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..
Valencia port to take part in ‘Fruit Attraction’ fair
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to deploy a team of professionals from its...
Valencia port expands trade with the Netherlands
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 16, 2017 – Commercial relations between Valencia port and Dutch ports have increased by more than 50% in the last two...
Valencia port tenders technical assistance for special plan drafting
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the technical assistance for...
Zaragoza-Sagunto rail freight traffic to soar at end-October
Sagunto, Spain (Ports Europe) October 13, 2017 – At the end of October, freight traffic on the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto railway corridor will quintuply on the...
Valencia companies to attract container transhipment from Barcelona
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – The tensions and instabilities that the Catalan independence process caused are not only causing changes...
Valenciaport Foundation to develop master plan for port construction in Peru
Lambayeque, Peru (Ports Europe) October 11, 2017 – The Valenciaport Foundation, in consortium with companies Empresa Multimodal de Colombia and Strategic...
Spanish ports cruise traffic rises 0.5% in Jan-Aug 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2017 – The influx of cruise passengers to Spanish ports in the first eight months of the year remained at...
Puertos del Estado president shares Spanish cruise sector experience in Latin America
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 9, 2017 – The president of Spanish national ports agency Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, has recently given a...
Valencia port needs good links with Bilbao, Cantabrian coast
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) president Aurelio Martínez said that the port...
Hamburg Süd launches regular line connecting Mediterranean, Northern Europe, South America
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – German shipping company Hamburg Süd Group (Hamburg Süd-Gruppe) has presented a weekly service that links...
EU leads the way with ambitious action for cleaner and safer seas
EU leads the way with ambitious action for cleaner and safer seas Malta, 5 October 2017 EU leads the way with ambitious action for cleaner and safer seas At...
Cruise ships change routes to avoid calls in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Demonstrations and riots in Barcelona have had a side effect in Valencia. Two cruise ships, Mein Schiff 3...
Valencia port starts handling PSA cars shipped by train
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 3, 2017 – Today, Valencia port has received the first train loaded with cars from the Figueruelas factory of PSA...
Spanish Chamber of Commerce sets up ports commission
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 2, 2017 – Spanish Chamber of Commerce (La Cámara de Comercio de España) has set up a Ports Commission with the aim...
Opel to relaunch freight line to Valencia port on October 2
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – German carmaker Opel has said it plans to relaunch the operation of a direct rail line for the transport...
Spanish government to introduce environmental sustainability criteria in ports law
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain’s government plans to start working on the amendment of the Ports Law in the country in...
Spain’s Puertos del Estado president says port mergers are not needed
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Spain does not need any mergers of port authorities as the current management structure allows the...
Valencia port books record-high container traffic in August
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2017 – Valencia port recorded the best month of August ever in terms of container traffic. The harbour’s...
Call for tenders to establish a Blue Bioeconomy Forum
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) September 21, 2017 – The Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) has issued a tender to set up...
MedCruise promotes Valencia port as cruise destination
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2107 – MedCruise, the association of Mediterranean cruise ports, has launched a campaign to promote Valencia...