Port Tarragona

Port Tarragona is located in one of the most important industrial areas in the Mediterranean, next to the South Europe major chemical cluster (ChemMed Tarragona) where all the main raw material are imported. It is an area with Spain’s most important Petrochemical complex and a large concentration of manufacturing and processing, because of the excellent location and accessibility from the area to the inner European markets. Tarragona production accounts for 25% of Spanish production and represent 50% of Catalonia production. The particularity of Tarragona is its chemical cluster. The north and south poles are both inked to the port via road and pipeline.

Port Tarragona continues to be one of the most important and leading Ports in Spain with 33 million tons handled in 2023. The main traffic of the Port is related with the local industry. More than 60% of the port traffic is about liquid, and storage capacities of independent terminals are increasing. In 2024 is about 900.000 cubic meters and the port expects to exceed this capacity by 1 million tonnes during the next few years.

Port Tarragona strives to improve its installations and services each and every day to become a more secure, sustainable and involved port for petrochemical products. Congestion does not exist in Tarragona and additional benefits are provided such as one of the deepest water depth in the Mediterranean Sea. 

One of the key strategies of Port Tarragona is to become a reference port for new traffics which come from the energy transition, especially for hydrogen and derivatives, and not only in the Mediterranean, but also in Europe. We are working in several projects about those new flows – one of them is a new hydrogen pipeline connection within the chemical cluster and the final connection to the H2MED project.