Today, the shipping company connects inland Spain with the UK and North-western Europe, all via the Bilbao hub which has turned into one of its key hubs in Spain. One of the reasons is that industry bodies and governments push the green agenda while clients look for reliable and stable alternatives to taking cargo off the road that support their own sustainable goals.
In addition to shortsea, WEC Lines is continuously expanding its shortsea network by adding onward intermodal connections. For Spain, this has resulted in four dedicated block trains operating with fixed schedules between Bilbao and Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, and Agoncillo in La Rioja.
Caesar Luikenaar, as well as other institutions and organizations of relevance in the Spanish and Basque International Trade, exporters and importers, logistic companies, collaborators and, of course, the commercial and management team, both from WEC Lines and Bilbao Port. The president of the Port Authority, Ricardo Barkala, stressed the importance of Bilbao as a hub for Spain in northern Europe, its commitment to sustainability and intermodality, and the important role played by WEC Line in this regard.
Our commitment to our customers to offer them an agile, competitive, and increasingly sustainable service is firm and, to achieve this, we need the collaboration of the shipping companies that, like WEC Lines, are committed to a serious and multidisciplinary port such as ours. Barkala also recalled that the Port of Bilbao is carrying out the electrification of its docks, so that ships can connect to the electricity grid and switch off their engines, which will reduce CO2 emissions, noise, and vibrations.
The BilbOPS initiative, which is expected to be operational in , requires an investment of 78 million, of which Container Number. Track and Trace. Search Schedule. Search Agents. Tracking Schedule Agents. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. Functional Functional Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
