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..
Valencia port to invest €100 million in improving rail accesses
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – The business plan of Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) envisages the investment...
Valencia speeds process for extending Noatum’s concession
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 21, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has accelerated the procedures to approve the...
Adif tenders railroad ties supply contract for Valencia-Sagunto line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – Spanish state-owned railway operator Adif has tendered a supply and transportation contract to provide the...
COSCO starts operating MAF1 line
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 18, 2017 – COSCO Shipping Lines launched on August 17 its new service MAF1 between the main ports of the Mediterranean...
Valencia port expands area dedicated to car industry
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – Valencia port has reached one million square metres servicing the automobile industry, of which 412,000...
Valencia port completes construction of road to new cruise terminal
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 16, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) has approved the completion of the works of the...
Mediterranean ports handle 64% of Spanish cruise traffic in H1 2017
Barcelona, Spain (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Spanish ports have closed the first half of the year, recording the historic high in cruise traffic, with...
Castellón port considers new railway line
Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) August 11, 2017 – Castellón port is considering the launch of a new railway line to cope with the congestion of the...
Spain: Puertos del Estado – June 2017 cargo traffic by port authority
Madrid, Spain (Ports Europe) July 5, 2017 – Puertos del Estado, the state-run ports system, reports June 2017 cargo traffic (tonnes) statistics by port...
Valencia port passenger traffic rises 23% y/y in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 10, 2017 – Valencia port has received a total of 415,401 passengers during the first half of the year, which is 23.33%...
Valencia port to redesign Sagunto dock
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Valencia port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Valencia) and Sagunto port have agreed today to begin the...
Maersk increases fees for services in Mediterranean, Black Seas
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 9, 2017 – Maersk has announced the increase in the rates it charges for services linking the Indian subcontinent and...
Ford extends concession area at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – US carmaker Ford Motor Company will have 100,000 more square metres in the North Pier of Valencia port after...
Spanish ports can book record-high cargo traffic in 2017 despite strikes of dockers
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The selective stoppages of stevedores have been felt in the traffic of the main Spanish ports although very...
Baleària handles 53,000 passengers on Valencia-Mostaganem line in H1 2017
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The ferry line of Spanish company Baleària Eurolínias Marítimas S.A. between the ports of Valencia and...
Noatum extends Pla-Za railway terminal concession
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (Adif) has extended the...
Valencia port launches car share app for employees
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – People working within the port area of Valencia will have an easier time getting to work thanks to an...