The port of the future

Strategic plan 2021-2025

The main development objective of the Port of Barcelona in the 2021-25 period is economic, social and environmental sustainability.

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mision

Mission, the reason for being

Generate prosperity in the community, increasing the competitiveness of clients through the efficient and sustainable provision of logistics and transportation services.
vision

Vision, the image of the future

Become a SMART logistics centre (Sustainable, Multimodal, Agile, Resilient, Transparent) and consolidate itself as a multidisciplinary space where all means of transport come together.

The Port of Barcelona, in five years

  • It becomes a reference logistics services centre in Europe and the Mediterranean, built on sustainability.
  • It is positioned as a leader in innovation and technology. Generator of prosperity and quality occupation.
  • It is transformed into a multidisciplinary and diversified space focused on the well-being of people, safe and capable of increasing the competitiveness of clients.
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More than a port: a better future

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The SMART concept as a basis for the future

Sustainable development

This vision implies consolidating the Port as a logistics hub characterised by five attributes, which define the SMART concept:

  1. Sustainable, economic, social and environmental level
  2. Multimodal hub for all kinds of means of transport
  3. Agile, flexible and fast
  4. Resilient, with the capacity to overcome the disruptions and adapt to changes
  5. Transparent to clients and society

The long-term vision is applicable to the commercial port, the logistics port, the port exterior and the Port Vell area, with an adaptation, and is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Sustainable Development Goals

Towards the new Strategic Plan

Work is currently underway on the new Strategic Plan for the Port of Barcelona 2026–2030.

The new Plan will outline the strategy for the port’s three main components: commercial, logistics, and Port Vell. The latter, however, already has its own strategic plan, approved by the Board of Directors of the Port Vell company, which will be incorporated into the new Port of Barcelona plan currently under development. 

As was the case with the previous Strategic Plan for the port (2021–2025), the various working groups of the Port of Barcelona’s Governing Council are actively participating in its development through specific meetings convened for this purpose. 

The new Plan is expected to be submitted for approval by the Port of Barcelona’s Board of Directors by the end of this year or early 2026.

Strategic evolution of the port

The strategic planning of the Port of Barcelona began in the mid-nineteen nineties, with the preparation of the Green Book (1997). Since then, 4 more strategic plans have followed with different objectives and short-term projects, adapted to the current scenario at all times. In all plans, the mission or reason for being as a port has remained practically unchanged. But in the last edition, a step forward has been taken and the creation of well-being for the community and sustainability have been placed at the forefront.
History of the strategic plans of the Port of Barcelona
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