T-1 – Ship rate 2012

Chapter II. Section 4, Subsection 1.

• Art. 194. The taxable event of this rate applies to the ships’ use in the waters inside the port’s service area and the permanent port buildings and facilities, which allow access by sea to the berth or anchorage areas.

• Art. 195.

  • The substitute taxpayer is the shipping agent in general. At docks, jetties and port berthing facilities that are granted under concession, the licence holder or authorised person shall be liable for the payment of this rate.

  • The taxpayer is the owner, ship or boat owner or captain or master of the ship.

• Art. 196. The accrual of the rate shall be paid when the vessel enters the waters of the port’s service area.

• Art. 197.

  • Basic Amount:

Short sea shipping	Rest
(S) 1.30 Euros	(B) 1.50 Euros

• Total rate due: GT/100 x TIME* (HOUR OR PART THEREOF OR DAY) x (B) o (S) x COEFF.

• * MINIMUM: 3 hours per stopover MAXIMUM: 15 hours per stopover every 24 hours)

	COEFF.	SSS	OTHER
A) Berthing NOT under concession or authorizsation (normal berthing)
Berthed alongside to wharves	1.00	1.30€ GT/100	1.50€ GT/100
Berthed head on, abreast and to buoys	0.80	1.040€ GT/100	1.200€ GT/100
B) Berthing under concession or authorisation (specific wharves)
Berthings with sufficient water space granted under license or authorisation)
Berthed alongside wharves	0.60	0.78€ GT/100	0.90€ GT/100
Berthed head on, abreast and to buoys	0.50	0.65€ GT/100	0.75€ GT/100
Berthings without water space or insufficient space that is not granted under concession or authorisation (other specific wharves)
Berthed alongside wharves	0.70	0.91€ GT/100	1.05€ GT/100
Berthed head on, abreast and to buoys	0.60	0.78€ GT/100	0.90€ GT/100
C) Berthing or anchoring in ports on a concession basic	0.30	0.39€ GT/100	0.45€ GT/100
D) Berthing or anchoring of ships calling AREA I only for supplies, provisions or repairs
Maximum stay of 48 hours	0.25	0.325€ GT/100	0.375€ GT/100
Stay exceeding 48 hours	1.00	1.30€ GT/100	1.50€ GT/100
E) Prolonged time spent and prolonged use of berthing facilities NOT granted under concession or authorisation: G.T. MINIMUM 50 (DAY)
Internal traffic passenger and goods ships	4.00	—	6.00€ GT/100
Vessels used for provisioning or dredging	4,67	—	7,005€ GT/100
Afloat vessels under construction, undergoing major repairs, conversion, scrapping, OUT OF SHIPBUILDER’S YARD	1,33	—	1,995€ GT/100
Afloat vessels under construction, undergoing major repairs, conversion, scrapping, IN SHIPBUILDER’S YARD	0,50	—	0,75€ GT/100
Ships in legal deposit	1,00	—	1,50€ GT/100
Idle vessels, including fishing and floating devices	4,67	—	7,005€ GT/100
Buques destinados a la prestación de servicios de remolque, amarre, practicaje y otros servicios portuarios	2,33	—	3,495€ GT/100
Otros buques cuya estancia sea superior a 1 mes, a partir de que finalice dicho período	4,67	—	7,005€ GT/100
Prolonged time spent and prolonged used of berthing facilities granted under concession or authorisation (DAY)
Without water surface	0.70 S/5º	—	—
With water surface	0.60 S/5º	—	—
F) Non use of berthing or anchoring: facilities gross rate fee will be charged by 100/GT	2,00	—	3,00€ GT/100
G) Tourist cruise ships (these coefficients are compatible with those in Sections 1º, 2º and 3º)
In general	0,70	—	1,05€ GT/100
When making a stopover in a port considered as the HOME PORT	0,56	—	0,84€ GT/100
When belonging to the same cruise ship company, with a minimum of 12 stopovers/year or 8 stopovers with seasonal traffic considered as the HOME PORT	0,50	—	0,75€ GT/100
H) Pure RO-RO, RO-PAX, CON-RO AND FERRY (these coefficients are compatible with those in Sections 1º, 2º 3º)
In general (only short distance)	0,90	1,17€ GT/100	—
When integrated with a regular shipping service (only short distance)	0,60	0,78€ GT/100	—

• Art. 200.2 Berthing on weekends and public holidays. For the purposes of calculating the time spent on weekends or public holidays, and provided always that there have been no commercial operations, shall be: Between 12 p.m. Saturday or 6 p.m. the day before a public holiday until 8 a.m. Monday or the day following the public holiday, : MAXIMUM 5 HOURS

  • When the time spent during that period exceeds 5 hours, the commencement of the time spent for the calculation of the maximum limit of 15 hours every 24 hours shall be measured from 8 a.m. Monday or the day following the public holiday.

  • A berthing request for a public holiday must be made to the Bilbao Port Authority before the weekend..

• Art.201.

  • By number of stopovers. Depending on the number of stopovers at the same port and during a calendar year made by ships that provide a SPECIFIC KIND OF TRAFFIC and are operated by the same shipping company or by a group of various shipping companies with shared use agreements in relation to the ships, the rate charge shall be multiplied, on prior request by the taxpayer, by the following coefficients:

  Stopover NO.	Shipping service coefficient	Regular shipping service coefficient
  From stopover 1 to stopover 12	1,00	0,95
  From stopover 13 to stopover 26	0,95	0,90
  From stopover 27 to stopover 52	0,85	0,80
  From stopover 53 to stopover 104	0,75	0,70
  From stopover 105 to 156	0,65	0,60
  From stopover 157 to stopover 312	0,55	0,50
  From stopover 313 to stopover 365	0,45	0,40
  From stopover 366 onwards	0,35	0,30

  • Short sea shipping (SSS) is deemed as that shipping service for the carriage of goods and/or passenger traffic made using ships whose sea route plies only in Europe between geographically located European ports or between those ports and ports situated in non-European countries having a coastline on the landlocked seas bordering Europe, including its islands or non-sovereign territories of Europe. This concept is also broadened to include sea shipping between the Member States of the European Union and Norway and Iceland and other Member States of the Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas.

  • Shipping service: Is that service which provides a specific kind of traffic in a port, where the ship or group of ships of the same shipping company or cruise ship company together with other specific ships, carrying the same type or nature of goods or a specific type of passage, transport parts or freight unit.

  • Regular shipping service: Shipping service that regularly and generally advertises its services and which regularly plies between origins, destinations and pre-established dates and with at least 24 stopovers per year.

DISCOUNTS

Article 245 Section 6th

• 1 – To encourage better environmental practices, the Port Authority will apply the following discounts

  • a) When the vessels certify compliance with certain conditions with respect to the environmental friendliness, and furthermore, the shipping company or, where appropriate, to which the vessel is the property of the ship owner, has a signed agreement with the Port Authority in terms of better environmental practices related to the operations and the stay of vessels in the port, to the vessel rate will apply a 5% discount.

• 2 – To increase quality in the rendering of services

  • a) When the shipping company has in force a services certificate whose scope includes all portbased ship operations, based on quality service benchmarks approved by State Ports or, where appropriate, in the specific reference documents approved in its implementation by the Port Authority, will apply a 5% discount to the vessel rate

• 3 – To encourage securing customers, customer loyalty and growth in traffic and shipping services that contribute to economic and social development of the economic influence area of the ports or that of Spain as a whole, discounts may be applied therein, but not greater than 40 % of the vessel rates fee. (Law 2/2012, of 29 June, on the General State Budget for 2012)