Ramón Gómez-Ferrer, Deputy Director of Strategic Planning at the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) participated today in the XV Business Meeting of ASECAM with a paper titled “Integration of the Port of Sagunto in the Trans-European Transport Network.”
During the conference, Gómez-Ferrer stressed that the port of Sagunto is a basic pillar for the economy of Camp de Morvedre region and the Valencian Community. In this sense, he recalled that “provisional data accumulated up to October this year show a 3% growth in the global traffic of the port of Sagunto, discounting natural gas” and continued “work done by PAV has made possible to diversify the enclosures traffic as evidenced by the fact that in 2001 more than 80% of the traffic channeled by Sagunto was general merchandise and today, that figure, stands at around 36%. This diversification has been key during the economic crisis period in which the traditional traffics were greatest injured. ”
In addition, the deputy director of PAV has also exposed the main challenges port of Sagunto is facing in medium term that focus on completing the use of the available port space, improving inspection services with the entry into service in 2018 of the new Border Inspection Center, the development of port-city integration with the opening of spaces for citizen use in the north area of the port, the enhancement of the Sagunto Parc ZAL and the improvement of road and rail accessibility, among others.