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..
Spanish trade union CETM accuses watchdog of destabilising port stowage sector
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – The recent opening of two investigations into the main actors in the stowage sector by the...
Spanish ports cargo traffic rises 6.3% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – The total cargo traffic at Spanish ports rose by 6.3% on the year in the first nine months of 2017 to...
Valencia port to expand docks in its northern area
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martínez has announced an...
Valencia port to install OCR system for management of railway container traffic
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 8, 2017 – Valencia port has developed over the last decade a large number of projects in the railway sector with...
Valencia port to invest €5.2 million to increase draft of container dock
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans invest €5.2 million ($6 million) to...
Valencia port president says he does not understand reasons for northern access rejection
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 7, 2017 – The president of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), Aurelio Martinez, has...
Panamanian government to study cargo inspection work at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Valencia port received this week a visit of a Panamanian governmental delegation, led by the Minister...
Puertos del Estado expects port cargo traffic to rise to 530 million tonnes in 2017
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has said he expects...
Spanish competition watchdog launches probe into docking companies, trade unions
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Spanish competition regulator Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) has launched...
Neptune Lines returns to Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Piraeus-based Neptune Lines had restarted the use of Valencia port with the Neptune Odyssey callig at...
Castellón port eyes regular train service to Zaragoza
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Castellón port expects to have “three or four” weekly connections by train with Zaragoza by...
Cosco appoints new Noatum management team
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Following the acquisition of Noatum Ports by China’s Cosco Shipping Ports, the Chinese company has...
Iraqi government officials visit Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 30, 2017 – Valencia port meets the conditions and potentials sought by private companies and the government of Iraq...
Spain’s Adif says funding for Zaragoza-Valencia railway project guaranteed
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2017 – The president of Spanish state-run railway infrastructure company Administrador de Infraestructuras...
Valencia port companies reinvested €4 million of received bonuses
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 27, 2017 – Companies in the port community of Valencia have reinvested €4 million ($4.6 million) of the €6 million...
Valencia port to host corporate responsibility event on October 24
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 24, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) will host the inaugural event of the Corporate...
Valencia port participates in ECG Conference
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) attends today and tomorrow the ECG Conference, an...
Valencia port keeps positive cargo traffic trend in Jan-Sep 2017
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2017 – Valencia port has maintained the growth trend in the first nine months of 2017, recovering after the labour...
Raminatrans starts warehousing projects in four Spanish ports
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – Spanish company Raminatrans S.L. is carrying out an ambitious project that includes the construction of...
Valencia port’s passenger traffic reaches “historical record” in September
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 18, 2017 – Valencia port’s passenger traffic reached “an historical record” in year-on-year terms in...