FAQ

Every day the vessel report provides information on the arrival, departure and stay of the vessels in port and on the transaction they are carrying out.

There is a directory will all the companies working in the Port of Bilbao.

Information of prices offered to customers (Taxes and Tariffs) for ships and cargo is available in the Prices offered to customers (Taxes and Tariffs) section. To know the shipping cost to a given country or particular shipping liner, search for the information in shipping lines where you will find the consignee agent to contact. If you need help to organise the transport, please contact the Bilbao Freight Forwarder sector.

Since the beginning of the expansion works in 1992, the Port Authority has adequately provided for new shipping and intermodal requirements. In the Docks and Terminals section, you will find information on the structure of the Port of Bilbao. Contact us to find out possibilities of available space. Do not forget to indicate the type of activity and approximate surface area required.

There is currently one ferry service between the Port of Bilbao and Portsmouth, in the South of England.carrying passengers with or without a vehicle, in addition to lorries. For detailed information on this service and to contact the company that operate it, visit the ferry section.

Last year, the Port of Bilbao registered traffic of 38 million tonnes of cargo and 179.582 passengers. You will find more detailed information on cargo traffic per geographical area, country and type of container in the Statistics section.

By definition, Short Sea Shipping (SSS) is the transport of goods and passengers in the European Union, or between the latter and non European riverside countries in the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic Seas and Norway and Iceland. There is a wide offer of SSS services from the Port of Bilbao. For more information visit the section.

Sea motorways are configured as the ideal routes between two ports in terms of viability, profitability and delivery times, with regard to the same route by road. Visit the ro-ro section to discover which services admit ro-ro cargo. You can find information on future projects in the motorways of the sea section.

This web page will be extremely useful. The web map and the search engine can help you to find the information you require. You can find a selection of leaflets in the publications section that can be downloaded in Acrobat PDF. For more specific information, please send us an e-mail.