The Board of Directors of the Port Authority of Valencia (APV) has approved today in an Extraordinary Board of Directors the document that contemplates the legal-economic conditions for the tender for the new terminal located in the northern expansion of the Port of Valencia.
The meeting was held after receiving the 'green light' (authorizing the contract) - on Tuesday of this week - from the Government of Spain so that the PAV could approve the specifications that will allow the file to be started that will lead to the construction of the new container terminal.
“We have gotten down to work, there is not a minute to lose,” highlighted Mar Chao, president of the PAV after finishing the meeting, which was held online and was held at 8:30 a.m. The tender notice will be published shortly in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and on the Public Sector Contracting Platform of Spain. The deadline for submitting offers for all companies that are interested ends on March 6, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.
The base tender budget for the construction project of the new terminal (dredging, dock and consolidated filling) amounts to more than 660 million euros (VAT included), after receiving the approval and approval of the PAV Board of Directors in a session held on December 2, 2022.
Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the Port, is the Ciutat-Port Commission, a citizen platform made up of neighborhood associations, environmentalists and unions from Valencia and its metropolitan area, which this Friday warned that the fight against the "aggressions" of the Port Authority "will continue with renewed strength." The entity has stated this after learning that the tender for the works of the northern expansion of the port of Valencia, agreed by the extraordinary board of directors of the Port Authority of Valencia, has been agreed.
The Commission also accuses its president, Mar Chao, and the politicians who support the project of "being hostages to port lobbies" and warns of the "health, environmental, economic and reputational cost" of the project. In his opinion, the project reveals "inefficient management" of the PAV, "it does not respond to any real need of the Valencian economy" nor does it provide added value to local commerce and "it departs from the general interest." They also criticize that "it will involve a disproportionate volume of public spending (close to 800 million euros)" and represents "a very worrying real threat to our territory and our tangible signs of identity: the Albufera, the beaches and the orchard."
