WATCH: Barcelona Port launches major investments

For the second consecutive year, turnover exceeded €200 million, driven mainly by concession fees of €96 million and usage fees linked to port activity totalling €97 million.

“This places the Port of Barcelona in a sound financial position,” said Miriam Alaminos, deputy general director of Finance, Corporate Management and Strategy.

“It gives us the capacity to address a very ambitious investment agenda.”

Operating profit stood at €47 million, down 6% due to the extraordinary impact of financing the new Barcelona International Terminal coffee facility. The Port Authority is contributing €10 million to the €30 million project, which enables the expansion of Elian’s vegetable protein plant, a €200 million private investment positioning Barcelona as a strategic agri-food logistics hub in Europe. Without this one-off impact, operating profit would have reached €57 million, up 14%.

Projects

Port president José Alberto Carbonell said 2025 marked the foundations of a decisive transformation. “We have laid the groundwork to strengthen the port as a strategic Mediterranean logistics node and to deploy projects that expand capacity, modernise infrastructure and decarbonise activity,” he said.

“At the start of last year we committed to tendering seven major projects worth €332.5 million by the end of 2025 and we have not only met that goal but already awarded five of them.”

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The investment pace will continue in 2026, with nine major projects planned, totalling €338.7 million. These include new port enclosures for the future Catalunya wharf, upgrades to road and rail access, reinforcement of breakwaters to adapt to climate change and improved intermodality and port-city integration.