Bulk liquids - Tarragona Port Authority

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With top level infrastructures and draughts, supports local industry and is positioned on the Mediterranean as a Hub

LIQUIDBULK | The Port is the southern European leader in the chemical sector

The Port of Tarragona, with top level infrastructures and draughts, supports local industry and is positioned on theMediterranean as a Hub for the storage and distribution of petrochemical products.

The Port of Tarragona provides a diversified storage service. In first place, the investment in the Chemicals Dock, has allowed us to double the area of the Port devoted to the storage of bulk liquids. The extent of this area has currently grown from 18 hectares up to 36 hectares, and allows us to provide an opportunity for growth in the independent liquid storage terminals.

Secondly, our facilities can store a wide variety of liquid products with full safety guarantees, regardless of whether they are hydrocarbons, chemicals or other products derived from the energy transition, which we can store in three separate terminals. The current storage capacity exceeds +800,000 m3 and the intention is to grow in capacity year after year to 1.1 Mm3 in the next few years.

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Docking line
1,600 meters

Operating draught
from 1.5 rmeters

Storage
+800,000 cubic metres

Dixquimics pipelines
71 lines

Annual traffic
22 million tonnes

Port-industry harmony

Together, the companies of the chemical and petrochemical industry in Tarragona generate an annual production of 20 million tonnes, which represents 50% of the production of Catalonia, and 25% of that of Spain.

The Port of Tarragona is the logistics platform that is responsible for importing the raw materials required for the production processes in the chemical sector, and exporting the products derived from them.

For this reason, and above and beyond a shared strategic vision, the combined services between the chemical industry and the Port of Tarragona are one of the strengths of our logistics proposal that improves the competitiveness of local industries.

-Common pipelines rack, known as the Dixquimics Rack
-Regenerated water plant – a pioneer worldwide
-Chemical safety fire station, with professional and combined teams of fire-fighters
-Underwater outlet assembly to channel all the wastewater from companies
-Prevention plan and marine contingencies, by means of which the first chemical drill in a port in Spain was organised
-Communications network that aids coordination between safety installations and other public safety bodies

International standing | ChemMed

ChemMed, Tarragona’s logistics, industrial, academic and scientific, cluster was set up in 2014, bringing together the agents, companies, training and research centres, University and public authorities of the area.

The cluster is led by the Port of Tarragona and the AEQT (Associació d'Empreses Químiques de Tarragona – Association of Tarragona Chemical Companies) and AITASA (Industrial Waters of Tarragona)

Its goal is:

-To ensure the competitiveness of the chemical industry
-To attract new investments to the area
-To create wealth and value in a context of security and climate neutrality

ChemMed Tarragona, the Mediterranean chemical cluster, was set up in 2014

Added value

Experience

The traffic in bulk liquids represents more than 60% of the total volume of the Port of Tarragona. The Port’s experience and know-how allows it to be an epicentre for the movement and traffic of all kinds of products and goods such as crude oil, hydrocarbons, petrochemicals, chemicals, vegetable oils, or other chemical products, etc.; a process that is carried out in top level terminals with added-value services such as "Berth to Berth transhipment" or the intermodality which the Port’s infrastructure provides.

Efficiency

In Tarragona we do not suffer from congestions either on land or at sea. Weather conditions and a 365/24/7 service allow the Port to carry out all the operations efficiently. In addition, our Port is connected to the local industry and the national network Exolum, via pipeline.

Safety and sustainability

The Port is working to improve its facilities and services, with the aim of offering the best, safest, and most sustainable logistical option. In conjunction with the Tarragona petrochemical cluster, we have implemented safety stations at strategic points in the industrial estate and the Port zone, thereby combining the resources available for synchronising and improving the response to any incidents. In the same way we have a unique system throughout the Mediterranean: the Response Service Against Marine Pollution (Parc de Resposta Contra la Contaminació Marítima - PRCM), a combined service between the port terminals and the Port of Tarragona. The Port of Tarragona is also the first port in Spain with the double ISO 14001 and 50001 certification.

New opportunities in energy transition

Thanks to the joint work carried out at the ChemMed cluster and the close collaboration with the Hydrogen Valley of Catalonia, the Port of Tarragona wants to be a key logistics platform in the reception, expedition and use of new fuels and energy vectors that arise in the short, medium and long term.

-High experience in liquid and gas trafficking
-Synergies with the aim of decarbonising port activity and local industry -Top-level port facilities
-Open to new opportunities in this area

Port zones to traffic

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Intermodality in the Port of Tarragona

The Port of Tarragona believes wholeheartedly in intermodality as the way to optimise logistic chains and offer a better service to our clients, from both an economic and a sustainability point of view..

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