A new joint venture formed by Chinese group companies COSCO and the Argentinian PTP Group emerged as the only bidder in the tender for the construction and operation of a multipurpose terminal at the Moll d'Andalusia of the Spanish port of Tarragona. On April 27th, the Port Authority of the airport will open the envelope of the offer submitted containing the technical project, while a third envelope containing the proposal will be open on May 13. Later it will be carried out the overall evaluation of the proposal submitted. The body specified that the tender procedure will last from one to two months to be completed by June, as planned.

The call for tenders provides for the new terminal to occupy an area of at least 226 thousand square meters, which can be expanded up to 452 thousand square meters depending on the project presented. The activity of the terminal will focus on the handling of Containers, Conventional Cargo, Vehicles, Ro-Ro and Project Cargo cargo. The concession will have a minimum duration of 20 years, extendable up to 50, depending on the characteristics of the proposal. The minimum private investment envisaged is 20 million euros and the minimum expected containerized traffic will have to be at least 125 thousand TEUs per year starting from 2031.

The private PTP group mainly operates port, maritime-river and logistics along the waterway Paraná-Paraguay and has a network that offers services from Montevideo, Uruguay, Puerto Murtinho, Brazil, covering over 2,200 kilometres of waterway.