VALENCIA TO BUILD NORTH QUAY

BCT has ordered an additional ship-to-shore gantry crane, and has already started some infrastructure works in connection with the new quay.

Valencia Port Authority has issued a tender for the extension of the North Quay, which will gain 237 metres of linear quaywall, with alongside draught of 16 metres. The new operating area will be 23,000 sq metres. A second tender will cover construction of the access roads to the new extension area of the related Port of Sagunto, where up to 5,000 sq metres of new land is being added. Work must take no more than nine months and the reference price is ¢12.86m.