The Port of Valencia will review the criteria applied to bonuses for containerized fruit and vegetable traffic. This was announced by the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) after the Board of Directors meeting held this Thursday in Valencia, without a subsequent press conference.
The APV explains that the “sensitivity of the APV to the concerns of Valencian farmers” has been revealed and the willingness to “contribute to facilitating and improving the competitiveness of the Valencian business and agricultural fabric” has been shown, after the demonstration held at the gates of the Port last Thursday, which resulted in one detainee. For this reason, the Authority has undertaken to review – within the framework of the preparation of the Business Plan – the applied criteria. Currently, and as explained by the Port, it provides a “generic” bonus for containerized fruits and vegetables, with exports specifically benefiting more.”
According to the annex published by the APV, the bonuses for fruits and vegetables in refrigerated containers are 30%. The nuance of “most benefited” that the Port refers to when talking about exports is due, as explained by PAV sources, to the fact that they are in the majority with respect to imports of the same products.
On the other hand, the Board of Directors has approved to extend the deadline for submitting offers for the construction project of the North Terminal as a result of the queries received through the Contracting Platform. Its objective is to maintain the initial deadlines for formalizing the contract.
The extension of the deadline is a consequence of two requests for clarification made through the State Contracting Platform, in which the impossibility reported by some of the potential bidders to currently find available dredgers with the required characteristics was revealed. Therefore, they point out that the consequent impact that this could have on the principle of free competition has been assessed, and the construction processes have been studied and analyzed again, considering it sufficient that the bidders could prove the availability of a back-excavation dredge. of the required characteristics.
Regarding the situation in the area of ????the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the Port admits that it continues to be unstable and “this is what the main shipping companies describe it”, although they point out that in the Port of Valencia they are working “normally.”
Finally, due to the celebration of the Chinese New Year and the almost complete paralysis of the country’s production and commercial activity between February 10 and 17, the Authority estimates that its effects will begin to be noticed six or seven weeks after this date, that is, at the end of March, with a slight decrease in the number of stops and TEUs of local import and transshipment cargo in services originating in the Far East.