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Aznar: the port of Valencia is losing competitiveness
According to the president of the Harbour Authority, is necessary a decrease of the costs of the put into effect harbour activities with the competition of the operators and the social parts
December 18, 2013
the port of Valencia is losing competitiveness and could lose the leadership of the traffic container in the Mediterranean. The warning has been launch from the same president of the Harbour Authority of the Spanish port of call, Rafael Aznar, that it has evidenced like the lack of an agreement on the costs of the harbour activities, in particular of those of the harbour job, can undermine the competitiveness of the port, while - according to Aznar - the bending of the traffic arouses yes worry, but does not alarm. According to the president of the harbour agency, in fact, there is still time in order to analyze the problems and in order to resolve them.
the harbour agency of Valencia has announced that in the first eleven months of the 2013 containerized trade enlivened from the port of call it has recorded a contraction of the -3,5% regarding the same period last year and that the single containerized trade of transhipment is diminished of -6,3%. Altogether, thanks to the increase of +9.4% of the traffic of the bulk and to the conventional increase of +4.5% of the goods, the traffic total of the goods has shown a bending less emphasized and pairs to the -2,2% regarding the period January-November of 2012.
Aznar also has stopped on the possible loss of services of the new shipowning alliance P3 Network, constituted recently from the leaders of the market of the services of line Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM, inclined to move some routes towards the ports of the Europe North. The president of the Harbour Authority of Valencia has been said "obsessed" from the hypothesis and has not found that this that it must be made is to work in order to supply the best service to the best price. In particular, Aznar has evidenced the necessity to overwhelm the differences of cost in the operations of transfer of containerized cargos respect to other concurrent ports, between which Algeciras, and it has turned an exhortation to the operators and the social parts so that a development of the competitiveness in a context of social peace is determined.
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the port of Valencia is losing competitiveness and could lose the leadership of the traffic container in the Mediterranean. The warning has been launch from the same president of the Harbour Authority of the Spanish port of call, Rafael Aznar, that it has evidenced like the lack of an agreement on the costs of the harbour activities, in particular of those of the harbour job, can undermine the competitiveness of the port, while - according to Aznar - the bending of the traffic arouses yes worry, but does not alarm. According to the president of the harbour agency, in fact, there is still time in order to analyze the problems and in order to resolve them.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
