​"Too big, too heavy, too complicated? Not for Spanish Ports" "Spanish Ports, where too complicated simply doesn't exist", the slogan with which Spanish ports and companies will be presented at the BreakBulk Fair in Antwerp

Too big, too heavy, too complicated? Spanish ports offer solutions for all types of goods

• 259.5 million tons of bulk goods, 67.5 million tons of conventional goods and 54 million tons of ro-ro traffic in 2016

21-04-2017 (Ministry of Public Works). 62,743 linear metres for bulk cargo, 17,272 metres dedicated to ro-ro traffic, and 36,285 metres of multi-use, served by over 200 cranes, and equipped with the latest-generation facilities that can receive and dispatch any type of good to any destination in the world. This is the business card of Puertos del Estado and Spain's main ports (A Coruña, Avilés, Algeciras, Bilbao, Cartagena, Castellón, Ferrol, Gijón, Huelva, Las Palmas, SC Tenerife, Santander, Seville, Tarragona, Valencia and Vigo), which will be taking part in BreakBulk Europe 2017 hosted in Antwerp from 24 to 26 April.

In addition, at the "Ports of Spain" stand, which is close to 200 m2 and coordinated by Puertos del Estado, important companies that develop their activities at our ports will be present, including Ership, an historic business conglomerate that provides operator, shipping, broker, consignee and freight services at a dozen Spanish ports; the Grupo Nogar, founded in the 1940s, whose logistics division includes one of its main activities, providing services as ship agents, storage, transportation and handling services, stowage and removal, loading and unloading of all types of goods (bulk agro-food goods, paper pulp, forestry products, steel goods, wind turbines), project cargo, refrigerated terminals, import-export management of containers via its global forwarding service, etc. Today, it manages agro-food terminals and general loading at six Galician ports, one container terminal in Paranaguá (Brazil) and Pisco Port in Paracas (Peru); and the Grupo Suardíaz, which is one of the longest standing and most traditional groups in the Spanish maritime world that has been dedicated to this activity for over a century. It boasts its own fleet that is the first Spanish fleet of roll-on roll-off/car carrier ships.

• SPANISH PORTS OFFER SOLUTIONS FOR ANY TYPE OF CARGO AT BREAKBULK EUROPE 2017

Together, Spanish ports moved 259.5 million tons of bulk goods in 2016, 67.5 million tons of conventional goods and close to 54 million tons of ro-ro traffic, granting the Iberian Peninsula and our Archipelagos a decisive role in maritime transport and in the composition of multimodal logistics chains.

PORT TRAFFIC WITH BELGIUM, OVER 100,000 TONS

From traditional energy products such as oil and coal, and including more sophisticated merchandise such as components for wind power generators and others that are gaining importance in our ports, like liquefied natural gas (LNG), through to petrochemical products and cereals. Our ports can handle all of these. The slogan "Too big, too heavy, too complicated? Not for Spanish Ports" "Spanish Ports, where too complicated simply doesn't exist" clearly depicts the capacity of Spanish ports to move and handle any type of good. The primary aim of the presence of Spain's ports at this fair is therefore to consolidate existing business and capture new traffic, particularly transit and ro-ro.

• ANTWERP: A CROSSROADS FOR EUROPEAN LOGISTICS

BreakBulk Europe, the most important bulk cargo, project cargo and ro-ro logistics fair in Europe, is an opportunity for transit agents, terminal operators, specialised maritime transporters, logistics providers and many others to showcase to the over 6,500 attendees their capacity for handling and transporting all types of goods.

Antwerp, which is the second most important port in Europe with over 210 million tons moved in 2016, is the second largest petrochemical port in the world after Houston (Texas) and the largest in Europe: it has over 40 km2 dedicated to the chemical industry, and it is home to seven of the ten most important chemical companies in the world. It also possesses the largest storage capacity in Europe for the petrochemical industry. Today, it is the largest port area in the world, covering 12,068 hectares.