The leading Spanish port in the Mediterranean
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Who are we? Valenciaport is the leading Spanish port in the Mediterranean for commercial traffic, mainly containerized goods. This is due to:
● Its privileged location: as it is the closest commercial port to the Suez-Gibraltar axis (route of the main inter-oceanic lines) and has great facility for the concentration and distribution of traffic in the Western Mediterranean.
In addition, the geographical position reduces time in land transport and increases the possibility for redistribution of goods from and to the Peninsula.
● Its area of influence: it is among the most dynamic geographical areas in Europe and at a short distance between the countries of Southern Europe and North Africa
● Its network of inter-oceanic and regional connections: with more than 100 regular lines, including the main international shipping companies, and multiple regional connections that provide a great capillarity to the transport of goods through Valenciaport.
In this way, they are established as the best and most efficient option at the service of Southern Europe's maritime trade, with connections to more than 1,000 ports around the world.
● Your quality of service guaranteed
The Port Authority of Valencia (APV), under the commercial name of Valenciaport, is the public body responsible for the management of three ports located along the Spanish Mediterranean coast: Valencia, Sagunto and Gandía.
Valenciaport is characterized by a cohesive Port Community, through innovative elements such as the valenciaportpcs.net technological platform and formed by all the public and private agents that provide their services through the ports of Valencia, Sagunto and Gandía.
Valenciaport is not only a key element in the exterior projection of the Valencian Community, but also the maritime door of production and consumption of the whole Iberian Peninsula.
How does the strategic plan work?
The Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has a Strategic Plan with which it plans to meet the new challenges posed by the current economic scenario.
The APV has achieved in advance the objectives it had set out in its 2015 Strategic Plan, exceeding 4.2 million TEU in 2010 when this Plan foresaw 4 million in 2015.
Having said this, Valenciaport's mission is to sustainably promote the external competitiveness of the business fabric of its area of influence through a competitive offer in quality and price of port, maritime, intermodal and logistics infrastructures and services in line with European transport policies.
● Optimizing revenues, costs and investments to ensure the short and long term self-financing of the VCT.
● Coordinating for the adequate remuneration and coexistence of the different agents of the Port Community.
● Minimizing negative impacts on water, air and noise quality.
● Promoting rail intermodality and short sea shipping.
On the other hand, we find the proposed focus of specialization for the APV ports in the 2020 horizon
Valencia (inter-oceanic and urban port) proposes:
● Combination of Import/Export (I/E) containers and inter-oceanic transit containers
● Cruises and Ferries
● Nautica de recreo
Sagunto (industrial port) proposes:
● Specialization in traffic: steel industry, automobile and special transport
● Short distance container
● Bulk
● Nautical of recreation
Gandia (local port) proposes:
● General non-containerized goods: paper and wood
● Recreational boating
Finally we have the strategy and positioning.
The strategy consists of exploiting the capacities of Valenciaport as a mixed hub, optimizing the costs of scale and the mixed volume of local import-export.
On the other hand, the positioning is divided into
● Services: reinforcement of the regulation and coordination role for the improvement of the efficiency of the passage of the load and greater logistic and intermodal integration.
● Traffic: focus on the combination of I/E containers - transit and collection
selective of other traffics, especially cruises.
● Hinterland: consolidation in the Iberian Peninsula and progressive development of MENAand Southern Europe countries.
● Foreland: consolidation in Asia and the Atlantic and progressive development of MENA countries, West Africa and Southern Europe
Logistics
The ports have become points of concentration of traffic. This has made the Port Authorities position themselves as key points in the transport chains, ensuring a flow of goods as quickly and efficiently as possible by promoting intermodal transport systems
In addition, it also promotes the development of logistics activity zones (ZAL) in its ports to increase their competitiveness.
In the areas of logistic activities they are in charge of the handling and distribution of the maritime merchandise. In this way, the Port Authority of Valencia, through VALENCIA PLATAFORMA INTERMODAL Y LOGISTICA, S.A. (VPI Logística), promotes,
executes and explodes:
ZAL Port of Valencia: It comprises an area of 68 hectares, dedicated to the logistics of maritime goods.
ZAL Puerto de Sagunto: It has an area of 279,380 m2, available for lease of land and ships.
Ports and commercials
The provision activities that are necessary for the operation of the ports aimed at making possible the realization of the operations associated with the maritime traffic, in conditions of safety, efficiency, regularity, continuity and non discrimination, and that are developed in the territorial scope of the Port Authorities are assigned the name of port services.
The following are considered port services:
a) Technical-nautical services:
Pilotage service.
Port towing service.
Mooring and unmooring service.
b) Service to the ticket, which includes:
the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers
the loading and unloading of luggage
the loading and unloading of vehicles in passenger mode
c) Service of reception of waste generated by ships that includes:
reception of waste and residues
d) Merchandise handling service:
the loading, stowage, unloading, unstowage, sea transit and transshipment of goods.
We can help you:
The Port Authorities have been assigned two functions in relation to the Aids to Navigation:
● The installation and maintenance of: signaling, beaconing and other navigational aids that serve as an approach and access of the ship to the port or ports they manage
● Inspect the operation of maritime signals
The inspection function of maritime signals is one of the most important ways of ensuring the effectiveness of maritime navigation aids established to facilitate maritime traffic and therefore safety at sea.
In order to carry out this work, the Port Authority of Valencia (APV), in accordance with the recommendations of the State Ports Public Body (OPPE), has drawn up this Inspection Plan.
Our Quality Mark
The Valenciaport Guarantee Mark refers to quality management in the Port Community, where the different groups that make it up (Port Authority, Forwarders, Consignees, Stevedores, Carriers, Official Services, etc.) form part of the same process, which provides a specific service to the end customer. The client has, therefore, a unique perception of the quality of the service provided as an indicator of the efficiency of the port as a whole.
This Guarantee Mark is an innovative quality seal that is registered and recognised internationally and is one of the pillars on which the commitment to quality is based. Both Valenciaport and the companies in its Port Community maintain this commitment to their clients, who have an effective instrument for guaranteeing the quality of their commercial transactions.
The guarantees offered to customers using the ports of Valencia and Sagunto are determined by the Quality Councils, in which all the groups and public bodies operating in each port are represented.
These Councils approve the constitution of working groups that actively improve the operations of each type of traffic and define the guarantees.
In which ports do we act?
The port of Valencia
It channels the traffic of practically any type of merchandise from all sectors of the economy. Its main clients include the following sectors: furniture and wood, textiles, footwear, livestock and food (cereals and feed, wines and beverages, canned food, fruits, etc.), energy (diesel, gasoline, coal, etc.), chemical, automobile (Ford, Fiat, Land Rover, Jaguar, etc.), construction (cement and clinker, tiles, marble, etc.), machinery, etc.
It also welcomes regular passenger traffic with the Balearic Islands and Italy and has, in recent years, one of the most continuous and solid growth in Mediterranean cruise traffic.
The port of Sagunto
Although the Port of Sagunto has traditionally been specialized in the traffic of steel products, this port area is today characterized by its versatility and has been opened to new traffic such as natural gas, vehicles, containers and solid bulk.
It has established itself as the main steel cluster nationwide.
The port of Gandía
It serves a conventional general cargo traffic, with a high degree of specialization in the handling of goods such as: reels and paper pulp, imported wood and agricultural products from the area.
Goods we work with
We
sell merchandise such as bulk products, general cargo, catches and fish
supplies. These graphs refer to the amount distributed between 2018 and
2019 and their differences.
This graph refers to the amount of loading and unloading distributed by TEU containers in 2018 and 2019:
Freight traffic statistics
This image represents the annual freight traffic statistics in the Mediterranean, differentiating each container and its merchandise. You could get more information that may interest you, in this document about the last month of 2020.
Why choose our company and no other?
We work with a wide variety of vessels, the best in the entire Mediterranean port area.
Boats
Tanks
Tankers are a wide family of ships specifically designed to transport liquids, such as crude oil, liquefied gases or, in the case of CLH, petroleum products. This type of vessel has different characteristics than a normal vessel.
The structure is more resistant than other boats. The case of the cargo tanks, they are watertight to petroleum products and, above all, to the gases produced by them, because if they come into contact with air they produce an explosive mixture. The settling tanks (slops) are destined to retain the residues of the mixtures generated by the washing of the tanks with crude oil. The oil loading and unloading pumps, each cargo tank has its own pump, driven by a hydraulic motor with drive equipment on the deck. The pumps have their own discharge line.
The ventilation systems allow to expel the oil vapors that are produced in the chambers and in the watertight compartments. Diesel engines, they are in charge of propelling the ship, instead of the old steam turbines. Tankers also incorporate an exhaust gas boiler and one or two boilers to feed auxiliary services and heating.
Bulk carriers
Ship dedicated to the transport of dry bulk cargo. It is usually a large merchant ship (up to 200,000 deadweight tonnage), in some cases exceeding 300 m in length, which normally travels at low speed.
These solid bulk cargo transport vessels are easily identifiable by having a single continuous deck with several hatches (usually odd) and slides on one or both sides where the hatch cover or covers run.
The panamax type bulk carriers, like the rest of the families of this type of vessel, have the maximum size allowed to pass through the Panama Canal, with a series of draft and beam limitations, which is equivalent to 60-70,000 tons of weight. dead.
They can transport cereals, minerals or mixed loads (dry and crude loads). In the case of the transport of heavy loads, their holds are reinforced to resist blows.
Cement and aluminum producers are a special type of bulk carrier, as they are highly specialized. They are usually small (6000 TPM) and have their own means of loading and unloading through pipes by pneumatic means.
General Cargo
The general cargo ship is practically falling into disuse; It is used in some regions of Africa and developing countries, where port stations have been frozen in time, and have not been able to be updated to the new era of container ships.
The general cargo ship has adapted with its holds to forest products, iron and steel products or massive loads that makes the use of containers uneconomical.
Cargo of all kinds is transported, generally palletized, they can also carry containers on deck.
At present, the holds of general cargo ships tend to be built in a prismatic way to facilitate loading, unloading and stowage operations, eliminating the spaces outside the hatch opening that delay the packing and lashing operation.
RoRo
All type of ship, or boat, that transports wheeled cargo, both cars and trucks. In addition, it carries passengers it is described by the technical name or acronym of RO-PAX, although, colloquially, ro-ro passenger ships are known as ferries.
Ro-Ros often have ramps built into the ship or fixed on land that allow cargo to be unloaded (roll off) and loaded (roll on) from the port.
Ships that carry only automobiles are often referred to as Car Carriers. The largest in service today is the MV Mignon, which is owned and operated by Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines of Sweden, can carry about 7,200 cars. Currently in service is the Tonsberg, a Mark V series ship, with a capacity of 8000 CEUs (Automobile Equivalent Units), which has been built in Japan and has made its maiden voyage to the port of Tacoma in the USA.
2 types:
RoRo goods
Mixed RoRo
Tourist cruises
A cruise ship is a type of passenger ship for pleasure trips, when the journey itself, the ship's services, and sometimes the different destinations along the way (i.e. ports of call) are part of the experience.
Traveling on a cruise is the most comfortable way to see the world in a few days, a pleasant formula to travel, without haste and knowing different cities.
Cruise modes:
• Cruises for the rest you need: walks on deck, sauna, spa ...
• Cruises for adventurers: visits to emblematic, interesting, beautiful cities ... At your own pace or with organized excursions.
• Cruises for gourmets: good food, with a drink on deck while you soak up the sun.
Container ship
Container ships are ships responsible for transporting cargo in standardized containers; They are used to transport all kinds of goods around the world. Containers are those that can be seen regularly in ports.
Container ships are usually equipped only with diesel engines and a crew that can vary from 20 to 40 people. The crew quarters and the wheelhouse are located in locations that form the 'tower', usually located at the stern of the ship (in some cases somewhat more forward) above the engine room.
The first container ships were built by modifying tankers, which in turn arose from the transformation of the Liberty surplus-class ships of World War II, the first entering service in 1956. Today, however, these ships are in a class of their own and are part of the largest ships in the world, apart from supertankers.
What else do you need to realize that this is your best option?
Contact us
Port Authority of Valencia: 963 939 500
Emergency Control Center: 900 859 573
Customer Service (SAC): 963 939 555
sac@valenciaport.com
Written by : Sara S. and Lucía S
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