A new Short Report on the analisys of the Italy’competitors may be purchased in the section Ports&Shipping. It describes the importance of ports for the Spanish economy, that can be inferred from the fact that over 60% of exports and 85% are seaborne; these figures exceed 90% when considering trade with countries outside the European Union.
The activities related to the port sector directly contribute to the country’s economy being 1.8% of the Spanish GDP and provide an annual gross value added of over 9 billion euros which, if we take into account the indirect and induced effects, doubles and rises to 18 billion euro (Ministerio de Fomento, January 2014).To this it must be added the 100,000 direct jobs generated by the Spanish ports and the additional 175,000 indirect jobs.
The Spanish port system is regulated by the “Ley de Puertos” of 2010, which recognised 28 Port Authorities which manage a total amount of 46 ports of general interest, with considerable autonomy in the pursuit of their own economic and strategic objectives.
