The Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has unveiled an ambitious investment plan for the state-owned port system, amounting to more than €7.000 billion for the period 2025-2029. This investment framework, called 'Horizon 2030', aims to boost competitiveness, drive growth, and advance the decarbonization of these strategic infrastructures for Spain.
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The announcement was made during a breakfast briefing organized by Port Newspaper in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where the minister presented the investment plan of State Ports. Approximately 80% of Spain's imports and 60% of its exports are carried out by sea.This underscores the vital importance of the port system, which generates more than 250.000 jobs and some 25.000 billion euros of economic activity annually.
More than 60% of the total amount, around 4.500 millones de euros, will be allocated to improvement, expansion and modernization of port infrastructure and facilities. This focus on infrastructure is crucial to increasing capacity and responding to growing demand and future challenges.
In addition, the plan breaks down investments in key areas:
Environmental sustainability: More than €1.000 billion will be invested in projects for the energy transition, such as the deployment of the system On-Shore Power Supply (OPS) for power supply to docked ships.
Access and Connectivity: More than 950 million euros will be allocated to improving road and rail access to ports to guarantee connectivity and competitiveness.
Port-City Projects: 335 million euros to bring ports closer to the public.
Security and Digitalization: 156 million for strengthening security and more than 80 million for digitization.
The minister highlighted that these investments They are not dependent on the General State Budgetsbut are financed with the "port system's own resources, a solid, efficient and sustainable system."
Among the most prominent projects to be financed are the new northern terminal of the Port of Valencia (more than 600 million euros), the developments in the south of Port of Barcelona, and the new Algeciras Maritime Station along with the electrification of docks and railway connections (together more than 300 million euros).
Connecting Spain with the World
This investment in ports is in addition to the €13.000 billion planned for the Spanish airport network (DORA III, 2027-2031), which implies a total investment exceeding 20.000 millones de euros in key infrastructures for Spain's global connectivity in the coming years.
Puente also highlighted the role of Port Land Accessibility Fund, which mobilizes more than 1.800 billion euros in 58 actions to improve the connection of the ports with the railway and the main road network.
Focus on the Autonomous Communities and the Canary Islands
By autonomous communities, Catalonia It will receive the largest investment with more than 1.500 billion euros, followed by Andalusia (around 1.300 billion) and the Valencian Community (almost 1.250 billion).
Canary IslandsThe site of the announcement will receive more than 607 million euros in the port plan, a figure that is added to more than 1.500 billion euros in airports (DORA III), totaling more than 2.100 billion euros until 2030-2031 to modernize its role as a strategic hub.
"The port of the future is not just a point of arrival or departure, but a space that generates value, innovation and sustainability," the minister concluded, emphasizing that the goal is to build a port system that is "more competitive, green and connected."
