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New Port of
Laredo,
built by
FCC,
receives
the José de Azas Award
The new marina and fishing port facilities
at Laredo, built by FCC, have received the
great distinction of winning the José de
Azas Award, given by the Cantabrian Divi-
sion of the Spanish Professional Associa-
tion of Civil Engineers. The judges, whose
decision was unanimous, declared that the
project is the most brilliant piece of engi-
neering done since 2009.
The association’s president, Enrique Conde
Tolosa, stressed that the project is “mag-
nificent in its design, exemplary in its exe-
cution,” and moreover “the first of its type,
in port engineering, to receive the José de
Azas.”
The award-winners in this edition who were
mainly responsible for this project were
Antonio Bocanegra Diego, project mana-
ger, Jose María Berenguer Pérez, the de-
Recognised as
a brilliant engineering
work since 2009
signer of the project; the Marina de Laredo
ASCAN-FCC joint venture, which built the
marina and runs the concession; and Puer-
tos de Cantabria, the harbour agency of the
Department of Public Works and Housing
of the Government of Cantabria, as the
project’s developer.
Port of Laredo
The new port of Laredo stands next to the
old port and the old city centre, sheltered to
the north by a curved groyne a bit over 700
metres long, which provides a defence from
the waves for both the marina basin and the
fishing port basin. The new port was ope-
ned in 2011.
The port has been designed to satisfy sport
boating’s demands and fishing needs. It
has a fishing basin, a marina basin with
jetties and the old port’s marina berths. It
can moor 857 boats on 12 docks prepared
to accommodate crafts 6, 8, 10, 12, 15,
18 and 20 metres in length. It has latest-
generation services, like a Travelift system
for 50-ton craft, and a car park for 420 ve-
hicles.