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The
Port
of
Algeciras
is
the
port
and
harbour
of
Algeciras,
a
city
located
in
the
province
of
Cádiz
in
the
autonomous
community
of
Andalusia,
Spain.
It
is
a
commercial,
fishing
and
passenger
port.
Primarily
a
transshipment
port,
its
position
near
the
Strait
of
Gibraltar
and
key
east–west
shipping
routes
establishes
it
as
one
of
the
busiest
transshipment
hubs
in
the
world.[citation
needed]
It
competes
with
Tanger-Med
for
the
local
transshipment
market.
It
consists
of
numerous
maritime
infrastructures
scattered
throughout
the
Bay
of
Gibraltar.
Although
only
the
town
of
Algeciras
and
La
Línea
de
la
Concepción
overlook
the
bay,
there
are
port
facilities
in
the
rest
of
the
bank,
also
belonging
to
the
municipalities
of
San
Roque
and
Los
Barrios.
It
is
managed
along
the
port
of
Tarifa
by
the
Port
Authority
of
Algeciras
Bay.
Unlike
other
major
European
ports,
the
present
port
is
rather
young.
In
ancient
times
the
maritime
shipping
focused
on
Carteia,
which
was
abandoned
in
the
Middle
Ages.
During
the
Muslim
presence
in
the
Iberian
Peninsula,
Algeciras
became
the
crossing
point
for
crossing
the
Strait
of
Gibraltar.
In
the
Reconquista
the
border
area
became
the
Moorish
Kingdom
of
Granada,
which
caused
it
to
be
destroyed
and
abandoned
in
1379.
The
population
became
concentrated
in
Gibraltar.
With
the
conquest
of
Gibraltar
in
1704,
the
population
fled
and
was
distributed
mainly
along
the
bay.
Several
settlements
were
established,
of
which
the
only
one
on
the
banks
of
the
sea
was
the
repopulation
of
Algeciras.
In
the
new
distribution
of
the
bay
a
port
facility
was
not
created
until
1894,
when
a
wooden
jetty
was
created
at
the
mouth
of
the
Río
de
la
Miel.
《《Algeciras
aus
1800
m
Höhe-Mittelmeerflug
1928-LBS》》
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