July 18, 2023 – Day 13

Today we traveled from Valencia to Barcelona. The train ride went much smoother this time around. I was able to reflect on a lot of the things I learned on this trip both academically and personally. Starting with academics; the companies we visited gave great insight on different aspects of logistics such as transportation, warehousing, lean, six sigma, port operations, and sustainability. Seeing these classroom concepts in real life have given me such a better understanding for Supply Chain and logistics. Personally I feel that I have gained so much knowledge about the Spanish culture. A lot of this comes from the food we’ve been eating but also interacting with the people in everyday life. Another skill I have enhanced are problem so living skills. This came through not speaking any Spanish and having to improvise with the language barrier while trying to communicate and while using public transport. Overall I am beyond thankful for the opportunity to have competed this study abroad trip.

July 17, 2023 – Day 12

Today we visited Raminatrans, a prominent logistics company know for its exceptional transportation and freight services. The following are notes and what we leaned there. Please note the guides English wasn’t that great so it was difficult to understand him.

First warehouse in logistic chain

• Warehouse main function is to receive containers from Valencia port and unload here
• Buffer warehouse

Warehouse Contents

• paper (24 roles will fit in a container due to weight)
• TVs
• Water heater
• Dishwasher
• Washing machine
• Food products
• Motor bikes
• Water

Company is one of the biggest importers from china in Spain

Warehouse size: 17,000 square meters

For the most part Goods are not custom checked yet when they arrive

Have to Mount motor bikes at warehouse

July 14, 2023 – Day 9

Today we visited the Port of Barcelona. We had private transportation to and from the port, and I would suggest this for everyday for the trip next yet. Once we arrived to the port we met with Julie and she gave us a small presentation (notes to follow), and a tour of the port. The tour of the port very interesting and fascinating. We got to go on one of the arms and we’re able to see all the terminals of the port. We were also able to watch a ship leave the terminal! That concluded our educational day! Below are notes from the port.

Valencia port is also know as the port of Madrid

Spain is #1 in container imports

Porta of Spain are public

Harbor is 20M in depth

Improving railways from 2 to 4

1556 is when we see the port start to develop

The Spanish port System

28 total port authorities

2 subsidiaries:

• • Sagunto (north)
  • Ganndia (south)

For environmental aspects the Port of Valencia can not grown more terminals into the ocean

3 main alliances

• maersk
• Ocean Alliance
• The Alliance

Valencia is 7 hours from the main Mediterranean route (closest in EU)

12-14 container ship per day and turn around time can be between 24-48 hours

2.6 million TEU in 2022

Ranked #4 in the top 15 ports in the EU in 2022

In 2021 Valencia was ranked #1 Port of Spain

Sustainability:

Wants to be 0 Carbon emissions by 2030

• • Adding windmills
  • Electric cars

July 13, 2023 – Day 8

This morning I woke up feeling sick. My body was achy and my chest was tight. Because of this I had to miss the visit at Fundación ValenciaPort. However Dr. Gonzalez was able to provide me, and the others that were sick, with a recording of the lecture. Here are notes from the lecture:

• Puerto de Estado

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

• valencia port

• port authority is the development

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

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

July 12, 2023 – Day 7

Today we travels to Valencia. Our first train was at 8:20 so we had to be out the door of the hotel by 7:15 am. The train took us to Madrid where we had to catch a tram where we had to get on the train to Valencia. I have to say the logistics of transportation on this trip has not been the best and the train situation was by far the worst. Nevertheless, we made it to Valencia! After getting settled in we went and toured ciudad de las artes y las ciencias. It was beautiful and I loved hearing the history about the architect Santiago Calatrava. That concludes our first day in Valencia!

July 11, 2023 – Day 6

This morning we had a visit to the Port of Barcelona. In our presentation we learn the following–

Main characteristics of a port:

• breakwaters:
  • Ports main investment

Owner of the land is the state

• Body managing land is a government agency
• direct management is nominated by regional government

Categories of Port

• services
• Took port- owner of the land and used to be the owner of the equipment
• Land Lord Port- Port gives space to private lenders

The Ports mission: create value for economy, increase competitiveness, provide better logistics solutions.

Plan to Achieve Missions:

• sustainable growth
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Environmental
• Digitalization/ Small Ports

IV Strategic Plan (2021-2025)

Mission: prompte prosperity in community

Vision: SMART Logistics

Sustainability Strategic Axis

Environmental – energy transition

• air quality improvement plan
• Partnerships with other ports to cope with climate change
• Increase of intermodality

Economic – competitiveness

• Diversification of port business
  • Port of Barcelona has 4 ports
    • City port, passenger port, commercial port, logistics port

Social – human capital

• Promote training, employment, entrepreneurship and attraction of talent
• Promotion of equal opportunity
• Integration of the port in its urban
• Ensure safety and health and security

After the port lecture we went on a harbor tour and learned about the history and operations of the port canal. After lunch we had a presentation with the Alonso Group, we’re we discussed the following-

Sustainability is a key focus

• • 10 year sustainable plan
  • Failed Trails of Green hydrogen

Reduce waste examples

• decrease packaging

Operinter opened in 1983

Mission: logistics made simple smarter and sustainable

Range of services:

Maritimes transport

Land transport

Air transport

Infrastructures

Project Cargo

Picking and packing

Service e-commerce

Global Presence

Offices in Asia, Europe, South America, North America, and Africa

Technology drives operations and improves customer experience

• cutting edge tracking system: own system

That concluded our day!

July 10, 2023 – Day 5

The day started off with a metro ride to Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I have really started to get the hang of the metro and have memorized what our hotel station is and which direction to exit. Upon arrival we met with Albert Beltran. We’re he discussed the following:

Definition of logistics:

• organization
• Efficiency
• planning

Logistic Management

The process of strategically managing the procurement, movement and storage of materials while maximizing profit

The objective to to plan and coordinate to achieve desired level of service

Procurement through delivery

Goal is to satisfy customer

Lean / Muda System –

Organization of businesses to create less to reduce cost and time and maximize profit

7 Rs of Logistics

Logistics system:

*see slide diagram

Integrate all the activities into one system

The future of Logistics Video-

Political and economic instability

DHL – leading company of logistics

• • transportation
  • Warehousing – smart warehousing
  • Delivery

DHL Sustainability

• • Solar
  • Electric  – own CO2 free trucks
  • Bikes

Port is the most important infrastructure

Large companies profit from using their own logistics

Supply Chain

Raw Material -> supplier -> factory -> distribution -> retail -> customer

His presentation was insightful and interesting. We then went and had lunch at La Pepa. The first course was good, the second course was interesting. After lunch we took the metro back to the hotel where we started out class period of the day. We had a great session on learned further on the topic of lean and lean processes to conclude the day!

July 8, 2023 – Day 4

Today some of the other students and I went shopping. We took the metro to a popular shopping spot in Barcelona. Later in the evening we all got ready and went to dinner. It was a late dinner and we didn’t realize that almost all dinner spots closed early Sunday through Tuesday so we almost missed all open dinner places. We eventually found a spot and had a quick dinner. After we ate we went to go home and realized the metro was closed. We were able to get a taxi back to the hotel and that concluded our day. We have learned many important life skills in such a short amount of time, I’m excited to see what the rest of the trip holds! 

July 7, 2023 – Day 3

Today we visited Parc Grüell. We took the metro fairly close to the park, and walked the rest of the way there. We hiked up the steepest stairs I’ve ever been on, it looked super daunting at first but we made it up. The park was stunning and had the best views of Barcelona. I would recommend it to anyone who is visiting. 

July 6, 2023 – Day 2

We started off the day by conquering public transportation to get to our first meeting at Estoko. We weren’t provided with a physical address of the company, so as we walked around getting different directions from different locals, we basically took a walking tour of Parc Logistic. Never the less we persevered and used problem solving skills and team work to eventually find the company! We learned about the logistics start up and toured the 3D Incubator. We then enjoyed a nice lunch. After lunch we went to the market and learned about the history and see all the vendors. After that we concluded the day at Sagrada Família. It was beyond beautiful and I really enjoyed learning all the history. Overall it was another successful day!