Mancomunidad Vigo

Council: Vigo
Localization: Muelle de Trasatlánticos
The Maritime Station of Vigo is the doorway for tourists that arrive to the city via the sea. The place was during centuries mainly a port of exit for hundreds of thousands of Galicians, towards their emigration to America. The supremacy of air travel as against sea travel gradually took over in the 1960s and the 1970s. There were still cabotage and communication lines operating with the Canary Islands and England during the 1970s. All such lines disappeared after the 1980s, except for merchant vessels that also transported passengers. The last mixed passenger-cargo line in regular service that had a stopover at Vigo, was the line between Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, South Africa and Southampton, which closed at the start of the present century. The number of passengers disembarked today is quite high but all of these arrive on huge vessels, such as the Queen Mary 2, the Queen Elizabeth 2, the Venture, and big passenger ships in general, all of which are holiday and pleasure cruise liners, except the Queen Mary 2, which continues to be a transatlantic liner, that is, it regularly crosses the ocean between Southampton and New York, sometimes making a stopover at Vigo. In fact, Vigo was the first stop on the inaugural voyage of this ship.It is a jetty for cruise liners that have Vigo as stopover point amongst their tourist route stopovers. It has a maritime station, a building with more than 5,000 square metres of area, which shares its maritime use with others of a cultural nature.

Council: Vigo
Localization: From the Praza da Estrela up to Guixar. www.apvigo.com
The commercial port of Vigo occupies a strategic location along the sea highway, that move goods between Africa and Europe, and between these two continents and Asia & America. Port installations continue to expand ever since the first expansion took place towards the end of the 19th century. Some of its premises can be visited, by getting prior authorisation from the Port Authority of Vigo. The commercial port can be construed as one that carries out its activity in the field of transportation of all types of goods (automobiles, containers, bulk carriage, etcetera). Its berthing space extends from Bouzas and between the Praza da Estrela, where the headquarters of the Port Authority of Vigo are, and Guixar.The port of Vigo has facilities and storage areas that are distributed over an area of 462,452 square metres. It has a berth space that is more than 11 km long. The commercial port occupies approximately 45% of this area and a little more of the said berthing space. It moves a traffic of about five million tons/year, mostly in containers. The movement of automobiles at its car terminal in Bouzas surpasses half a million units/year.

Council: Vigo
Localization: In front of Montero Ríos street.
The Vigo Bay Maritime Station is housed in a little port facility occupied by vessels that provide passenger transport service connections between Vigo and Moaña & Cangas, and also with the Cíes Islands during the summer months. You can get a boat for a night trip on the Bay during the summer and also rent boats for groups. Prior to the Rande bridge entering into service, these little boats transported a sizeable number of persons, thereby ranking Vigo as the second port in the peninsula for number of passengers after Algeciras. Between the 1950s and the early years of the 1970s, the interior lines of Vigo Bay brought passengers from the stretch between Cangas and Domaio, in Moaña, on little steam boats with wooden hulls. Despite the supremacy of buses and automobiles, such passenger boat lines are an essential part of the passenger transportation network of the towns around Vigo Bay besides also being an important tourist attraction.It provides passenger transport services to travellers in inland waters of Vigo Bay and of the Atlantic Isles Maritime-Terrestrial National Park.