Award 2021. Guadeloupe Port Caraïbes (France), Hamburg Port Authority (Germany), Piraeus Port Authority (Greece), Dublin Port Company (Ireland), Port Network Authority of the Northern Central Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy), Port Network Authority of the Ionian Sea – Port of Taranto (Italy), Port of Gdansk (Poland), Port Authority […]

ESPO congratulates the Port of Ceuta and Peterhead Port Authority for achieving EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS).

04/12/2020

ESPO congratulates the Port of Ceuta (Spain) and Peterhead Port Authority (United Kingdom) for achieving again EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS). This is Peterhead’s sixth PERS certification since their entry into the EcoPorts network in 2008, and Ceuta’s second time achieving the PERS certification. Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO Secretary General, commented: “We are happy to add […]

Port and Red Cross sign an agreement in Ceuta.

06/05/2020

Amidst the wave of negative news caused by the COVID-19, some positive ones can bring hope. Before the beginning of the quarantine in Spain, in mid-march, the port authority of Ceuta and the Red Cross signed an agreement allowing this humanitarian institution to use port facilities for the next 10 years. The Red Cross will […]

PORT OF CEUTA BRINGS SECOND BUNKER BARGE INTO SERVICE.

27/02/2020

The Spabunker Sixty, operated by Cepsa, is expected to meet demand from 40-50 more vessels each month. The Spabunker Sixty, constructed at the Unión Valencia Naval Shipyard, entered service in 2008 and is a double-hulled barge with a capacity for 2,300 metric tonnes (mt) of fuel oil and 700 mt of marine diesel oil (MDO). The vessel […]