The Port Authority of Santander (APS) has begun work this Friday on the new Raos 6 wharf, which involves an investment of 22.8 million euros and has an execution period of twenty months.
The president of the APS, César Díaz, highlighted during the ceremony for the laying of the first stone of the Raos 6 wharf that this infrastructure represents “an important step” within the port’s strategy “to increase its capacity and optimize port operations at the public wharves.”
At this start of the work, the senior port leader was accompanied by the president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga; the Government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares; the mayor of Santander, Gema Igual; the Ministers of Industry and Development, Eduardo Arasti and Roberto Media, respectively; and the mayor of Camargo, Diego Movellán.
Díaz explained that “the increase in activity at the Raos North Jetty and the good progress of the container terminal have created the need to generate more berthing line as soon as possible, something we will be able to achieve thanks to this new construction, intended for general cargo and solid bulk traffic.”
In this way, “we will be able to offer operators the possibility of streamlining their work to the maximum under optimal conditions of productivity and quality,” in line with the efficiency objectives pursued by the port institution.
“Our goal is to continue being the engine of economic activity and job generator in the region, while reinforcing our position as a reference port in northern Spain and on the European Atlantic facade,” he stated.
The construction of the new wharf will mean, in the words of the APS president, “an investment of almost 23 million euros, fully financed with the Port Authority of Santander’s own resources,” and will be executed within a period of 20 months by the UTE formed by the companies SIEC and SATO.
This work is included in the APS Investment Plan for the period 2025-2029, which foresees a public-private investment of 270.3 million euros.
The Raos 6 project consists of the construction of a new 212-meter-long multipurpose wharf using a combined sheet pile and steel profile wall solution, anchored with ties to a micropiled pile cap, for a design draft of 12 meters deep.
“This new infrastructure, which will be aligned with Raos 5, will allow for solid bulk operations with discharge onto hopper-trucks, or at the front line with rapid lifting, as well as general cargo,” concluded the APS.
