Port of Cartagena
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The port of Cartagena (
It historical importance relies on both the good harbour offered by the natural bay and its strategic location near the East–West maritime route linking the Suez Canal to the strait of Gibraltar.[6] It was used by the Punic civilization, and then by Romans. Besides its location, it also was appreciated at the time because of the metal ore mining (argentifourous galenas) in the surrounding mountains as well as the esparto exports.[7]
In 2006, the Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena proposed the expansion of the port with a new dock in El Gorguel. The estimated cost exceeded 1500 million of euros.[8] The Port of Cartagena has two independent docks (Cartagena and Escombreras), separated from each other by a distance of 5 km by road and 1.5 miles by sea.[9]
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Puerto de Cartagena, by Mariano Ramón Sánchez (1793)
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New outer dock of Escombreras
References
- Citations
- ^ "UNLOCODE (ES) - SPAIN". service.unece.org. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ Gobierno de España. January 2019. p. 29. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- Gobierno de España. September 2015. Archived from the originalon 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- Gobierno de España. 3 March 2015. Archived from the originalon 15 June 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Noticias". CARM.es (in Spanish). 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ Morales Gil 2004, pp. 107–108.
- ^ Morales Gil 2004, pp. 110.
- ^ "Informe técnico sobre el impacto de la instalación de una dársena de contenedores en El Gorguel" (PDF). Fundación Sierra Minera (in Spanish): 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- Gobierno de España. 2010. p. 54. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- Bibliography
- Morales Gil, Alfredo (2004). "Trascendencia territorial del puerto de Cartagena". Investigaciones Geográficas (33). San Vicente del Raspeig: ISSN 1989-9890.