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 […]

Between 7th and 10th of November, the Gartner IT Symposium|XPO Congress, took place in Barcelona, an international reference event focused on exploring the strategic trends and technologies that drive innovation and digital transformation to shape the future of organisations and businesses. The event, held at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB), brought together more than […]

The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA) participated, last Friday 28th October, in the 8th National Congress of the Technical Association of Ports and Coasts (ATPYC), organised by the Association, Puertos del Estado and the Port of Cartagena. Under the slogan “Innovation and New Technologies”, more than 200 professionals and experts from the sector, […]

The Port Authority of the Algeciras Bay (APBA) participated, last Tuesday 18 October, in the cross-border technical conference Spain-Portugal which, under the title “Blue Innovation applied to the port ecosystem”, took place in Algeciras to discuss technology, innovation and sustainable development as an opportunity for the maritime-marine industry. The meeting, held in the Millán Picazo […]

The Algeciras BrainPort Innovation Award, which is in its third edition, recognises the best Bachelor’s Degree (TFG) and Master’s Degree (TFM) final projects, carried out by university students and researchers from national and international universities, which cover different topics related to the logistics-port business from an innovative perspective. The Port Authority of the Bay of […]

The innovation project was constituted as a proof of concept (PoC) which challenge was to provide, based on the use of video images from the APBA’s Image Capture System (SCI), real-time information about the level of occupation of the entry and exit roads to different port areas as well as the arrival distribution of trucks […]

The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) participated, last Wednesday, September 7th, in the conference “The digital transformation of the ports: new technologies, new ways of thinking and acting”, organized by the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) and the Port Authority of Santander. This conference is part of the cycle of meetings “Port […]

The Port of Algeciras was present at the Conference of the Society of Software Engineering and Software Development Technologies (SISTEDES), organized by the Computer Graphics and Data Engineering group of CiTIUS (Singular Center for Research in Intelligent Technologies of the University of Santiago de Compostela), which took place from 5 to 7 September at the […]

The Algeciras Port Authority (APBA) held last Wednesday, July 13, the awards ceremony of the 3rd edition of the ideas contest “Travesía de la Innovación” (Innovation Journey). During the event, held in person on the premises of the APBA, the best ideas of its employees and participating entrepreneurs and technology companies were awarded. With the […]

The Algeciras Port Authority (APBA) hosted last Thursday July 7 the international meeting ‘OPS Meet Algeciras 2022‘, the second edition of this technical conference focused on analyzing the feasibility, utilities, benefits and successful applications of the OPS (Onshore Power Supply) system for the power supply to ships during their stay in port and its positive […]

The Algeciras Port Authority (APBA), together with representatives of Puertos del Estado, the ports of Valencia, Barcelona, Huelva and Castellón and the companies Siemens, Nokia, Prodevelop, GMV and Signify, took part last Thursday 16 June in the Smart Ports Forum, the sixth edition of a forum organized by Executive Forum, which also had the collaboration […]

After two years of absence, TOC Europe has once again brought together professionals from the global container supply chain in Rotterdam, with the aim of analyzing how the sector must adapt to the unpredictable economic climate, how new technologies are changing the rules of the game or what will be the best strategies in the […]

The Millán Picazo auditorium of the Algeciras Port Authority was the venue for the second event organized by the association Algeciras Port Youth Community. The discussion day, held on Wednesday May 25 and entitled “The Digitalization of the Port of Algeciras”, was attended by Gerardo Landaluce and Jesus Medina, President and CIO of the Port […]