Port of Cartagena

The port of Cartagena (Spanish: Puerto de Cartagena) is the port located in Cartagena, Spain. It is the fourth nationwide port in freight traffic behind Algeciras, Valencia and Barcelona.^[2][3] It occupies the eighth place in relation to the number of cruises.^[2] 60% of exports and the 80% of imports from the Region of Murcia are made through the port of Cartagena.^[4] More than 40% of the tourism that Cartagena receives is made by its port.^[5]

Port of Cartagena
View of the inner port
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Location
Country	Spain
Location	Cartagena
Coordinates	37°35′00″N 0°59′00″W
UN/LOCODE	ESCAR[1]
Details
Operated by	Port Authority of Cartagena
Type of harbour	Commercial port, naval base, fishing port, marina
Statistics
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It historical importance relies on both the good harbour offered by the natural bay and its strategic location near the East–West maritime route linking the Suez Canal to the strait of Gibraltar.^[6] It was used by the Punic civilization, and then by Romans. Besides its location, it also was appreciated at the time because of the metal ore mining (argentifourous galenas) in the surrounding mountains as well as the esparto exports.^[7]

In 2006, the Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena proposed the expansion of the port with a new dock in El Gorguel. The estimated cost exceeded 1500 million of euros.^[8] The Port of Cartagena has two independent docks (Cartagena and Escombreras), separated from each other by a distance of 5 km by road and 1.5 miles by sea.^[9]

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  Puerto de Cartagena, by Mariano Ramón Sánchez (1793)
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  New outer dock of Escombreras

References

Citations

1. "UNLOCODE (ES) - SPAIN". service.unece.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
2. "Resumen general del tráfico portuario" (PDF). Puertos del Estado (in Spanish). Dirección de Planificación y Desarrollo, Departamento de Estadística. Ministerio de Fomento, Gobierno de España. January 2019. p. 29. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
3. "Estadísticas. Resumen de movimiento de mercancías al mes de septiembre de 2015". Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (in Spanish). Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. September 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
4. "El puerto de Cartagena como infraestructura logística de apoyo a las empresas exportadoras". Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (in Spanish). Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. 3 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
5. "Noticias". CARM.es (in Spanish). 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
6. Morales Gil 2004, pp. 107–108.
7. Morales Gil 2004, pp. 110.
8. "Informe técnico sobre el impacto de la instalación de una dársena de contenedores en El Gorguel" (PDF). Fundación Sierra Minera (in Spanish): 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
9. "Declaración Ambiental 2009" (PDF). Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena (in Spanish). Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. 2010. p. 54. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

Bibliography

• Morales Gil, Alfredo (2004). "Trascendencia territorial del puerto de Cartagena". Investigaciones Geográficas (33). San Vicente del Raspeig: Universidad de Alicante. ISSN 1989-9890.

External links

• Puerto de Cartagena, Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena
• Puertos del Estado
• El Puerto de Cartagena en Google Maps