Turia Terminal Operation Services within the Port of Valencia

The port of Valencia handles all kind of commodities for almost every sector of the Economy. The bulk of the goods belong to the following industries: furniture and wood products, textile, footwear, agriculture, food and feed (cereals, wine and beverages, canned goods, fruit, etc), fuels (gas-oil, petrol, coal), automobiles, construction (cement and clinker, ceramic, marble, etc.), machinery, etc.

It also manages regular passenger traffic from and to the Balearic Islands and Italy. In recent years, the port has experienced solid and steady growth in the traffic of cruise ships across the Mediterranean Sea. The port of Valencia is a financial hub for the region with an area of influence within 350 km that generates the 51 % of the Spanish GDP and groups half of the country’s active population. Its docks are 12 km long, and it has 1.2 km2 of storage area.

Balearia is a leading Spanish shipping company in the transport of goods and passenger towards the Balearic Islands, also connecting Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands with the Peninsula. At international level, it provides services in Morocco, Argelia and the Caribbean (connecting the United States with the Bahamas).

Balearia started its activity in the Port of Valencia in 2007 and has the right to operate the Turia terminal ever since. The Maritime Station in the Turia terminal has a surface area of 15 126 m2 and manages regular traffic at national level (Connecting the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands) and more recently at international level (with regular connections to Mostaganem-Algeria). The terminal hosts the regular national connections and additionally, it can manage international traffic as it has its own services for customs control and cross-border safety. The terminal also hosts several parking lots, driving areas, office buildings and prefabricated modules for police control and customs control.

This EPD considered all the services related to the main activity in the Terminal. All the companies operating the different services required for the management of the traffic of goods and passengers were identified for the year 2019