The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras will take part from tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11, in Logitrans 2026, the international transport and logistics fair that will run through Friday the 13th in Istanbul (Turkey). The Algeciras port will be represented in its own space within the joint stand of ICEX Spain Export and Investment and Puertos del Estado, which is part of the Spain Pavilion.
This space will be available to representatives of companies belonging to the Algeciras Port Community who travel to Turkey’s economic capital, to facilitate their commercial activities, hold business meetings, and establish contacts with international transport and logistics operators.
This year’s edition will take place at the Dr. Mimar Kadir Topbaş Show and Art Center and will feature representatives from various segments of the logistics chain, including maritime, road, rail, and air transport, logistics brokerage services, infrastructure management, and activities related to multimodal transport.
This year’s participation follows Logitrans 2024, held from November 20 to 22, when APBA shared exhibition space with the companies Lemmas Shipping and Mertramar, also under the organization of ICEX and within the Spain Pavilion. At that edition, the Algeciras delegation presented its maritime connectivity and the logistics services available for trade between the Turkish market and southern Europe.
According to figures released at the time by the Port Authority itself, Turkey ranked third among the Port of Algeciras’s trading partners in containerized import and export traffic in 2024, after recording year-on-year growth of 14%.
At the time, maritime connectivity with this market included eight Turkish ports directly linked to Algeciras by nine services shared by ten shipping lines. These figures were part of the commercial information presented by APBA during its participation in Logitrans 2024.
Trade relations with Turkey had also been the focus of a dedicated business mission the previous year. From September 25 to 28, 2023, the Port of Algeciras conducted a multisectoral mission in Istanbul as part of its international promotion program. The initiative aimed to establish business contacts and explore opportunities to develop import and export traffic with the Turkish market.
APBA included that initiative in its 2023 Management Report, among the commercial activities targeting markets connected to supply-chain proximity processes, known as nearshoring.
The 2026 edition of Logitrans will bring together representatives of maritime, road, and air transport companies, logistics operators, freight forwarders, port authorities, and infrastructure managers linked to trade corridors between Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East.
The fair will take place at the Dr. Mimar Kadir Topbaş Show and Art Center in Istanbul and will once again feature a Spain Pavilion promoted by ICEX, which offers participants commercial support services and access to business contacts tailored to their activities.
The organizations invited to this edition include Spanish port authorities, maritime transport companies, road transport operators, and companies specializing in logistics services.
According to the figures published by the organizers, Logitrans 2025 brought together more than 230 exhibiting companies from 22 countries and welcomed more than 16,000 visitors from 66 countries, with attendance up 14% compared with the previous edition.
The Port of Algeciras’s participation in the event beginning tomorrow is part of its international commercial promotion program. It will showcase the services offered by its facilities and give companies in its port community the opportunity to use the Spanish exhibition space to hold business meetings with representatives of the Turkish market and other operators attending the fair.
