Algeciras and Gibraltar
The Bay of Algeciras, in the south of Spain’s autonomous region of Andalusia, hosts two important port cities: Algeciras and the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The Bay has been a hub connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea for the past 300 years.
Algeciras is one of the largest ports in Europe and in the world in three categories: container traffic, cargo and transhipment.
Both ports have been affected by the COVIDー19 crisis: in this image acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 7 July, several moored (red) tankers are visible in the bay and east of Gibraltar, probably as a consequence of the economic slowdown.
Data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites allow many applications in the marine domain such as monitoring water quality and pollution, or maritime surveillance.
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