Motorways of the sea reduce CO2 emissions and entail significant economic savings. In the Valencia- Italy line, this saving from the boat respect to the truck is between 30% and 50%
The president of Valenciaport has announced that the port of Valencia will have from June a fixed gas station.
Valencia 22th of November 2018.- Aurelio Martínez, president of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), opened this morning the annual conference of the Spanish Association for the promotion of short sea shipping (SPC Spain), held at the clock building of the port of Valencia. The president of Valenciaport has been accompanied by María José Rallo, general secretary of transport; Álvaro Rodríguez Dapena, representative of ‘Puertos del Estado’ and Manuel Carlier, president of SPC-Spain.
During his speech, the president of Valenciaport thanked the employers of short shipping (TMCD) the choice of the port of Valencia as the venue for their aunnual meeting and expressed the involvement and support of Valenciaport to the development of this type of transport. In this sense, Aurelio Martínez has shown the importance that the port of Valencia -specialized in container traffic- has been charging in the short-distance maritime services of ro-ro traffic and that it has managed to “become the leader in Spain in regular connections with countries of the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Baltic. Especially relevant are the motorways of the sea that connect the ports of Valencia and Sagunto with ports in northern and southern Italy”
Aurelio Martínez has highlighted the potential of ro-ro traffic for the Valenciaport that reached 9.5 million tons of total traffic last year. In this month of October, the haulage, with an accumulated growth of 12% has reached 8.7 million tons. The haulage in the port of Valencia has the singularity of being “pure” without passage and represents each year more than 200.000 platforms transported between the ports of Valencia and Sagunto. In addition to automobiles, this type of traffic is used by goods such as oil, wine, machinery, packaged food products or refrigerated products.
In terms of intramodality, Aurelio Martínez recalled that Valenciaport has invested in infrastructure, new areas and rail connections “expanding and making the offer of spaces more attractive”. In the same way, the president of the PAV has indicted “the logistic operators, the shippers, the shipping companies have bet for us and together we have achieved that Valencia is recognized as a port of motorways of the sea”
The president of the PAV has valued positively the effort made by the European Union in the enhancement of rail traffic but has called for more attention to the motorways of the sea for its ability to generate synergies. “The shipowners themselves recognize that in the traffic Valenica- Italy the savings of the boat with respect to the truck can be estimated between the 30% and the 50%. In addition, it has very important environmental advantages by significantly reducing CO2 emissions”. For this reason, it has influenced the importance of having inter-port connections that increase the efficiency of the railway network.
Likewise, Aurelio Martínez pointed out that the port of Valencia is one of the 20 most important ports in Europe and that it concentrates half of all European Union merchandise traffic. The president of Valenciaport recalled that Europe is a power port that has 1200 ports and between them, 316 are those that centralize the volume of Inter-european traffic and 83 integrate the “main network”. Of the almost 3900 million tones handled in 2016, 1400 correspond to inter-european traffic. Before these data Aurelio Martínez denounced the “little attention paid by the European Union to the motorways of the sea”
During his speech, Aurelio Martínez expressed the commitment of Valenciaport for the environment and announced that the PAV is working on a project to open a fixed gas station for ships, which will be operational over next June.