Bouzas Port Area

This is a specialised terminal in RO-RO general cargo traffics;  i.e., with operation through rolling means.  It has five fixed ramps and  one mobile ramp for vessel berthing, and an adjoining open air storage area of some 400,000 m². These ramps range from 150m length and 8m depth to 369m and 14m depth. Therefore, they are perfectly capable of hosting any of today´s large carriers.

Annexed to these ramps there is a huge area of 400,000 m² for cargo storage.  The main activity in this terminal relates to new vehicles, 75% of them for export purposes and the remaining 25% for import.

The Vigo Free Trade Zone Consortium premises are also located in this area as offices and storage sites available for those sectors operating under free trade zone regime.

The terminal has direct connections trough road motorways.

In terms of relevant infrastructures, the SILO for vertical storage of vehicles increased the capacity of Bouzas terminal in 60,000 m2, allowing a total 4,000 vehicles to be stored in its three heights (expandable to four) without the need to carry out further extensions by land reclamation.

The particular design of this infrastructure, especially light because of the use of steel beams and tramex slabs, has allowed for much wider spaces and separations for vehicles, far superior to those of other similar structures in other ports, what results in higher safety and quality standards, very important in the handling of this valuable cargo.

In addition to its modern systems for supplying, lighting, fire detection and extinguishing, the installation of photovoltaic panels integrated in blue translucent glass, provides an installed power of 100kW to generate electricity to sell back to the grid, while being aesthetically integrated in the whole of the façade.