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Van Oord completes large-scale beach restoration project in Valencia
Van Oord completed the largest beach restoration in Spain’s history, restoring the beaches south of the city of Valencia to their original size. The beaches have been slowly eroding since 1965. The Spanish government contracted the joint venture of …
Apr 15, 2024 / Curious
Fundación Valenciaport to boost carbon neutrality in maritime transport through the POWER4MED project
Fundación Valenciaport has begun work on the POWER4MED project, an initiative that seeks to boost the transition towards carbon neutrality in maritime transport. This goal requires, in the short term, the use of transition fuels such as liquefied …
Mar 21, 2024 / Curious
Fundación Valenciaport's latest study will promote ammonia as fuel for ships
Fundación Valenciaport has started working on a study on the safety of ammonia as fuel, 'Study Investigating the Safety of Ammonia as Fuel on Ships'; an initiative that proposes to lay the foundations for the use of ammonia as fuel for ships. The …
Feb 28, 2024 / Curious
OOCL Introduces the First Eco-friendly 24,188 TEU Vessel in 2024, OOCL Valencia
Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. (OOCL) has introduced another new 24,000 TEU mega vessel. Caption: OOCL Valencia” is the seventh eco-friendly 24,188 TEU vessel in OOCL‘s fleet. The newest member in OOCL’s fleet was named “OOCL …
Jan 5, 2024 / Vessels
iTerminals project tests standard digital language for container terminals in real operations
On 13 December, the European consortium of the iTerminals4.0 project, an initiative led by Fundación Valenciaport and co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility Programme (CEF) of the European Commission, held its final conference. The main …
Dec 15, 2022 / Curious
The Port of Valencia and Baleària will invest 100 million euros in the new passenger terminal
The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) approved on Nov 10 the award to the Valencian company Baleària Eurolineas Marítimas S.A. of the construction and operation of the new public passenger terminal in the Port of Valencia. …
Nov 11, 2022 / Cruise
One out of every four cars managed by the Spanish ports passes through Valenciaport
Between January and August, 381,806 automobiles were moved, 17.8% more than the same period in 2021, according to data from Puertos del Estado. Among the main ports of these traffics, it is the one that has grown the most this year, leading the …
Oct 12, 2022 / Vessels
Carburos Metálicos Joins the H2PORTS Hydrogen Project Consortium
Carburos Metálicos will provide the renewable hydrogen needed for the project.Carburos Metálicos, a leading company in the industrial and medical gases sector in Spain that is part of the Air Products Group, has recently joined the consortium of the …
May 10, 2022 / Curious
APM Terminals is now operating with the most advanced TOS in the port of Valencia
APM Terminals Valencia has successfully completed the implementation of Navis N4 as its new terminal operating system (TOS). A process that began last Friday night, 4 February, with the scheduled interruption of operations for the migration of data, …
Feb 10, 2022 / Vessels
Fundación Valenciaport launches a new advisory service on pandemic management in ports
Keeping ports functioning during a pandemic is vitally important. Ports ensure that medical supplies, food, fuel, raw materials and manufactured goods, as well as vital components for maintaining employment, continue to reach their intended …
Sep 10, 2021 / Curious