Representatives of FERRMED visit the port of Valencia to know its infrastructures and railway accesses of the intermodal terminal and logistics Font de Sant Lluís.
The business association is scheduled to visit the port of Sagunto in the coming months.
Valencia, 23 January 2020.- The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), has committed itself to collaborate and provide information, experience and data for the drafting of the study on the current state of the railway infrastructure being carried out by FERRMED. Manuel Guerra, assistant general manager of the PAV expressed the availability of Valenciaport to collaborate with FERRMED in the course of the recent visit that the delegation of this institution, headed by its president, Joan Amorós and by its secretary general, Josep M. Rovira, recently made to Valencia to get to know closely the infrastructures and railway accesses of the intermodal and logistics terminal Font de Sant Lluís.
During the visit, the representatives of FERRMED could know the characteristics of the two public railway terminals for container traffic operated by APMT and CSP Spain, as well as the projects that the PAV plans to undertake in the short term related to railway transport. In this sense, the following projects were presented:
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- Reshaping of the tracks at the Príncipe Felipe Quay railway terminal: a project that will consist of extending the current section tracks to 750 m, installing mixed width on the access tracks and on two of the section tracks and extending the electrification to the head of the track beach.
- Improvement of the railway and road network between the Muelle de Poniente and the Muelle de Costa in the port of Valencia, which includes the construction of a new beach of tracks, as well as the elimination of level crossings.
- Development of the intermodal and logistics terminal in Valencia Fuente de San Luís through the agreement published last May between the Ministry of Development, the Regional Ministry of Housing, Public Works and Territorial Organisation of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencia City Council, ADIF, State Ports and the Valencia Port Authority. This project will have a total investment of 67 million euros, of which 18.15 million will be provided by the PAV.
- New rail freight access to the Port of Sagunto (Valencia) and improvements to its connection with the Mediterranean Corridor and the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor.
On behalf of the APV, the visit was attended by Manuel Guerra, assistant general manager; Juan M. Diez, head of Planning and Control; and Manuel J. García, from the Planning and Control area. Also attending were Miguel Marín, from APTM, and Eduardo Orellana, representing CSP, Spain. A visit by FERRMED to the port of Sagunto is planned for the coming months.
FERRMED
FERRMED is a multisectorial business association that works with the objective of join Europe from North to South by means of a railway corridor that connects the areas of greatest economic and logistical activity, especially promoting port and airport connections. It is made up of public and private entities, companies, chambers of commerce, port authorities, etc.