Breakwater development in Spain. The last ten years

摘要

The aim of this paper is to provide a general and mainly descriptive overview of the major port breakwater development that have taken place in Spain in the last 10 years or that are still being carried out, especially in the design and construction fields.It must be mentioned that, along the Spanish economic growth and with the impact of globalisation, handling of goods in Spanish Ports increased by 57 % in the period 1997-2007, against an average percentage for the 15 countries of 26 %, according to EUROSTAT, and this explain in part the need for extended the Spanish port infrastructures.