Port accessSince the Port Authority started the Ezagutu Portua programme ten years ago, some 60,000 people of all ages have visited the Port of Bilbao. The programme is aimed at the non-professional and non-business public with an interest in learning, in a relaxed and entertaining way, about the activity of the main Spanish port on the Atlantic coast, the different types of traffic that it handles at its main sites in Santurtzi and Zierbena and its economic importance.
56% of the groups that have visited the port since 2014 have been school children, and 28% students from vocational training courses and universities. These groups visit the port from Monday to Friday, as weekend visits are reserved for the general public. In all cases, the visits are guided tours by coach.
All tours are free. To book a place, go to the website www.bilbaoport.eus (direct link: https://www.bilbaoport.eus/responsabilidad-social-corporativa-rsc/ezagutu-portua/)
The coach tour goes from the oldest part of the port in Santurtzi to the new docks reclaimed from the sea in Zierbena.
Highlights include the terminals for containers, roll-on/roll-off goods and oversized cargo such as wind turbine blades, warehouses of all kinds, including those for perishable products, laboratories for phytosanitary controls and the industrial area where large oil and gas tankers dock, where the first offshore wind farm in Spain was built.
