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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..

Puertos del Estado to support greenhouse gas emissions reduction

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Spain’s national ports agency Puertos del Estado has signed a cooperation contract for the reduction...

Puertos del Estado reports 2018 cargo figures by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

COSCO’s European terminals reports increased TEU traffic in January 2019

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Piraeus Container Terminal SA, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported...

Valencia port approves investments of €28 million

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Board of Directors of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of...

Valencia port records best January container traffic ever

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) closed the first...

Grupo Moldtrans starts a shipping service linking Mexico with Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Moldtrans Group has launched a maritime transport service between Spain and Mexico in collaboration...

Grimaldi joins H2PORTS project

Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 20, 2019 – Grimaldi Group and its sister company Valencia Terminal Europa (VTE) have joined the European project...

Valenciaport Foundation participates in port event in Peru

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 18, 2019 – The Director of Port Development of the Valenciaport Foundation, Arturo Monfort, has attended the port...

Spain reiterates need to impose protectionist towing rules

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – Spain’s Public Works Ministry has informed the European Commission that it considers necessary...

Valencia port handles one of every three containers that move through Spain

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 15, 2019 – A total of 30.12% of the containers that are loaded and unloaded in the 46 state-owned ports in Spain...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – 2018 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports December 2018 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics...

Spain’s state ports see cargo rise by 3.3% in 2018

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Provisional data shows that the 46 state-owned ports handled 563,475,196 tons of cargo in 2018, up 3.3%...

Leixões port aims to compete with Barcelona, Valencia

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Vigo is not the only target of Leixões port’s offensive in container traffic. Until now it was...

Spain’s stowage reform marks most disputed trade union elections in recent years

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Spain’s reform of the stowage sector, which put workers and companies on the warpath due...

Noatum Container Terminal Valencia names CEO

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Noatum Container Terminal Valencia, a company controlled by the Chinese state-owned company COSCO and...

Over 11 million tons of horticultural products passed through Spanish ports in 2018

Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Spain’s 46 state-owned ports handled 560 million tons of cargo in 2018, of which more...

Valenciaport promotes services at Fruit Logistics fair

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Valenciaport has participated in Fruit Logistics in Berlin, the most important fair in the fruit and...

Valenciaport closes the year 2018 with historical figures: 5,182,665 containers and 820,221 vehicles

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 8, 2019 – Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of Valencia) has closed 2018...

Valencia port opens two hours ahead of schedule despite stevedores’ assembly

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 7, 2019 – The paralysis of Valencia port by a gathering of stevedores on February 7 has turned out to be less longer...

Kazak ambassador visits Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) February 5, 2019 – The president of Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia (APV – Valenciaport, Port Authority of...

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