ANFAC values very positively the proactivity of Spanish ports

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) October 7, 2020 - The President of Puertos del Estado, Francisco Toledo, attended the online presentation of the 2019 edition of ANFAC's Logistics Assessment Report together with José López-Tafall, ANFAC's General Manager, and Aránzazu Mur, Director of ANFAC's Economic and Logistics Area. ANFAC is the Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers. The ANFAC Report includes the seven main port authorities (Barcelona, Malaga, Pasajes, Santander, Tarragona, Valencia and Vigo) involved in the import and export of vehicles which, with more than 3 million vehicles, represent almost 90% of the total moved in 2019 by the 28 Spanish Port Authorities. The overall assessment of the ports is satisfactory, obtaining 4.1 out of 5. The pro-activity of the port authorities, 4.2 out of 5, in anticipating and solving problems and maintaining and improving port infrastructures stands out in their evaluations, rising to 4.4 out of 5 when it comes to assigning storage areas, customs procedures and road accessibility. According to Toledo, the outstanding assessment made of the ports by car manufacturers "highlights the importance of maritime transport for the sector, and should be an incentive to continue improving the services we provide". It should be remembered that Spain, with 2.77 million vehicles produced in 2019, is the second largest producer on the European continent, just behind Germany (4.6 million), and ninth in the world. The President of Puertos del Estado stated that "the advances in digitalisation and the improvements in connectivity, especially in railways, that we are undertaking in the ports will allow us to speed up management and handling processes, which will result in greater efficiency and productivity in the sector". It includes loading, unloading, transits and transhipments. By modes of transport, maritime transport is undoubtedly the most demanded, accounting for 45.3%, followed by road with 40.9% and finally rail with 13.7%. And if we talk about multimodal transport, the ship-road combination continues to be the majority option (62.4% in exports, 94.4% in imports), the ship-rail continues to gain space until it represents 37.6% of exports in 2019, and a growth of 2.2% with respect to 2018. Train-ship imports, which represented 5.6%, grew by three tenths. During the first eight months of the year 2020, 1.26 million vehicles were handled in the seven Port Authorities included in the Report, a drop of 34.30% compared to the same period of the previous year. Puertos del Estado is a state-owned organisation responsible for the management of state-owned ports. The company executes the port policy of the government and coordinates and controls the efficiency of the port system, made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports of general interest. Source: Puertos del Estado Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2020.

ANFAC values very positively the proactivity of Spanish ports

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