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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..

Cosco representatives visit Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Representatives of Cosco Shipping Ports visited Valencia port and the facilities of Noatum Container Terminal...

Spanish interport fund to pay €37.55 million to 28 port authorities

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) July 31, 2017 – Spanish interport compensation fund (Fondo de Compensación Interportuaria) will provide a funding worth...

China investment in Mediterranean ports

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) July 28, 2017 – The Italian financial daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore has published an article looking at Chinese state...

Valencia port generates 36,978 jobs

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July26, 2017 – The economic impact of Valenciaport reached €2,352 million ($2,736 million) in 2015. This figure is...

City of Dénia in Spain create a city-port committee with local government

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 25, 2017 – The Spanish port of Dénia and the regional government will set up a joint city-port committee to develop...

Spain’s Nunsys to manage Valencia port authority’s IT safety network

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Spanish software company Nunsys has been awarded the tender of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...

Valencia port to adapt container terminals to large vessels

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt its three container terminals so that...

APM Terminals starts transfer of Malaccamax cranes to Levante dock

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 18, 2017 – Spanish company APM Terminals Valencia began on July 15 the transfer of its Malaccamax cranes to the dock of...

Noatum to strengthen infrastructure at Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) July 18, 2017 – Noatum is committed to strengthening its infrastructure in Valencia, in order to increase the operational...

Interglobo opens office in Valencia

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) July 16, 2017 – Genoa-based Interglobo International Freight Forwarders has decided to set foot in the Spanish market by...

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...

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