The Port of Algeciras hosted, last 4th and 5th May, the 11th edition of the biennial seminar of the European Harbour Masters’ Committee of the International Harbour Masters’ Committee of the International Harbour Masters’ Association (IHMA), which took place in the Millán Picazo Auditorium. For two days, Algeciras has become the centre of the debate […]

The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA) participated, last Tuesday 18 April, in the conference of the Working Group of the ports of the Corridor of the Mediterranean Core Network of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), organised by the Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructures of the Republic of Croatia and the Port […]

In a global scenario of continuous technological development and exponential digital transformation, it seems unquestionable that organisations must have a powerful local digital ecosystem that allows them to continue to offer a competitive advantage through digitisation and innovation as facilitating elements. However, the shortage of digital talent is already a reality that hinders development and […]

The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA) participated, last Thursday 20th April, in the conference “Digital Twins in the port environment”, organised by Digital Twins for Infrastructures & Cities, Puertos del Estado and the schools ETS of Civil Engineering and ETS of Naval Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), which was held […]

The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) hosted, last Friday 21 April in the Port of Algeciras, the Conference “Agora: Digitalization, blue economy and smart ports”, within the framework of the Telefónica Chair of the University of Cadiz (UCA). The meeting, held in the Millán Picazo Auditorium, is part of the activities of […]

The Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA) has developed an application for mobile devices addressed to the passengers of the ports of Algeciras and Tarifa (Cadiz) which offers information in real time about the ships’ schedules, the state of the embarkations/disembarkations, the assigned berth number, the shipping company or the ship which will cover the service. […]

The APBA and the Technological Campus Foundation awarded her work on the design of a Machine Learning (ML) tool for the planning of human resources and goods handling equipment in a container terminal. Sara Robledo Blasco, student of the School of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), received the III Algeciras Brainport […]

Last March 10th, the Port Authority Bay of Algeciras (APBA) and the University of Cadiz (UCA) started the 1st Edition of the University Expert in Digital Transformation applied to Port Logistics, university degree promoted and organised by both institutions. This new degree, which has a total of 22 places, an equivalence of 15 ECTS credits […]

The Port Authority Bay of Algeciras (APBA), represented by its Technical Innovation Office, attended last 15th March the demonstration of the Proof of Concept (PoC) of the disruptive innovation project called “Apolo”, developed by the company Reparaciones Marítimas Españolas SA (REMESA) from Algeciras. Specifically, the project proposes the development of a modular solution for the […]

The Innovation Committee of the Port of Algeciras has started today with the opening of the deadline for companies and institutions to transfer their interest in belonging to it. This was announced this morning by the Head of Innovation of the Port Authority of Algeciras (APBA), Jesús Medina, during the Conference ‘Opportunities, towards Innovation’ which […]

Next Thursday, 16th March, the launch of the Innovation Committee of the Port of Algeciras will take place. A Committee constituted as a shared work forum with the companies of its Port Community which aims to align, coordinate and promote collaborative innovation in the Port of Algeciras. This launch will be accompanied by a Business […]

The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras has actively participated in the 12th edition of the European Forum Transfiere 2023, the main R&D&I meeting in Southern Europe. This forum, which was held on February 15, 16 and 17, 2023 at the Trade Fairs and Congress Center of Malaga, is a joint initiative of the […]

The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA) has renewed the certificate of the R&D&i Management System, which it obtained for the first time in December 2019, and which accredits that the APBA complies with the requirements of the renewed UNE 166002:2021 Standard for research, development and innovation activities in the field of logistics and […]

Last December, the AspBANproject (Atlantic Smart Ports Blue Acceleration Network) selected the 40 start-ups that would participate in the Bootcamp program. A program focused on the co-design of future pilot tests that will solve the business challenges posed by the Atlantic ports members of the consortium. Among those selected are start-ups with solutions based on […]

Last January 27th was published the final resolution proposal, by the Distribution Committee of the Interport Compensation Fund, for the granting of subsidies, in the modality of Commercial Projects of the second call of the Ports 4.0 Fund, created by the Public Body Ports of the State (OPPE). Among the proposals that have been beneficiaries, […]

The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA) participated, last Wednesday 14th of December in the Conference on Port Strategy organised by the Port Management Committee of the Spanish Technical Association of Ports and Coasts (ATPYC), at the headquarters of Puertos del Estado. The conference, articulated around the strategic dimension in the ports of the […]

The 30th of November, as part of the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the national port system, Puertos del Estado held the conference Ports 4.0 – Ports of the future, an event with its sights set on the upcoming decades, marked by technological transformation and the challenges that are yet to come. More than […]

In 2021 the AspBAN(Atlantic Smart Ports Blue Acceleration Network) project was selected for funding by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund of the European Commission, responding to the objectives of the Atlantic 2.0 Action Plan of the Atlantic Strategy Committee (ASC). The project focuses mainly on the development of a dynamic acceleration platform, helping Atlantic […]

Held from 29th of November to 2nd of December at the Cadiz Conference Centre, the II International Meeting on Knowledge and the Blue Economy, Innovazul 2022, once again placed Cadiz and Andalusia at the epicentre of the European strategy for the Blue Economy. The figures achieved in this second edition confirmed its consolidation and even […]

The Algeciras Port Authority (APBA) participated, last Tuesday, November 29, in the eighteenth edition of the Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services (WESOACS), one of the previous events of the twentieth edition of the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), which in this new edition will be held in Seville, from November 30 […]

The Alborán Hotel in Algeciras was the venue for the last lunch-colloquium organized by the Propeller Club of Algeciras and held last Tuesday, November 22. The lunch-colloquium dealt on this occasion with logistics innovations and port digital transformation. Jesús Medina, CIO of the Algeciras Bay Port Authority, and Mafran Martínez, CTO of the Port Authority […]