This week, students of the EDEM Operations Management Programme and members of the Civil Engineering Association visited the port facilities

 The Port of Valencia, Spain’s main port in terms of container traffic and fourth in Europe, is a logistics centre of reference in Spanish economic activity. Every year, thousands of students visit its facilities to learn first-hand about the operation and services offered by Valenciaport to the export/import companies in its area of influence, and to learn more about the importance of the logistics-port sector for the economy. This week the students of the Executive Programme in Operations Management of the School of Companies, Business and Management (EDEM) and young members of the School of Civil Engineering have toured the Port of Valencia.

The Head of Operations of the Port Authority of Valencia, Rubén Marín, accompanied the EDEM delegation on their tour of the site and gave them a presentation of the programmes that Valenciaport is carrying out to reinforce its position as a strategic hub port in the Mediterranean. These objectives are focused on the environment and decarbonisation, digitalisation, innovation, the development of sustainable infrastructures, connectivity and commitment to intermodality with the railway and the city-port relationship. Subsequently, they visited the northern extension of the Port of Valencia where the new container terminal will be located and learnt about the operation of CSP Iberian Valencia Terminal.

For their part, fifty young collegiate members of Civil Engineering have also been checking the work of the port area, an activity framed in the l YWP Congress organized by the state network of the Young Water Professionals (YWP).