Guadalquivir Maritime Terminal Bids for the Port of Seville Concession

The board of directors of the Port Authority of Seville will decide on July 28 whether to grant the concession for the container traffic package to the UTE Guadalquivir Maritime Terminal formed by Boluda (75%) and OPDR (25%), the only option that has been presented for the second tender called and published on May 25 in the BOE.

The concession has a duration of 30 years and encompasses all facilities related to container cargo movement at the Seville port, which includes the railway terminal at the Centenario wharf, a 350-meter-long docking line, and a ramp for ro-ro type ships, with a total area of 180,420 m².

In the previous bidding process, the two offers presented were rejected as it was deemed that neither the expected cargo traffic nor its economic-financial viability had been adequately justified. For this reason, the Port Authority of Seville has imposed stricter conditions, and only the aforementioned UTE Guadalquivir Maritime Terminal has re-applied.

The German-origin group OPDR, which has partnered with the group led by Vicente Boluda, is owned by the French multinational CMA-CGM, which currently leads container traffic on the Canary Islands-Seville-Madrid axis.

For the past thirty years, the UTE Batán has been operating, composed of three partners: Maritime Terminals of Seville (linked to Mertramar), Termisur Eurocargo (from the Contenemar group), and Miller (one of Boluda's subsidiaries). In 2015, Seville strengthened its leadership position with the Canary Islands and maintained stable figures from the previous year, moving 1,250,313 tons in containers, while road traffic grew by 18%, around 18,500 TEUs.

Photo: Port Authority of Seville