Under the agreement signed last year with the municipal administration that previews the reduction from seven to five of the number of cruise terminals in the city port(of 17 July 2025), yesterday the board of administration of the Harbour Authority of Barcelona has approved a revision of the concession held from Creuers of the Port de Barcelona, the society integrally held from the group Global Ports Holding (GPH) that manages the terminals cruises A, B and C to the pier Adossat and the Terminal South to the World Trade Center of the Catalan port.

In particular, the revision of the concession is relative to the management of terminals A and B and opens the way to the construction of a new terminal C, after which the current terminals A and B will be demolished. It is expected that the last operation at the current terminal Next Sunday. Subsequently the phases of emptying and demolition of the building will begin, as foreseen by the project presented by Creuers del Port de Barcelona, and the construction of a new structure will be started on the same site. With an area of 11.253 square meters, the new terminal C is designed to meet the needs, current and future, of the crocieristiche operations, being previewed, among others, installations of systems for the production of photovoltaic energy and of Onshore Power Supply plants in order to allow the ships to connect to the electricity network of earth.

The new C terminal will be public, or intended for general use. The planned investment totals EUR 104.5 million, of which more than 50 million specifically intended for the construction of the new terminal building.

The measure approved by the board of directors of the harbour agency entails the extension until 2033 of the concession in chief to Creuers of the Port de Barcelona, whose expiration was originally fixed to 2030 with option of extension. By virtue of this change, the concession for the new C terminal will end in 2050, with possibility of extension until 2053.

Once the new C terminal has been operational, the A and B terminals will be demolished. This operation will precede the renovation of this section of about 660 meters of the Adossat pier which, having been built over 70 years ago, needs a redevelopment intervention.