Ro-Ro traffic and the Motorways of the Sea are key services within Valenciaport’s maritime offering, reinforcing its role as a leading intermodal hub in international trade. These services enable efficient integration between sea and land transport, facilitating the movement of lorries, semi-trailers, intermodal transport units (ITUs) and vehicles without the need for cranes.

Valenciaport offers a wide range of regular short-sea shipping services (TMCD) and motorways of the sea that connect its docks with the main ports of the Mediterranean and Europe, helping to reduce costs and emissions by diverting traffic from the roads to the sea.

Among the shipping companies providing these services, the following stand out:

Grimaldi

  • It operates from the ports of Valencia and Sagunto through the Grimaldi Group and its subsidiary Grimaldi Euromed, which run regular Ro-Ro services and ‘motorways of the sea’ routes to Italy (such as Livorno, Savona, Cagliari and Salerno) and other Mediterranean destinations, using vessels specialising in rolling cargo and PCTC (Pure Car & Truck Carrier) units.

Baleària (combines Ro-Ro and Passenger Services)

  • From Valenciaport, it offers passenger and vehicle ferry services between Valencia and the Balearic Islands (particularly Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza), freight services between the mainland and these destinations, and international ferry connections to North Africa, such as Mostaganem in Algeria.

GNV (combined Ro-Ro and Passenger Service)

  • Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) specialises in the maritime transport of passengers and vehicles by ferry between Valencia and Palma de Mallorca and Ibiza.

You can visit the corporate websites of each of these companies to find up-to-date and detailed information. Note how Grimaldi specialises in pure Ro-Ro (Roll-on Roll-off) services, i.e. goods that are loaded onto and unloaded from the ship on their own wheels; and how Baleària and GNV add passenger services to this type of traffic, in what is known as Ro-Pax, that is, Roll-on/Roll-off and passenger transport.

Taken together, these Ro-Ro connections and motorways of the sea position Valenciaport as Spain’s leading port for road traffic, handling more than a fifth of the national total and establishing itself as a benchmark in the implementation of sustainable and efficient transport solutions.

The rail-port motorway

In addition to the options offered by Ro-Ro connections and the Motorways of the Sea, the Valenciaport rail-port link represents a pioneering initiative in Spain and the Iberian Peninsula.

The Port of Valencia rail motorway is a combined road-rail transport infrastructure that enables lorry semi-trailers to be loaded directly onto trains for journeys such as Valencia–Madrid, thereby easing road traffic and reducing emissions.

The rail motorway has been developed by the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) with support from the Spanish Ministry of Transport, NextGenerationEU/Spanish Government funding, and is operated by logistics companies such as Tramesa, TransItalia and the rail operator Medway. The terminal is located on the port’s eastern quay and can handle over 10,000 lorries a year, with trains up to around 750 metres long and services that now run four times a week between Valencia and Madrid (equivalent to around 200 scheduled departures a year). This transport option is estimated to save around 16,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.