Nordana to shift Spanish port operations

Effective January 1, 2010, Nordana will shift its Spanish operations from Valencia port to Sagunto port.  This pertains to the regular Ro/Ro multipurpose liner service Nordana operates between US/ North Africa and the Mediterranean areas returning via Venezuela, Caribbean Islands and Central America/Mexico to Houston.
Both Valencia port and Sagunto port are within the Port of Valencia authority.  This change is being made to accommodate Valencia’s long range plans, whereby multipurpose cargo is expected to be handled exclusively at Sagunto.
“In order to minimize any future inconvenience to our clients or disruption to our service, Nordana is acting now on an operational situation we see as inevitable,” said Steen Obst, Vice President, Americas.  “In recent years we have steadily increased our focus on non-containerized cargoes.  We have previously moved operations from Barcelona to Tarragona, following our strategy of matching the multipurpose cargo handling skills of our vessels and crew with the same level of skill and expertise in our terminals.  Shifting to Sagunto follows that same movement to ever-increasing levels of quality service.”
Facilities at Sagunto are scheduled to be continually expanded over the next 2 years, allowing customers to benefit from better and more economical cargo handling in a port that remains largely without 
congestion, while being easily accessible to the main traffic corridors to central Spain and the local region of Valencia.
The first vessel to call Sagunto will be the MV Skanderborg v. S936 on January 16, 2010.

Source: Transport Weekly