The new container terminal at the port of Santander will start operations in January 2023.
On Monday, February 21, will take place the beginning of the works of the logistics platform, which will be called Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander, with the laying of the first stone.
For the president of the APS this new infrastructure is "the fulfillment of a historical aspiration that will provide the entire industry of Cantabria and the rest of our hinterland of a catalog of services virtually complete."
Santander 16-02-22. The president of the Port Authority, Francisco Martin, announced today that next Monday Boluda Shipping will start the works of the new container terminal, a logistics platform that will be called Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander and is expected to enter service in the first quarter of 2023.
For Martin this is "great news" that will mean that "Cantabrian companies have a direct way to import and export through the container and that will allow the increase of approximately one million tons in traffic moved in our port". The president of the APS has also pointed out that the objective is "to advance in the transformation of our business model to increase the percentage of general cargo by expanding the product catalog with a terminal that increases the number of destinations".
This celebration will also be attended by, among others, the president of the Government of Cantabria, Miguel Angel Revilla; the Minister of Industry, Francisco Javier Lopez Marcano; the director of Planning and Development of Puertos del Estado, Manuel Arana; the president of Boluda Corporación Marítima, Vicente Boluda and the president, vice president and CEO of Boluda Shipping, Alfonso Serrat, Ignacio Boluda and Gorka Carrillo, respectively.
The concession for the works and operation of the maritime terminal was awarded by the Board of Directors of the Santander Port Authority, on December 16, 2020, to NSCT Investment, a company created by Boluda. Dragados has been the company awarded the contract for the execution of the works, which will start next March.
Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander will occupy an area of around 67,000 square meters and will have a mooring line of 472 meters of quay. Apart from the vessels of other companies that carry out the stowage and unstowage of their goods, Boluda Lines, the shipping company of Boluda Shipping -the international transport and logistics division of Boluda Corporación Marítima-, plans to make one call per week, with connections in ports such as Villagarcía, Leixoes, Setúbal, Las Palmas and Tenerife, as well as in Northern Europe.
Investment
Boluda Maritime Terminals Santander's commitment is to maintain a minimum annual traffic of import and export of goods of at least 35,000 TEUs during the first five years of the concession and, from that year onwards, of 44,823 TEUs per year.
The maritime company contemplates an investment of 20 million euros in civil works, installations, construction and purchase of machinery. An investment that, with the inclusion of equipment repairs, is estimated to reach 38.5 million euros during the 40 years set for the concession.
With this initiative, the port of Santander joins the ports in which the subsidiary Boluda Maritime Terminals, belonging to the Boluda Shipping Division, manages the logistics of stevedoring and unstowing of goods, located in Las Palmas, Tenerife, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Seville and Villagarcía. Next April, this subsidiary is expected to start operating another terminal in the Canary Islands, this time in the port of Arrecife.