Expanding Port of Valencia gets stuck In bureaucratic procedures. One year after board Port Authority of Valencia (APV) Submit the construction project of the new container terminal (with relevant environmental changes and improvements in State Ports) to the central Government. Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility Oscar PuenteIt confirmed the Executive’s commitment to the “sustainable and emission-free development” of the Grao field, based in the capital of Túria.
Therefore, the head of the department, in front of a wide representation of business and political leaders, announced the formation of the next Council of Ministers. Tuesday, December 19– will authorize Tender worth over 656 million euros Works for the construction of a construction new public container terminal “innovative, flexible and sustainable.”
Under the watchful eye of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón; the mayor’s María José Catalá; government delegatePilar Bernabé, at the same time APV President Mar ChaoThe head of Spain’s transport and mobility policy has openly announced that the expansion of the above-mentioned maritime area is a project of “general interest”. Free from arguments and criticism from government partners Add-Commit, together to bePonte, who firmly rejected Valenciaport’s construction of this huge infrastructure, guaranteed that with the new terminal, “rail connections will also be encouraged to develop rail freight transportation, which will serve to remove heavy vehicles from the highway and the metropolitan area.”
“An ecological project”
“We are talking about an ecological project because it will initially be 100 percent energy-sustainable, self-sufficient and will provide clean energy on its own. There is also another fundamental problem, which is that the terminal construction is accompanied by a project to divert traffic from containers to trains. The northern terminal thus contains the largest railway terminal any port on the Iberian Peninsula will have. “Therefore, we are not only talking about a port operation, but also a very important railway operation,” he said. He also emphasized the importance of encouraging modal transfer to the train. Not for nothing, 92% of land traffic in the port of Valencia is still carried out by road, and “this is something we want to change”, the minister repeated.
Public-private collaboration
While the deadlines for administrative procedures, tenders and delivery of works are awaited, the new terminal will be developed through public-private cooperation and will exceed 1 billion 600 million euros in total, which will represent the largest private investment in its history. Spanish port system. “It is a port with a very serious traffic volume and has been operating in its own congestion band for a while. Forward-thinking managers need to foresee such situations and work to ensure that the infrastructure serves its purpose, that is, to facilitate the traffic of goods, when that time comes. “In this sense, work is being done on the new northern terminal project in Valencia,” he said. Oscar Puente. The port of Valencia is the first port in Spain and the fourth port in the European Union in container traffic.
government partners
In statements to the press and with reference to Compromís’ warning to ministers To add Puente, who will not vote in favor of the project, said he did not know what government partners would do, but that PSOE was “entirely consistent” with what they were advocating, as it had supported the project “for many years”. Both at the state and autonomous level.
Puente sent a message “Peace of mind for Valencians” He said that “environmental objections to the project are unfounded” and that the project should be analyzed “globally” and not “only considering its impact on the Saler beaches, which are subject to a remediation study”. 30 million euros have been invested”. “I hope they change their focus and the facts take them in another direction.”