The Port of Tarragona’s Publications Service was founded in November 2004 with the aim of collecting and managing all the published work that had, until then, been carried out by the Port of Tarragona, as well as establishing the criteria to be pursued in the authority’s publications, focused on disseminating the Port and maritime heritage, and designing an image and an appropriate high-quality editorial line.
The Service of Publications organises jointly with the Port Archive the Prize of Research Port of Tarragona that summons every two years.
Since its inception, and in conjunction with the Port Archive, the Publications Service has organised the exchange of publications, in order to provide an outlet for the publications while at the same time adding others for the Archive’s Library.
The Port of Tarragona’s various collections of publications are open to all those wishing to contribute works that deal with maritime or Port affairs in general, or with the coast of the province of Tarragona in particular. Novels or narratives are however excluded. The works presented therefore need to be completed, with their linguistic, historical and/or technical content corrected. This is an indispensable condition for evaluating them.
The Port of Tarragona announced the Port of Tarragona Short Narrative Award in 2014, with the aim of promoting the literary use of Catalan in schools in the Tarragona area.
The winning works and selected ones from the last awards can be found in digital format in this same section.
Rules for the Port of Tarragona 8th Short Narrative Award.
Format epub
The emergence of new technologies in the publishing world has led to a reduction in economic and environmental costs. This improvement has led to many publishing companies moving towards the digital version of their books, especially when, in the majority of cases, the text concerned is not a novel.
The Publications Service has also begun providing its collection in digital format, in three formats: epub, mobi and PDF.