The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Santander has met for the first time after the inauguration as president of José Joaquín Martínez Sieso, who initiated his speech welcoming the directors and then exposing the master lines to follow In this new stage in which important challenges such as the rehabilitation and reorganization of the Maritime Front and the 2014 candle world are opened for the port of Santander.
In the Council, the evolution of the port traffic in the first half of this year has been informed, which reached 2,564,957 tons, which produces an increase of 9.84 %compared to the same period of 2010. It is continued, it is continued, Therefore, recovery after the fall experienced in 2008 and 2009 as a consequence of the economic recession. This percentage increase in traffic is much higher than the average of the state -owned ports, which was 5.6 % in the same period.
Breaking down this general data, it has been specified that solid bulk traffic has been 1,502,748 tons, 11.51% higher than the same period traffic in 2010, the recovery of fertilizer traffic, sodium carbonate, coal, coal and manganese. For its part, the general merchandise traffic has reached 889,430 tons, 14.67%more than in the previous year, due to the increase in car traffic, steel products and the filled load from ferries. This is the highest figure of the analyzed period and is the historical record of this traffic in the port of Santander. In the rolled load traffic, it was reached at 682,061 tons, representing an increase of 10.82% compared to the previous period, occupying the Santander Puerto the seventh place in this type of load within the whole of the port system and the first Among the Cantabrian ports. Finally, it has been reported that car traffic has had a spectacular rise of more than 19% reaching 168,000 units and passenger traffic of more than 7% with 95,000 users.
At the meeting, the president, to appoint D. Eduardo Arasti, Minister of Industry and Technological Development of the Government of Cantabria, has been appointed at the proposal of the President, in accordance with the provisions of article 42 of the Ports Law of the State and the Merchant Marine.
In the same way, the Council of the Collaboration Agreement to formalize between the Higher Sports Council, the Government of Cantabria, the City Council of Santander, the Royal Spanish Federation of Vela, the Royal Maritime Club of Santander and the Port Authority for the Performing the works projected for the celebration of the world of the world of Vela Isaf 2014
The General Protocol of Intentions promoted by the Junta de Castilla y León, the City of Valladolid and the Port Authority for the impulse and development of a “dry port” in the city of Valladolid and its integration into its integration and its integration into the “Agrifood Park” project of the Castilian capital.
To facilitate the development of the agreement reached in the Inter -administrative Agreement for the urban rearrangement of the Maritime Front, signed on last March 19, the proposal for the modification of the delimitation of the port spaces and uses of the port of Santander has been submitted to the Council , agreeing to initiate its process in accordance with Law 48/2003 on the economic regime and provision of services in the ports of general interest, the first step to proceed after its approval by the Ministry of Promotion to the Disaffection of the Port Lands provided for in the aforementioned agreement.