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1 Press dossier PAGE 1/9 10 February 2012 A diversified port The Port of Barcelona is Catalonia's main transport and services infrastructure and a benchmark port in the Euromediterranean area. Its area of influence stretches through the south and centre of Europe and North Africa and is the logistics gateway that links markets as far distant as the Far East and Latin America. With more than 100 regular shipping lines operated by 163 shipowners connecting Barcelona with 850 ports in the five continents, Barcelona is Spain s main port for international traffic. It is specialised in general cargo and high value added cargo such as consumer goods, electronics products and vehicles. The Port in figures: The Port generates 32,000 jobs, of which 14,000 directly. Barcelona is Spain's leading port for turnover and goods value. 77% of Catalonia's economic activity sectors are customers of the Port. The Port channels 71% of Catalonia's external maritime trade and 21% of the national total. The Port moved goods worth EUR billion in The last few years have witnessed a far-reaching process of concentration and specialisation of the terminals, which are privately managed and operated under a concessionary regime by companies that compete with each other. The Port currently has thirty goods terminals, which are specialised in containers, vehicles, coffee and cocoa, fruit, metal products, solid and liquid bulks, and passengers. Barcelona therefore has a highly diversified port, which we could almost describe as four-in-one: the commercial port; cruiser port; logistics port; and the citizen's port, called the Port Vell. Commercial port Barcelona has two large container terminals (TCB and TerCat), both of which are undergoing enlargement up to an overall capacity of 5 Million TEU (Twenty-Foot- Equivalent, the standard container unit). Another kind of strategic traffic for the Port is new vehicles, which are managed by two specialised terminals: Autoterminal and Setram. The Contradic wharf houses the main terminals for solid bulks (cereals, soya bean, minerals, cement, etc). The Barcelona Ferry Terminal operates traffic with the Balearic Islands and Short Sea Shipping services (mixed passenger and ro-ro cargo) to different destinations around the Mediterranean. Work will begin in 2012 on a new Short Sea Shipping terminal on the Costa wharf, to be managed by the Grimaldi company.

2 PAGE 2/9 Furthermore, the Port Nou multipurpose terminal, which is also being expanded, serves shipping lines carrying vehicles, containers and special projects, such as the heavy lift. The Port of Barcelona also plays a leading role in receiving, storing and distributing the country's energy resources. The Energy wharf is one of the most important points for unloading and channelling natural gas in Spain, and also concentrates the reception and distribution of gasolines, gas oils and bio diesel for the automobile sector. In 2010, the company Gas Natural set up an 850 MW capacity combined cycle power plant to provide a sustainable response to the growing energy demands of the Port and the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The Energy wharf has the deepest liquid bulk berth in the entire Western Mediterranean, and is fitted out to receive the largest tankers on the market, which are up to 275 metres long and weigh up to 175,000 tonnes. This berth makes the Port of Barcelona the main logistics distribution hub for petroleum products in the Mediterranean and North Africa. This position will be boosted further by the enlargement works underway in two hydrocarbons terminals: Meroil and Tradebe. With an investment of EUR 110 million (50 million by Meroil and 60 million by Tradebe), these actions will make it possible to increase the Port's capacity to handle petroleum products to 8 million tonnes per year. Cruiser port With 2.5 million cruise passengers a year, Barcelona is the leading cruiser port in Europe and the fourth turnaround port worldwide, after the three main Florida ports. It boasts seven passenger terminals dedicated exclusively to cruisers, all of which are equipped with state-of-the-art services and prepared to service the large vessels with a capacity for 6,000 passengers. Security, which is a very important issue for the sector, quality of service and the attraction of Barcelona and Catalonia have led nearly all cruisers plying the Western Mediterranean to choose Barcelona as a stopover or turnaround port. During the last decade, Barcelona Port Authority and the various operators have invested EUR 80.3 million in building and improving cruiser infrastructures. Creuers del Port de Barcelona, which manages five of the Port s seven terminals, has invested more than EUR 65 million in modernising and enlarging its facilities over the past few years. Likewise, the Carnival Group invested EUR 12 million on Terminal D (Palacruceros), which came on stream in 2007.

3 PAGE 3/9 Logistics port The Port of Barcelona has led the field in developing logistics services linked to port activity. The Port of Barcelona's Logistics Activities Area (or ZAL) is a multimodal centre connected to all the transport infrastructures within a radius of less than five kilometres and offers its customers bespoke services, hiring out made-to-measure industrial units and covering all of their complementary needs through the Service Center. The ZAL also boasts a strategic location; its own Customs regime; integrated telecommunications service; economies of scale; and synergies among its companies. Phase one of the ZAL, covering 63 hectares and set up in 1993, is now fully occupied. Phase two, offering a further 143 hectares dedicated to logistics activity, is almost completely sold and already has a great many units up and running, hosting customers such as Decathlon and Carrefour. The more than 130 companies already set up in the ZAL include some of the main national and international freight forwarders and logistics operators as well as several large multinationals requiring full distribution services. The ZAL can attend to the needs of companies wishing to bring together distribution and transport activities, providing added value to their goods. In addition to the logistics areas in the Llobregat delta area, the ZAL is one of the main factors helping the Port of Barcelona to become the main goods distribution platform in Southern Europe. Citizens' port (Port Vell) The Port Vell, or Old Port, is the urban port open to the general public and has been held up as a worldwide paradigm of port-city integration. The 56 hectares of this area host the World Trade Center Barcelona, an office complex that opened in 1999, offering the latest services for the maritime port business and foreign trade; the fivestar Grand Marina hotel; the Maremagnum leisure complex with shops, bars and restaurants; the Aquarium sea life centre; the large-format Imax cinema; an 8-screen cinema complex; a wide offer of sailing and water sports activities: the Marina Port Vell and the Nàutic and Marítim clubs; the Maritime Museum and the Catalan History Museum; as well as a wide range of shops and eateries. It is a favourite spot for Barcelona residents and visitors alike, a fact borne out by the 16 million visitors that go there each year. The success of the Port Vell has contributed to popularising the Port of Barcelona and bringing it closer to the citizens and tourists, making them feel at home there. The area of land reclaimed from the sea by the North Entrance mouth is the site of an ambitious land planning project designed by the architect Ricardo Bofill, which was

4 PAGE 4/9 opened in October The new area includes the Hotel W Barcelona, a unique 90- metre high building in the shape of a sail unfurled into the wind, which has become a new icon of Barcelona's seafront. Phase two of this project includes a two-building complex, also designed by Ricardo Bofill, which will hold the head office of the Desigual fashion brand. There will also be a new marina for nautical and pleasure craft and public facilities located on one of the best viewpoints along Barcelona's coastline. Beyond the Port: the hinterland The Port's activity is not concentrated in the port precinct only, nor does it end within the limits marked by the wharves and its border with the city, but is the gateway to a hinterland spreading right across the Iberian peninsula and beyond, into continental Europe and North Africa. Driven by the desire to bring the Port and its services closer to the operators and end customers, the Port of Barcelona has set up a network of inland cargo terminals. Conceived as a series of local infrastructures, the inland terminals help operators and shippers (importers and exporters) to create more efficient logistics chains and channel their products through Barcelona. The keystones to this networked port are: The Zaragoza Goods Terminal (tmz) This terminal opened in 2001 as a platform for the imports and exports of Aragon, Navarre and La Rioja. It has a rail terminal offering many regular services connecting the Port through Zaragoza with several destinations along the Ebro and northern peninsular rail corridor. The Toulouse Goods Terminal (tmt) This brings the Port of Barcelona's services closer to its customers north of the Pyrenees (Midi-Pyrenees and Aquitaine). Since 2010 it has included a Logistics Activities Area (the ZAL Toulouse), a logistics and services platform facilitating international maritime trade to the region's importers and exporters via the Port of Barcelona. Saint Charles Container Terminal (Perpignan) The Port holds 5% of the shares of the company that manages the Saint Charles Container Terminal, located in Perpignan, which is one of southern Europe's main logistics and distribution centres for vegetables and fresh products. The Port of

5 PAGE 5/9 Barcelona aims to open its own goods terminal shortly in Perpignan, an ideal site for the multimodal connections of French and European traffics. Dry ports of Coslada in Madrid, and Azuqueca de Henares and Yunquera de Henares in Guadalajara Barcelona operates in the dry ports of Coslada and Azuqueca de Henares to provide services to the major logistics and consumption area of the capital of Spain and the Community of Madrid, and connects with the remaining markets of the Iberian Peninsula. Along with other partners, the Port has recently set up a new company called Terminal Intermodal Marítima Centro, SL, in which Barcelona Port Authority holds a 49% stake. This company will develop a new inland maritime infrastructure called the Central Multimodal Inland Terminal in the municipality of Yunquera de Henares, in Guadalajara province. In addition to this, the Port of Barcelona has increased its stake in the company Puerto Seco Azuqueca de Henares, a services infrastructure for goods transport covering an area of 60,016 square metres. These initiatives will help to boost the redistribution of goods from our port in the centre of the peninsula, while helping to direct new export flows generated in the Spanish interior, one of the most dynamic areas of Spain, towards Barcelona. El Far de l Empordà Multimodal Terminal and Vilamalla Terminal (Girona) The Port of Barcelona and Cimalsa have set up a company called Terminal Intermodal de l'empordà (TIE) to build a major hub of multimodal freight logistics activity in Catalonia and the Iberian peninsula, which will comprise the future El Far de l Empordà Multimodal Terminal and the current Vilamalla Terminal, both of which are located close to the Logis Empordà storage and distribution centre east of Figueres, just 35 kilometres from the French border. Multimodality: motorways of the sea and railways The Port of Barcelona brings together the largest offer of logistics and transport services in the Iberian Peninsula and Southern Europe. The interconnection of all the modes of transport (port, airport, motorways, and railway) within a 5-kilometre radius, and its location in an environment offering the best services to the transport and logistics sector make the Port one of the main commercial, transport and distribution centres in the Mediterranean area.

6 PAGE 6/9 Motorways of the sea Short Sea Shipping (SSS) services are mixed ro-ro and passenger shipping lines that connect ports of different countries and make it possible to shift heavy goods traffic from the roads to the maritime mode. Barcelona is the only port of the Spanish State with regular, well-consolidated and high-quality SSS lines. It operates daily services linking Barcelona with several destinations in Italy such as Genoa, Civitavecchia (Rome), Livorno and Porto Torres. The Port also operates regular services with Tangiers and Tunis. The Port of Barcelona has made a firm commitment to SSS as a sustainable model of transport. SSS involves significant improvements for logistics companies, is economically more competitive than road transport and represents a substantial environmental improvement in the light of the overcrowding of the large European road networks and the problems of traffic and pollution caused by the exclusive use of lorries. To promote SSS traffic, the Port of Barcelona set up the School European of Short Sea Shipping in This innovative training method allows course participants (professionals of the logistics sector and hauliers or students) to gain a direct knowledge of the workings and the advantages offered by this particular kind of transport. The courses are organised on board SSS vessels plying the routes between Barcelona and Genoa or Rome. A commitment to railways Rail traffic at the Port of Barcelona has increased considerably over the last few years, due mainly to investments in rail infrastructures made by the Port Authority and to the growing supply of services from private operators. The Port's share of rail transport increased from 2.6% in 2006 to 11% in The Port Authority aims to achieve a rail share of 30%. In January 2011, Barcelona became the first Spanish state port connected to the rest of Europe using International gauge. For container transport by land, the Port has regular rail lines with Madrid, Zaragoza, Lyon, Toulouse, Bilbao, Lisbon, Lleida, Burgos and Vitoria-Jundiz, among other places. The first European gauge goods train to travel from the Port of Barcelona to France left the Morrot terminal (run by Adif) at the end of The works commissioned by the Port Authority have turned Barcelona into the first Spanish State port able to send and receive goods using the international rail gauge. Since January 2011, all the Port's

7 PAGE 7/9 container terminals offer direct rail services with Europe, following the laying of the third track on the conventional line, making it possible to overcome the limitations of travelling on Iberian gauge tracks. Adapting this stretch of railway lines to European gauge has provided a significant boost for the Barcelyon Express rail service, set up by the Port of Barcelona in February 2009 with the cooperation of Renfe and Naviland Cargo. Offering three weekly connections between Barcelona and Lyon, France's most important rail freight hub, this line has become more competitive, sustainable and reliable due to the time saved. It now takes only six hours to link Barcelona and Lyon by rail. In addition, the new track caters for much longer trains - it can now support trains up to 750 metres long, which is a notable competitive improvement over the 450-metre long trains operating to date. Once it reaches the Venissieux terminal, the Barcelyon Express service makes it possible to forward containers from the Port of Barcelona to a great network of destinations in Central and Northern Europe, such as Antwerp, Le Havre, Rotterdam and Switzerland. The Port also has a container rail service to Toulouse and another rail service for new vehicles to Fuersterhausen in Germany. RAIL TRAFFIC 2011 Accumulated 2010 Accumulated 2011 Increase 2010/2011 Containers (in TEU) 103, , % New vehicles (in units) 128, , % Solid bulks (Iberian gauge, in 3,930 16, % tonnes) Bulks (metric gauge, in tonnes) 246, , % Enlargement of the Port The Port is currently immersed in a major enlargement process to increase its area and loading capacity. As a prior condition for gaining space and performing the enlargement, the Spanish Ministry of the Environment diverted the mouth of the River Llobregat two kilometres to the south in This allowed the Port of Barcelona to build two fundamental elements of the enlargement - the South seawall and the extension of the East seawall, both of which were completed at the end of These seawalls are defences that generate an area of sheltered waters in which to build the loading terminals. With the new seawalls, the Port of Barcelona has doubled the area that was available in 2000, which now stands at 1,300 hectares of land. The South seawall, which is 4,800 metres long and has a maximum draught of 22 metres, cost EUR

8 PAGE 8/9 340 million, while the works for extending the East seawall by 2,025 metres totalled EUR 225 million. The sheltering works were completed with the execution of certain coastal corrective measures that involved creating a beach south of the diverted river course, involving an investment of EUR 26 million. The cost of this new infrastructure, totalling EUR 591 million, is the largest investment the Port has ever made. Of this amount, EUR 277 million (or 53% of the total) were subsidised by the EU Cohesion Fund. The first of these infrastructures - the Prat wharf, which will hold the Port of Barcelona's new container terminal - has already been built and will come into service in July The terminal will be managed by the company TerCat (70% owned by the multinational Hutchison Port Holding, which is the world's number one terminal operator). Hutchison is investing more than EUR 300 million in Phase one to perform the works of the terminal and install cranes and machinery. The concession on the Prat wharf lasts for 30 years and covers the management of a terminal covering 100 hectares, with a wharf line of 1,500 metres and a draught of 16.5 metres, with a total handling capacity of 2,650,000 TEU (i.e. containers) per year. This facility will be the most advanced semiautomated terminal in the Mediterranean area. The other terminals in the enlargement will be awarded through a public tender process as the works advance and new areas are generated. One of the actions undertaken to increase the Port's area is the enlargement of the Sud wharf, which will involve an investment of EUR 56 million to create 18 hectares of new port land for the TCB container terminal. The enlargement of this terminal will come on stream in Since 2000, the Port has generated investment to the tune of more than EUR 3 billion from both the public and the private sectors. A further EUR 1 billion will be invested up to 2014 to complete the enlargement works of the infrastructure. For the period , the Port of Barcelona will therefore have attracted EUR 4 billion in investment from the public sector (infrastructure) and from the private sector (installations, machinery and plant cargo handling equipment). The Port of Barcelona has drawn on various methods to finance these works: own resources (cash flow), Cohesion Funds (for building sheltering seawalls), loans (via the European Investment Bank) and the participation of private capital. In sum, the enlargement will allow the Port of Barcelona to provide a speedy and efficient response to its customers' needs for transport, distribution and logistics and help it to become an infrastructure able to guarantee the competitiveness of the Catalan and Spanish productive sector. Quality and services

9 PAGE 9/9 The Port of Barcelona has set efficient management and customer orientation as its top priorities, as they are key elements in an increasingly competitive and complex field such as ports. One very important step in this direction is the new Quality Plan (Port of Barcelona Efficiency Network), which entails a programme of commitments approved through cooperation among the various players within the Port Community. More than fifty companies have already been certified under the Port of Barcelona Efficiency Network quality brand, in operation since May The companies that have received the quality stamp proving that they are accredited to develop their processes in line with maximum efficiency standards represent the main business areas within the Port Community - freight forwarders and Customs agents, shipping agents, hauliers and terminals. The Efficiency Network quality brand emerged because the companies operating in the Port wished to carry out an in-depth review of the objectives and contents of the Quality Plan set up in The Efficiency Network adapts the Port's former Quality Plan to the new needs of the market, extending its scope of action and bringing in a new programme of commitments related to three major areas: reliability in operations, information and transparency, and cargo safety. The plan uses efficiency indicators to measure the quality of the processes associated to the movement of goods through the Port, monitoring the large-scale compliance of the commitments established, and obtain information making it possible to improve standards of service and to communicate the degree of reliability of the Port's operations and activities. Principal magnitudes of traffic in the Port TRAFFICS 2011 Accumulated 2010 Accumulated 2011 Increase 2009/2010 Total traffic (in tonnes) 42,978,278 43,065, % Containers (in TEU) 1,948,422 2,033, % Passengers 3,457,939 3,827, % New vehicles 553, , %

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