The Rotary Club Castellón visited the facilities of the Port of Castellón

The Rotary Club Castellón visited the facilities of the Port of Castellón. The members of this society, chaired by Mr. Javier Rodríguez Zunzarren, visited the northern and southern expansions, that is the Centenary Wharf and the South Basin respectively.

The President of the Port Authority of Castellón, Mr. Juan José Monzonís, and the Manager Director of the Port of Castellón, Mr. Roberto Arzo, explained the changes experienced in the port area since the last decade, which have supposed a multimillionaire investment and the creation of jobs.

PortCastelló awards to Lidia Muñoz Caro and Daniel Muñoz for their work on communication and the 110th anniversary logotype

The Port of Castellón, through Fundación PortCastelló, awarded the best communication project and the logotype commemorating its 110th anniversary. The award went to Lidia Caro and Daniel Muñoz, students of 4th year of Advertising and Public Relations at the Universitat Jaume I. The winners received a commemorative certificate and a 500€ cheque from the president of the Port Authority of Castellón, Mr. Juan José Monzonís.

Meeting sustainability at Alicante, within Secur Med Plus

Last 8th March, a meeting on sustainability framed within the project SECUR MED PLUS “Strategies and common actions to reinforce safety at Mediterranean maritime and logistics sectors” was held at the business center at Alicante Port.

The goal of this meeting was to seek suport amongst campanies from the port, logistics and transport at Alicante Port in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility and environment through the project SECUR MED PLUS, and European multiparty collaboration, with members such as FEPORTS and other European partners.

PortCastelló will give an award to the best work of Communication referred to its 110 anniversary reported by the UJI

PortCastelló, through Fundación PortCastelló, will give a 500€ award to the best work of communication designed by students of Jaume I University. The students of 4th year of Bachelor degree and 3rd course of the degree of Advertising and Public Relations should carry out a communication campaign that will include the design of a logo for the 110 anniversary of the Port Authority of Castellón to be held next 2nd of April.

Puertos del Estado will deal with Ministry of Fomento to push on PortCastelló entry ways

The President of the Port Authority of Castellón, Mr. Juan José Monzonís, and the President of Puertos del Estado, Mr. José Llorca, have agreed up the costruction of the South railway link to PortCastelló. For the first time at the present government term both Presidents have departed on relevant Port issues. Along with them, Mr. Roberto Arzo, PortCastelló Director, spent three hours dealing with important matters, such as both road and rail links. Puertos del Estado showed commitment to deal with the Ministry of Fomento the promotion of meetings with the General Boards of Roads and Railways along with PortCastelló.

PortCastelló keeps its commitment to ceramics with a new ship to transport raw materials

PortCastelló has just received the maiden visit of the ship Genmar of the turkish company Batinak Shipping. This ship was built in 2011 and is able to hold 35,000 tons. According to the president of the Port Authority of Castellón, Mr. Juan José Monzonis, it “reinforces the commitment of PortCastelló to Ceramics and other industrial sectors of the Castellón province”, as he stated while handing a commemorative plaque to the ship Captain, Mr. Tuncer Ozaslan.

Consigned by Roca Castellón consignaciones, S.L., this ship measures 180 m in length and 30 m in width and teams up with two more vessels devoted to feldspar imports from Turkey. With feldspar deliveries every two weeks, Batinak brought in 600.000 tons to the Port of Castellón during 2011.

PortCastelló is first at promoting an application for mobiles and tablets

PortCastelló along with Fundacion PortCastelló, through the local company Cuatroochenta, is developing the first application for mobiles and tablets of a port at Spain called PortCastelló, innitially designed for iphone and focusing on informing about port news.

The application will also allow to share the news with our contacts by email and to link port news to social networks (facebook and twitter) and access general port information of interes. This application will be available for Androit phones and tablets soon.

PortCastelló ranks 6th in Spain in terms of container traffic

PortCastelló ended 2011 as the 6th Spanish port in container traffic, with 124.920 TEUs, following Vigo with 172.803, according to Puertos del Estado, as a result of a 26% increase this activity. Along with this, it was the first port in terms of bulk cargo at the Valencian Comunity, with 3.244.831 tons against 2.374.045 at Valencia and 724.112 at Alicante.

This positive evolution leans on the renewed support of the ceramic cluster in the port of Castellón, that has become the entry point of all raw materials for ceramic manufacturing as well as doubling the exports of tiles and finished products.

PortCastelló shows the biggest growth among ports at the Comunidad Valenciana during 2011

PortCastelló has been the first growing Port at the Comunidad Valenciana in 2011 in terms of goods traffic, with a 5.1% increase compared to 2.20% at Alicante and 2.71% at Valencia Port, according to Puertos del Estado.

The figures obtained by PortCastelló in 2011 show a volume of 13.1 million tons versus 12,4 the previous year, and an increase of 27,000 containers to reach 130,000 TEUs, 26% more than in 2010 and a record so far.

PortCastelló grows by 5.1% and achieved a new record with 130,000 containers in 2011

The Port of Castellón has closed 2011 with a growth of 5.1 percent over the last year, it has broken a record in container traffic, goods and tile exports, as announced today the president of the Port of Castellón, Mr. Juan José Monzonís, during the Board of Directors of the Port which was chaired by the president of the Generalitat, Mr. Alberto Fabra, and in which the Councillor of Infrastructure, Ms. Isabel Bonig, was also present.