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Port of Valencia slowly gets back to work after floods from rainstorms

Angelo Mathais India correspondent — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 13:50:24 +0000

Valencia Port is limping back to cargo activity after it was forced to halt operations in the aftermath of severe rainstorms that lashed the country’s south-eastern region last week.
The devastation from what was said to be the severest flash-flooding in Europe over the past five decades, is reported to have claimed some 100 lives.
Container lines have reported work resumption at Valencia on a “restricted scale”, as multiple landside challenges persist.
Hapag-Lloyd ...

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Ripples from IT outage could spread through supply chains ‘for weeks’

Charlotte Goldstone — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:11:24 +0000

The disruption and delays to air cargo services due to the global IT outage has highlighted supply chain vulnerability, and “could take days or even weeks to fully resolve”, according to Xeneta.
On Friday, a faulty update to Microsoft cyber-security software, authored by Texas firm Crowdstrike, saw global supply chain operations temporarily stunted across all modes.
The IT issue saw thousands of flights grounded or delayed at the largest air freight ...

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West Med transhipment tangle sees carriers eye Nador West port project

Gavin van Marle — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:24:51 +0000

With the Red Sea crisis continuing to perpetuate congestion across key container hubs in the West Mediterranean, a planned greenfield port in Morocco could become one of the most hotly contested port concessions in recent history.
Utilisation levels at the larger West Mediterranean container terminals have continued to climb over the past fortnight, as large volumes of ex-Asia shipments destined for the East Mediterranean have been transhipped.
The rerouting of vessels around ...

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Capacity problems loom as transhipment boxes clog major West Med hubs

Gavin van Marle — Thu, 09 May 2024 12:31:36 +0000

Fears of widespread congestion across west Mediterranean container ports may have abated for the present, but a prolonged continuation of the Red Sea crisis could place serious pressure on the region’s port capacity.
“Carriers are optimising their networks constantly, because obviously with the de facto closure of the Suez Canal, they wouldn’t let the ultra-large container ships go into a dead end all the time, as in going to the eastern ...

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Comment: AI can flatten the port infrastructure utilisation curve

Nick Savvides — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:37:56 +0000

Visits to a port by different means of transport need to be synchronised; ports and their ability to operate as a transit hub – smoothly and efficiently – are now under public scrutiny like never before.
It has now become clear that congestion in ports which has been emerging across the world is not only a concern for maritime and supply chain professionals, but even the largest economy.
As much as there ...

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Investment by ports ‘pivotal’ in boosting road-to-rail modal shift in Europe

Gavin van Marle — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:29:36 +0000

Action from port authorities, combined with “bold regulatory moves”, will be necessary to enable a modal shift from road to rail across Europe, a new report from McKinsey claims.
Bold Moves to Boost Rail Freight urges European governments to consider rail investment in the context of the “public good”, and highlights that profitability was rarely the first consideration when building, for example, a road between two small villages.
“However, for more than 30 ...

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Narcís Pavón promoted to COO of APM Terminals Spanish Gateways

Gavin van Marle — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:06:34 +0000

Narcís Pavón (pictured above) has been appointed as chief operating officer of APM Terminals Spanish Gateways, responsible for the strategic direction and leadership of the port operations of Valencia, Barcelona, Castellón and Gijón terminals.
He was previously head of asset maintenance of the import and export terminals of APMT in Spain.
He has also previously been CEO of APMT Barcelona and, before the purchase of the TCB Group terminals by APMT, he ...

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MSC proposes €1bn investment in Valencia’s planned fourth box terminal

Gavin van Marle — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 13:11:07 +0000

MSC’s terminal operating arm Terminal Investments Ltd (TIL) is set to plough more than €1bn into a new box facility at its west Mediterranean hub of Valencia.
Late last week the port authority of Valencia made public MSC’s bid to operate the port’s fourth container terminal – the sole bid that the port received for the project.
It said MSC had pledged to invest a total of €1.01bn in the project, which ...

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Mar Chao Lopez new commercial director at port of Valencia

Gavin van Marle — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:40:48 +0000

Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) has appointed Mar Chao López (pictured above) as its new commercial and business development director.
Ms Lopez was most recently general manager at Spanish port services company Reyser, which was acquired by DP World in the summer. She has also previously held positions at the port authorities of Coruna, Vigo and Ferrol.
PAV said she was selected ahead of more than 20 candidates with “wide experience and different nationalities”.

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Valenciaport prepares to work with 400-metre vessels in its three container terminals

LoadstarEditorial — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:36:31 +0000

The Port Authority of Valencia continues to work for the adaptation of its three container terminals to the last-generation vessels with capacity for up to 20,000 teu. The works, which are expected to be completed by the summer of 2018, have a budget of around €18m and aim to increase the maximum quota of the three terminals to 17 and 18 metres deep.

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