Valencia
Valencia is a Mediterranean Sea port on Spain’s southeastern coast and the country’s leading Mediterranean port in terms of commercial traffic, mostly containerised cargo; the port is managed by Autoridad Portuaria de València (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) which includes the ports of València, Gandia and Sagunto. State ports are managed by Puertos del Estado which executes port policy of the government; made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports..
Adif awards Valencia port contract to COPASA
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 30, 2020 – Adif, the state-owned railway infrastructure manager, has awarded Copasa, a construction and services...
Valenciaport advances €57.2 million to assist port companies
Until today, April 28, Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV) has paid €6.41 million to its suppliers in the ports of Gandia, Sagunto and Valencia, and...
Valenciaport signs contract with Generalitat to allocate 80,000 m2 of Fuente San Luis as provisional container warehouse
The contract between the Valencia Port Authority (APV) and the Generalitat will allow importers and exporters to cut costs and solve the problem of space in...
Ports change rates because they want to support companies – Valenciaport
The president of Valenciaport positively values the measures and the rate reductions as prudent in that they are selective, limited in time, in their...
Valenciaport: Export will be key to recovery from COVID-19 economic crisis
Researcher of the Institute of International Economy (IEI), Vicente Pallardó and the president of Valenciaport and professor of economics, Aurelio Martínez...
Valenciaport considers photovoltaic plant on top of Grimaldi automobile silo
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 22, 2020 – Grupotec has been awarded a contract by Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port...
Valenciaport stands up to the drop in traffic caused by COVID-19 and increases its exports by almost 3%
Total container traffic decreased in March by 9.83% in the month of due to the drop in empty container traffic, which contracted by 26.32%. In import / export...
COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd records near 5% fall in container traffic in March
Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – COSCO SHIPPING Ports Ltd has published container (TEU) throughput for March 2020, which records total...
Puertos del Estado publishes guidelines for pilotage, stevedoring and port community
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 17, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has produced four documents because of the global emergence of COVID-19 to support...
Valenciaport begins distribution of masks among the port staff
Valenciaport has received 85,500 masks from the consignment coordinated by Puertos del Estado for all Spanish port authorities. Valenciaport also plans to...
ESPO calls for Covid-19 exit and recovery strategy for ports
Belgium, Brussels (Ports Europe) April 14, 2020 – The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has called on the European Union (EU) to decide on an...
Puertos del Estado distributes second batch of masks to maritime sector
The shipment of 840,000 units completes the allocation of 1.1 million decreed in Order TMA / 263/2020, of March 20, of MITMA. Port authorities, SASEMAR and the...
Valenciaport pays €3.6 million in two weeks & provides liquidity to supplier companies
For two weeks now, the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has accelerated the accounting and bill payment procedures to shorten the period of payment to...
King of Spain speaks with Valenciaport
The King of Spain, Felipe VI, and his wife Letizia Ortiz, the Queen, have held a video conference to recognize the efforts of the entire port community that...
Valenciaport calls for coordinated action from administrations to simultaneously launch investment plans
Aurelio Martínez demands a coordinated action from all administrations to simultaneously launch all investment plans – April 6, 2020 The President of...
Valenciaport values effort made port community; licenses approved
The delegation to the president of the Valencia Port Authority (APV) of the powers of the Board of Directors has been approved while the State of Alarm remains...
COVID-19 pandemic increases freight rates in the Mediterranean
The COVID-19 pandemic increases freight rates in the Mediterranean with Asian areas and maintains moderate changes with the rest of the world. The idle fleet...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado reports February 2020 cargo figures by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – Puertos del Estado reports February 2020 cargo figures by port authority. The state-owned Puertos del...
Spain: 90 million tons moved in first two months of 2019
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – Puertos del Estado (PdE) has reported that state-managed ports handled 90.172, million tons in the first two...
Valenciaport registers strong increase in import traffic of agri-food products
The daily activity data of the Valencian port facilities reflect the needs of society in the current Alarm State by COVID-19. Valenciaport is strengthened as...