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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 receives visit of Mexico’s Oaxaca region representatives

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – Valencia port has received a visit of the representative of the Mexican region of Oaxaca to the Federal...

Valencia port reduces sale price of yacht purchased for America’s Cup

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has reduced the sale price of the yacht it...

Consorcio de la Marina presents plan to reconstruct Valencia marina

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 –  Spanish company Consorcio de la Marina has presented a plan for the reconstruction of the marina at...

Malta National Statistics Office reports record cruise year in 2016

Valletta, Malta (Ports Europe) January 21, 2017 – According to figures published by the National Statistics Office in Malta, 2016 was a record year for...

Valencia port to invest €23 million in dredging seabed at container terminals

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has envisaged a funding of €23 million...

Valencia port acquires three land plots at logistics zone ZAL

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has signed the agreement for the purchase of...

Balearia, Renfe sign deal to sell tickets jointly

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – The president of shipping company Balearia, Adolfo Utor, and the chairman of Spanish state-run railway...

Valencia port workers participate in Rotterdam training project

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2017 – A course for the managers of terminals Noatum, Intersagunto and APM Terminals is being held this week...

SPC-Spain names vice president

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Spanish shortsea shipping association SPC-Spain (Asociación Española para la Promoción del...

Marmedsa Noatum Maritime joins anti-corruption association MACN

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Spanish port services company Marmedsa Noatum Maritime has been accepted as a member of the Maritime...

Spanish government close to completing stowage sector reform

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – The Spanish central government is working on a consensus text to implement the reform of the...

Temagra improves operations at Valencia port bulk terminal

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Terminal Marítima de Graneles, S.L. (Temagra), the operator of the bulk terminal of Valencia port, has...

Spanish ports service around 8.7 million cruise passengers in 2016

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna has announced that Spanish ports closed 2016 with about...

Valencia port authority awards €143,538 contract for urbanisation of land plot

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 12, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has awarded a €143,538 ($152,996) contract to...

MacAndrews updates “Valencia Express” service

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – UK shipping company MacAndrews has announced the update of its service “Valencia Express”,...

Valencia port authority to adapt land plot for solid bulk storage purposes

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to adapt a plot of 20,730 square meters,...

Spanish government presents investment plan for ports

Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Inigo de la Serna presented an investment plan of €1.418 billion ($1.5...

Valencia tenders for container terminal project study

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has tendered for €605,000 ($634,385) the...

Valencia port authority to make €56 million investments in 2017

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 4, 2017 – The Business Plan approved at the latest board meeting of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de...

Valencia is most used port for Spanish exports, imports

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) January 2, 2017 – Valencia port handled over 70 million tonnes of goods with countries on five continents in 2016. Therefore,...

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