Nordana shifts Spanish port operations

Nordana shifts Spanish port operations    Nordana will shift its Spanish operations from Valencia to Sagunto.
   This pertains to the regular roll-on/roll-off multipurpose liner service Nordana operates between United States and North Africa and the Mediterranean areas returning via Venezuela, Caribbean Islands, Central America and Mexico to Houston.
   Both Valencia and Sagunto are within the Port of Valencia and Nordana said the 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 expanded over the next two 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 Skanderborg on Jan. 16.