07/13/2023

Day 8

I was up all night sick, so I was not able to attend Fundación Valenciaport. Dr. Gonzalez sent us a video of the lecture and Nik sent us some notes, so we would be caught up. Once I took some Tylenol and went to the pharmacy to get some medicine, I was feeling a little better. By 7:30, I felt even better. I went to get a spray tan with Elizabeth and Victoria since we are going to Ibiza tomorrow. After getting spray tans, Elizabeth and I met up with Matt and Nik at a sushi restaurant called Fuji. It was super good and we got a lot of food. After that, we went back to the hotel! Here are notes from the tour today:

Notes:

• Puerto de Estado

• the public body in charge of the central governments port policies

• valencia port

• port authority is the development and maintenance of the respective maintenance

• the València ports consist of Sagunto, València and Gandia

• Valencia facilities

• container terminals

• a future container terminal

• liquid bulk

• solid bulk

• vehicles and Ro-ro cargo

• passengers

• future passenger terminal

• the future terminals will increase the capacity capabilities of the port

• Northern terminal expansion

• private investments 1,021 million euros

• public investments 400 millions euros

• job creation – 5000 new jobs

• energy self sufficient terminal  aligned with 2023 zero emissions objective

• 98% of the machinery will be electrics and 100% from renewable sources

• on shore power supple

• will take it up to 5 million containers

• Sagunto facilities

• multipurpose terminal

• future multi purpose terminal

• vehicles and Roro terminals

• liquid bulk

• solid bulk

• Tons/type presentation

• 75% of traffic is general containerized goods traffic

• 40% of container traffic is through the València port in the Spanish port authority

• Ranking

• top global container port – #27

• Top European port – #4

• Top container traffic – #1

• Teus load, unload, transit

• #1 in spanish ports

• mixed gate/hub – foreign trade and transshipment port

• 5.6 million TEUs

• Valencia port container traffic:

• doorway to the mediterranean to other countries worldwide

• China is the #1 country of origin/destination of container traffic handled with València

• Container shipping lines in operating in Valencia port

• 3 main alliances

• 2M – Maersk line, MSC

• Ocean Alliance – oocl, cosco, evergreen, CMA CGM

• The alliance – Hapag, ONE, HMM, Yang Ming

• Some other global and regional shipping lines such as sealand, hamburg, etc.

• Mediterranean gate-Hub

• a competitive offer from Valencia port

• In the area of influence of valencia resides half of the spanish population

• generates 55% of the GDP

• Intermodality and railway corridors

• Madrid is largest dry port

• 3 railway corridors and reefers

• Project: zero net emissions

• Energy transitions

• wind and photovaltaica

• installation of 132 KV electrical substation

• use of hydrogen port machinery

• Use of LNG in ships

• clean terminals

• zero im mission terminal in northern expansion

• yard machinery electrified

• zero emission passenger terminal

• environmental bonuses

• Objective 2023 zero emissions

• complementary València – Sagunto rail

• energy self sufficient

• smart port

• intermodal ports/transport centers extended ports

Questions:

⁃ In comparison to the Barcelona port, does the València port or Barcelona handle more international movement? I feel like València location wise would have more of an opportunity but size wise I also feel like Barcelona has the machinery and traffic to move more internationally

⁃ railway comparisons and domestic shipment capabilities in camparison to Barcelona

⁃ Warehouses associated with the the València port

Fundacion Valeciaport Notes:

• Valencia poet knowledge hub in charge of innovation, projects, and running the information system

• who they are

• center of applied research and an innovation training center

• developing projects in other countries

• serves port logistics cluster

• they have their own board of directors

• sea boat lines and universities etc

• innovation and R&D&I projects

• knowledge and management

• cooperation around the world providing technical assistance and promote internationalization

• market intelligence

• supporting the port logistics community and social responsibility strategy

• Numbers:

• 500 partners

• 309 projects

• 60 countries

• Clients

• intl institutions

• government

• exporters and importers

• inland and dry ports

• railway

• Ro-ro

• bulk and multipurpose

• etc

• Team

• over 70

• backgrounds from engineers to lawyers etc.

• 100% technical staff with university degree

• 75% with master or doctorate

• Management

• port maritime

• port planning

• logistics

• integration between port and city

• digitalization

• Market intelligence

• valencia confainerized freight index

• economic environment analysis

• market insights

• port connectivity

• market and sectoral analysis

• demand and traffic

• port planning and management

• strategic and master plans

• port community quality systems

• financial and socio-economic analysis of logistics

• traffic and demand forecast

• provide solutions in regards to port planning in other port systems

• key decisions of Panama canal

• changes in industry

• economic and political changes

• design new terminals etc

• Port logistics

• integrating global supply change

• project planet

• understanding and assimilating global geopolitical and tradI

• I terminal project

• boost digitalization

• they can see efficiency and productivity analysis

• can study where there will be gaps and decide where they can improve

• sustainability and energy transition

• green C ports project

• development and installation of a network of environmental and meteorological sensors to be tested in different European ports and their port city interfaces

• internal users and external users

• H2ports

• starting to use hydrogen

• implementing fuel cells and hydrogen technologies in ports

• first ever implementation of hydrogen technologies in port handling equipment in Europe

• security and protection

• Praetorian

• protection of critical infrastructures from advanced combined cyber security

• digital transformation

• data and artificial intelligence

• Asignat project

• digital twin architecture and machine learning service for road and freight transport planning

• specify and develop a system for calculating and updating the ETA in real time

• design and develop intelligent tools based on machine learning

• implement a global digital twin model

• provide solutions in regards to port planning in other port systems

• Herit Data

• sustainable heritage management towards mass tourism impact thanks to a holistic use of Big and open data

• international cooperation

• digital transformation in efforts of improving the port system in portugal

• CMA-CGM

• project related to how the terminal can reduce emissions to turn to low or zero carbon

• Working Method

• understand needs

• analysis benchmark

• market

• innovation

• project management

• consortiums

• funding

• coordination management and high value activities

• solution developments

• implementation/deployment

• market

• Valenciaport Innovation plan

• zero emissions

• reduce carbon emissions

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Questions:

⁃ Is there a Valenciano and Spanish language requirements?

⁃ is the zero emissions goal in 2023 something that’s being enforced on the government level or just an effort from the ports themselves?

Opentop project notes:

• Wfforts to make safer, smarter, and more efficient ports

• First steps in open innovation

• many projects to assist in implement open communication between external and internal parties

• digitalization

• trade tech fund

• Combatting climate change projects

• innovation hub of leading port

• 1st Med container traffic

• 1st innovation hub in the Spain port system

• >1M passengers

• Opentop:

• R&D innovation

• read watch and development on innovative concepts for port logistics

• training

• in and with new technologies

• startup incubation and acceleration

• support best startups whike testing technology

• establishing win-win relationships

• venture capital fund

• investment opportunities for companies and funding for start ups

• labs

• ideal environment and infrastructure to test new technologies and their applications to port and logistics business

• programs designed to create connections

• Hackathon

• idea and solution generation

• incubation/acceleration program

• early access to new technologies and business models for the oartner

• access to potential customers

• pilots

• test and pilot technological solutions in a real-world environment

• funding

• investment opportunities in interesting startups