The conference is part of Valenciaport’s objective to get closer to the companies and managers responsible for load generation as a key element in improving their connectivity and competitiveness.
Aurelio Martínez has invited Aeutransmer and the loading companies to contribute ideas and establish priorities that contribute to the improvement of Valenciaport’s competitiveness.
The VCFI and ICP are key tools for chargers.
Valencia, 21 January 2020.- In a conference wich brought together this morning members of the Spanish association of shippers and users of goods transport, Aeutransmer, the president of the Valencia Port Authority (PAV), Aurelio Martínez, invited companies to “contribute ideas and establish priorities that contribute to improving the competitiveness of Valenciaport”. With these words, the president of the APV has opened a day framed in the objective of bringing the APV closer to the shipper to improve its competitiveness. In this sense, Aurelio Martínez recalled that the port is immersed in the study and development of major strategic projects “aimed at improving competitiveness” such as the new container terminal, rail connections, the implementation of eco-sustainability systems or energy efficiency, Smart ports, among others. “Projects that we want to contrast with a reference as it is for us Aeutransmer”.
Aurelio Martínez has wanted to put in value the indices developed in recent months by Valenciaport as “key tools” in terms of connectivity and competitiveness at the service of his community. Thus, the president of the APV has highlighted that, in an international environment marked by globalization, delocalization and the intensity of exchanges “connectivity is one of the key elements in determining the competitiveness of countries.
Aurelio Martínez has remembered that from the APV has worked to offer indicators that provide the port sector with information based on the measurement of data and that help in the decision making process. Thus, in terms of connectivity, Valenciaport publishes the ICP (Port Connectivity Index), an indicator prepared from the information contained in the Line Port database and which, in the words of the APV’s president, “allows us to find out the level of integration of the ports in the maritime chains of medium and short distance traffic (SSS)”. On this point Aurelio Martinez has valued the first place reached by the port of Valencia in the first half of the previous year given by an index that among other variables analyzes container traffic; the companies that operate; SSS services; the ships assigned or the frequency and number of ports connected, among others”.
Next to the ICP, Aurelio Martínez reviewed other indicators developed by the PAV that provide information on other matters such as: the cost of freight in the Mediterranean through the VCFI; economic impact and social impact studies or stopover times, “an only tool in the world that reflects the PAV commitment to transparency”.
Throughout the morning, the Clock Building at the Port of Valencia brought together representatives of companies from the cargo sector in a day that included the participation of the commercial and development director of Valenciaport. Mar Chao was in charge of presenting the Valenciaport project, as well as talking about its extensive network of connections – more than 1,000 ports in the world – which contribute to making it one of the top places in Europe in terms of container traffic. Representatives of companies such as Everis, Caixabank, Allinance, Transfesa Logistics, Etnor, Campofrio, Medlog Iberia and Etra, among others, attended the event.