The president of the PAV has participated in the conference “Ports, tools of business competitiveness” organized by CEIM, the CEV and the Conexus Foundation.
The “hub” port conditions offered by its more than 1,000 connections are competitive advantages for exporting companies.
Valencia, November the 15th 2017. – The president of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Aurelio Martínez, explained to the Madrid businessmen who participated in the conference “Ports, tools of business competitiveness” the competitive advantages of trusting in Valenciaport. According to Aurelio Martínez, “the port of Valencia is above all a tool for improving the competitiveness of companies. Valenciaport is a ‘hub’ port, that is, a connection platform that connects us with more than 1,000 ports around the world. Therefore, we are a shuttle of products for the export that reduces costs and times, at the same time that it agglutinates all the services that the shipping companies and companies can need “. “To reach any market in the world,” Aurelio Martinez added, “you have to reach the terminals of the port of Valencia as soon as possible, and from that moment on everything will go on.”
Likewise, he indicated that ” the function port ‘hub’ of Valencia through which more than 130 regular lines pass is like the one developed for people by a large airport like Madrid where more than 70 airlines operate linking Madrid with 189 Destinations. The port of Valencia is for goods what Madrid or Frankfurt are for people. A connection to multiple and distant destinations. The maintenance of that function ‘hub’ of transoceanic port is our challenge for the future”.
On the other hand, the president of the PAV also emphasized that “the boats every day are larger. There are reports that already talk about container vessels of 50,000 TEUs for the next 50 years. That is more than doubling the capacity of the current 22,000 TEU huge vessels. We do not know what those vessels will be like, but we must be prepared to think about those challenges. These are ships that will require large investments and large drafts. In the future, not all ports will be able to be great hubs, but we will not give up that possibility that today gives us that condition “.
During the day, organized by the Business Confederation of Madrid, the Business Confederation of the Valencian Community and the Conexus Foundation, they have also participated the Minister of Development, the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, the presidents of the ports of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia, and representatives of companies that work in the enclosures. The meeting has allowed a hundred businessmen from Madrid to be able to know the opportunities offered by the business sector the proximity of Valenciaport and the ports of the Valencian Community as an entry and exit door for goods to the world.
For its part, the president of the port of Castellón, Francisco Toledo, explained that its port is growing twice the state average in recent years and is among the first ports of the Spanish port system in traffic of liquid and solid bulk, containers and containerized cargo, which reflects its high level of diversification and “is also the fifth in import / export”.
Finally, the president of the port of Alicante, Juan Antonio Gisbert, said that the site “competes and struggles to consolidate the assets, companies and lines it has. We are reinforcing the fact of being a natural freight port of the center of the Peninsula with the Canary Islands. In addition, we are exploring other connections with North Africa, mainly with Algeria.” Gisbert also explained that they are working to change, improve and update the port’s relationship with the city.