EDDEA to plan and design the major urban transformation of Seville’s new Port District

EDDEA has been awarded, for €438,565 and an estimated term of three years, the contract for the Technical Office for the design of Seville’s new Port Urban District (Distrito Urbano Portuario), the major urban transformation of the Avenida de Las Razas and the Muelle de Tablada, on the left bank of the Guadalquivir, with new spaces for the enjoyment of the public.

Promoted by the Port Authority of Seville (APS) under its 2025 Strategic Plan, the initiative aims to transform these spaces and adapt the Muelle de Tablada for cruise traffic, while bringing productive, cultural and commercial activities into the port’s warehouses and sheds to make them a new draw for the city.

The work awarded to EDDEA is divided into four phases: the first devoted to analysis and study of the framework; the second to the masterplan that will design the district; the third to drafting the required urban planning documents and steering them through approval; and the fourth to supporting the implementation of the work.

The intervention area covers the left bank of the Alfonso XIII dock, from the Puente de las Delicias to the Puente del Centenario. For the Port of Seville, transforming the port area closest to the centre rests on a new relationship that encourages port and city to live side by side and ensures that port activity is integrated into its urban surroundings.

Reconnecting the city

Covering 57 hectares, the scheme will take an approach that preserves the identity of the area, reconnects it with the city and makes it liveable. To that end, the Technical Office led by the EDDEA team will design a masterplan, define the management model for the area and promote the enhancement of its industrial heritage.

“This is one of the port’s most important projects for the coming years. Through it we will help shape the future urban structure and transform the quays closest to the city by creating new spaces for everyone to enjoy,” said APS president Rafael Carmona. “We are working so that the city embraces its port and looks out over the dock,” he added.

“We want to take a participatory approach to designing the district, involving from the very start the administrations, associations and economic and social stakeholders committed to the smooth running of the port,” Carmona said.

The port–city developments will involve moving cargo-handling activity (cereals, steel products, scrap, fertilisers…) to the Cuarto dock (dársena del Cuarto), with the construction of a new multi-purpose terminal with multimodal connections.

The technical evaluation committee for this negotiated procedure with publicity was made up of representatives of the Junta de Andalucía, through the General Secretariat for Infrastructure, Mobility and Spatial Planning; Seville City Council, through its Urban Planning Department (Gerencia de Urbanismo); Puertos del Estado; and RETE, an association with extensive expertise in port–city integration.