The Port Authorities of the Balearic Islands and A Coruña exchange experience and knowledge in preparation for their port-city transformation and integration processes

A Coruña

13/02/2026

Port-city
Transport and infrastructure
Socio-economic development

The president of the Balearic Islands Port Authority (APB), together with the general manager, Toni Ginard, visited the port of A Coruña today so that both organisations could exchange experiences and knowledge regarding the processes they have underway in terms of port-city integration.

Both ports are at a key stage to achieve a transformation of port spaces that will result in an improvement of port infrastructure and its relationship with their respective cities.

In both cases, this involves an extensive remodelling of the waterfront, which envisions the creation of new opportunities for port development and the provision of open spaces for citizens. Innovation, sustainability, the enhancement of industrial heritage, and broad social participation throughout the process are aspects that the approaches of the two port authorities have in common.

Both the APB and the A Coruña Port Authority (within the framework of the Coruña Marítime Commission) have put out to tender the drafting of a Master Plan that will define the main lines of the projects to be executed in the coming years, after consultation processes with the public in which strategic agreements were established in consensus with the social and economic stakeholders.

The directors of both ports held a meeting this morning at the headquarters of the A Coruña Port Authority, where they shared the most important aspects of their projects, with the aim of enriching their know-how. Next, they visited the docks and areas of the inner port of A Coruña.

Participating in the visit on behalf of the APB were the president, Javier Sanz; the general manager, Antonio Ginard; the head of the Department of Corporate Governance, Communication and CSR, Laura Molano; and the head of the Department of Planning and Strategy, Jorge Nasarre.

Representing A Coruña at the event were the President of the Port Authority, Martín Fernández Prado; the General Manager, Juan Diego Pérez; the Head of the Port Planning Department, Enrique Maciñeira; and the Head of the Institutional Relations and Communication Division, Ramón Castro.