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València

València 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..

Noatum Port Holdings – December 2017 container terminal statistics

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 15, 2018 – Noatum Port Holdings, operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited, has reported December 2017...

Spain’s Hermes Logística gets IFS certificate for warehouses in Las Palmas, Valencia

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Hermes Logística, S.A., a subsidiary of Trasmediterránea S.A., has received the IFS Logística...

Valencia port handles 190,000 tonnes of cargo with Cuba

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Valencia port handled nearly 190,000 tonnes of cargo with the Cuban ports of Havana, Mariel and Santiago in...

Valencia port closes 2017 with €393 million debt

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 9, 2018 – Valencia port closed 2017 with a debt with long-term credit institutions of €393 million ($468.8 million),...

Valencia port lags behind Barcelona in terms of logistics space

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – While the president of the Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia), Aurelio Martínez,...

Valencia port expects 197 cruise calls in 2018

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – Valencia port has already scheduled 197 cruise calls for 2018, a figure that falls slightly below the 203...

Puertos del Estado chairs meeting of the Plenary Session of the Permanent Observatory of the Port Services Market

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) January 5, 2018 – On December 1, 2017, the president of Puertos del Estado, José Llorca, chaired the eleventh meeting of...

Valencia port starts 2018 with new pilotage service fees

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 4, 2018 – Valencia port has started the year with new maximum fees for the pilotage service. The new tariffs represent...

Spanish ports handle 8.5 million cruise passengers in Jan-Nov 2018

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Spanish ports handled a total of 8.5 million passengers in the first eleven months of 2017, up 4.31% on the...

Valencia port starts railway import service for new cars

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) January 2, 2018 – Valencia port started a railway import service of vehicles in December, when two convoys left the harbour to...

Valencia port to invest €6 million in container terminal accesses upgrade

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 29, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) plans to invest €6 million ($7.2 million) to...

Valencia port calls tender for waste processing plant construction

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 21, 2017 – Spanish state gazette Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE) has published an announcement by Valencia port...

Rail Transport Service of ValenciaportPCS implementation starts

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2017 – The implementation of the Rail Transport Service of ValenciaportPCS is complete in the import process...

Valencia port rejects application filed by Cemex

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 19, 2017 – Valencia port authority’s board of directors has rejected the application of Cemex España...

Valencia port targets 5 million TEUs in 2018

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Valencia port authority aims to boost its container traffic to 5 million TEUs in 2018, keeping up the...

Spain, Ecuador to cooperate in transport infrastructure development

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Spanish Public Works Minister Íñigo de la Serna met with his Ecuadorian counterpart Paul Granda to...

Dominican Republic officials visit Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 15, 2017 – A delegation from the embassy of the Dominican Republic in Spain visited the port of Valencia on December...

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