 
  | PROJECT : Valencia, responsibility at the heart of development
The location of the Port of Valencia makes it a natural port of entry for Spain and the Spanish capital. This constitutes an advantage which public authorities and private investors have been able to exploit, making it the top Spanish port for containers. The port has thus enjoyed spectacular growth, more than doubling its traffic between 2000 and 2007, when it reached 53.6 million tons of cargo handled. The container sector has grown at the same rate, reaching the symbolic figure of 3 million TEU, twice the number recorded in 2001. Despite the first signs of the impact of the world crisis on the Spanish economy, the mid-year figures for 2008 indicated a further growth in container traffic of 9.72 %. This resilience is explained in part by the double card of transhipment and deep-sea traffic played by the port authorities and their partners.
Read more | NEWS.AIVP.ORG | | Ports are listening more and more to the city
Montreal, Marseille, Auckland …everywhere in the world, open days are attended by an unexpectedly large number of visitors; a success that testifies to the very real attraction of the port and to the citizens’ need to understand better the true nature of it. Ports are besides integrating more and more a chapter on consultation of the population in their development strategies, so as to better understand this discrepancy or even to associate the population in determining the future of their port. Over and above spot operations, the mobilisation of all means of communication is a practice leading to its generalisation. But other cards are also available. The creation of promenades with a view over the port, support to festive, sporting or cultural activities, and implication in social and educational life…. all these actions contribute to get the port fully recognised as a stakeholder in the life of the city.
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''Plan the City with the Port'' : download the Guide
A good number of you took part last May in the international seminar that completed 18 months of work and exchanges between the partners in the European project "Plan the City with the Port", a project led by the City of Le Havre. The Guide to Good Practices that stemmed from this work is now available. It provides a better understanding of the various urban-port redevelopment options currently being implemented, their challenges and their limits.
For IACP, who played the role of scientific coordinator throughout the project, it was also the occasion to make a synthesis of a certain number of constants which sound like as many recommendations for ensuring a sustainable blending in these connecting spaces between city and port.
At the time when the movement of the return of the ports to a contact with urban spaces is being confirmed in numerous port cities, we thus hope that you will find in this Guide and this synthesis, useful instruments to carry on with the complex, but stimulating construction of this common edifice comprised by our port cities.
-> Download synthesis (EN) - PDF 100 Ko
-> Download Guide (EN) - PDF 6.5 Mo
Debates : port in proximity: cooperation, competition and integration
Informing, discussing and making aware… these were the leitmotifs of this scientific meeting organised jointly by the Universities of Antwerp and Rotterdam last December. 35 researchers and academics, coming from the United States, Great Britain, China, Singapore, Japan and from Europe came together to debate the various modes of cooperation between port communities (spatial, political, cultural or economic) and their impact on growth and development strategies. [Read more...]
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