The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) will have a double representation at the MEDPorts Forum 2026, the annual event of the Mediterranean ports association MEDPorts, which will take place on May 20 and 21 in Marseille (France) with the Port of Marseille Fos as the host. The meeting, organized under the theme "Mediterranean Ports 2026: Resilient Logistics and Green Corridors", will bring together port authorities, logistics experts, and institutional leaders to discuss decarbonization, supply chain stability, and connectivity in the Mediterranean basin. The event follows the edition held in May 2025 in Tangier Med (Morocco), where the challenges of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and the impact of geopolitical conflicts on maritime routes were addressed.
The president of the APBA, Gerardo Landaluce, will attend the forum in his dual capacity as the chief responsible for the Port of Algeciras and as vice president of the MEDPorts Association, which gives the participation of the Algeciras port a high-level institutional profile within the program. For his part, Luis Núñez, head of Strategy and European Affairs at the APBA, will speak in the session dedicated to resilient, ecological, and digital maritime corridors (Resilient, Green & Digital Maritime Corridors), one of the central panels of this edition.
Among the topics that the forum will address are clean maritime fuels and their impact on ports in terms of preparedness, safety, operations, and competitiveness, as well as connectivity with the interior and long-term port resilience. These issues are particularly relevant for the Port of Algeciras, which actively participates in European initiatives such as the Green and Digital Corridor with the Panama Canal and the digital interoperability project with Central America, both integrated into the EU's global connectivity strategy through the Global Gateway program.
The participation of the APBA in Marseille occurs just a month after Landaluce represented MEDPorts at the hearings held in the European Parliament on the implementation of the Pact for the Mediterranean, the strategic initiative of the European Commission aimed at deepening cooperation with southern Mediterranean partners. In that intervention, the president of the APBA claimed that European policies should help develop a joint competitiveness environment for the entire Mediterranean, without generating traffic deviations between ports.
The MEDPorts Association was created in June 2018 and currently groups more than 30 port authorities and four port training centers from all shores of the Mediterranean, representing approximately 70% of cargo traffic and 90% of passenger traffic in the region. The association works to promote cooperation, innovation, and sustainable development in the Mediterranean basin through four technical committees: Sustainable Business Development, Training, Employment and Cooperation, Promotion, and Gender Equality. Its members include ports from Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Malta, Lebanon, Egypt, and Mauritania, among other countries.