*Today we took a chartered bus to go tour the port of Valencia. The port was huge and I’m walkable so we rode the bus all around. Our guide did a short presentation before our tour and these are the notes I collected:
-28 Port Authorities
- Their subsidiaries
- Sagunto
- Gandia
- Valencia
-Capacity of 4,000 cars
- Has about 30-60 quay cranes right now
- 1563: El Grau
- The Spanish Port System
-About 12-14 container comes in per day
-Turn around time: 24-48 hours
-Each port has its own program
- The Vessel Evolution
-Moving about 24,000 containers now, in 1950s it was only about 500-800
-Top 10 ports are located in China
-Top port in EU: Rotterdam (NL) in 2007, 2021, and 2022
-Top Spanish container port in 2021 was Valencia
- Intermodality
-Valencia is a shareholder of the dry ports
-60% of the containers in the Madrid area are operated through the Port of Valencia
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*after the visit we headed to lunch than the 7 of us headed to the airport for our weekend trip to I Ibiza.