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The great works of the link Road or Pontevedra-Marin Highway built between 1949 and 1958
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In 1958, starting from the back, we can see the Highway, the Placeres peninsula, the landfill for the rail terminus at the Port, the boundary and the early landfill for the future Fishing Port, the Fish Market mooring posts, the shoreline and the shipyard in the foreground.
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Building work for the Fishing Port, carried out in two stages - the first between 1958 and 1963
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The second stage with the Northern jetty closing the basin, between 1964 and 1967
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In the foreground, the installations of the Naval School, with its basin closed off by the old Eastern dock, followed by the Western Commercial dock and the shoreline, with the first landfills in the sixties as far as the shipyards. In the background, building of the Fishing Port with the Northern jetty under construction.
Building of the Fishing Port continued with the laying of fresh water piping and the raised salt water tank in 1965. The rest of the outfitting works on the new jetties date from the early sixties.
To accompany the New Port, the Sales and Packing Hall was built between 1972 and 1974, with a surface area for the Fish Market of 4,288m2 and 4,800 m2 of departments where the fish was gutted and packed.
With regard to cold storage, the first smaller ones - Frío Industrial (180 m2), José Martín Valdés (80 m2) and Antonio Rosales (60 m2)- that remained active until 1974, were later joined by Frigorífico de la Cooperativa del Mar (SAFRICOPE), installed after 1970 and that has undergone continuous expansion to reach the 11,480 m3 it houses today.
The Commercial Sector initiated its expansion in the fifties, with two covered sheds, built and reformed between 1949 and 1959, as well as weighbridges and cranes – two electric gantry cranes of 3 and 6 tons, belonging to Talleres Grasset and two Nelson car cranes of 3 and 6 tons, fitted in 1966, as well as Macosa’s two 6-ton gantry cranes fitted in 1975.
The Commercial Port in full swing, seen from the recreational vessel basin in 1959.
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The Commercial Wharf on its western side was used for mooring warships and idle trampers until 1973. In 1974, it started to be used for trading vessels.
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