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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..

Valencia port tenders contract for aid to passengers travelling to Algeria

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the service contract of...

Spain fined €3 million by European Court of Justice over stevedore sector

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – The European Union’s Court of Justice has ordered Spain to pay a punitive fine of €3 million ($3.4...

Adif sets up commission to monitor Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – In Madrid yesterday, the president of Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras...

Valencia port shares management experience in Ghana

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 13, 2017 – Francesca Antonelli, Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) head of marketing, recently...

Bergé, ArcelorMittal request €67.8 million compensation from Valencia port 

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Spanish automotive company Bergé and Luxembourg-based steel giant ArcelorMittal are requesting a €67.8...

Spanish ship consignment firms to set up association of companies outside ANESCO

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Spanish ship consignment sector has begun to work intensively in a short space of time to create a new...

Spanish docking strike had mixed implications – government offical

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The stowage strike carried out during three weeks last June was more harmful for some ports than for...

Puertos del Estado hopes for lowest possible fine for Spain

Bilbao, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – Spanish national port agency Puertos del Estado’s president José Llorca has said that he hopes that the...

Noatum sends two cranes to Málaga port from Valencia 

Málaga, Spain (PortSEurope) July 7, 2017 – The Bigroll Bering vessel, owned by company Bigroll Shipping, which specialises in the loading and transport...

Valencia port calls tender for construction of access to container terminal

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered the construction of the new access to...

Valencia port develops smartphone app for terrestrial transport users

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has developed an application for mobile devices that...

Spain to build Valencia-Castellón line of Mediterranean Corridor with standard gauge track

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna has said the government plans to build the stretch of the...

Spanish government to ensure dockworkers sector agreement is legal

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Spanish Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, has said that the government will ensure that the...

Spain: Puertos del Estado – May 2017 cargo traffic by port authority

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) July 5, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports May 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...

Valencia port reduces vessel operation fees

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has reduced the fees for vessels operated at the...

Social Dialogue Committee for Ports meeting does not take place

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 2, 2017 – Last March 1, 2017, the Social Dialogue for Ports meeting in Brussels was interrupted after IDC and ETF...

EC approves launch of Ocean Network Express alliance

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the launch of the Ocean Network Express alliance...

APM Terminals restarts operation of terminals in Barcelona, Algeciras

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) June 30, 2017 – APM Terminals has restarted operations at its terminals in Barcelona and Algeciras after closing them for two...

Spain’s Orbita Ports takes part as exhibitor in TOC Europe

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – Valencia-based company Orbita Ports & Terminals is participating as an exhibitor in the new edition of TOC...

APM Terminals Valencia managers visit TOC Europe conference

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 29, 2017 – A delegation of APM Terminals Valencia, made up of half a dozen professionals, is attending a new edition of...

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