The 1st ValenciaportPCS Shippers’ Conference was held with the aim of listening to import/export companies, in order to improve the digital services offered by the technological platform – ValenciaportPCS digital platform.
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ValenciaportPCS has shown itself to be an effective and efficient tool that saves costs and time for all companies linked to the port community.
Valenciaport adds new actors to its commitment to the digitalisation of the logistics value chain
Valenciaport adds new actors to its commitment to the digitalisation of the logistics value chain: the companies responsible for the generation of cargo.
This incorporation completes the commitment acquired in Madrid by the President, Aurelio Martínez, and by the Director of the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), Francesc Sánchez, last November, during the presentation of Valenciaport in the Chamber of Commerce.
1st ValenciaportPCS Shippers Conference
As a result of that presentation, the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) has held the 1st ValenciaportPCS Shippers Conference with the aim of actively listening to import/export companies, in order to improve the digital services offered to this sector that operates in the València, Sagunto and Gandia port areas, through the PCS platform.
Throughout the day, which was attended by Alexandre Sánchez, the Head of PCS Systems at the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), and Nuria Lacaci, General Secretary of the Spanish Shippers’ Association, several practical group workshops were held to work, among all the parties involved, to expose problems and answers to discover and discuss the needs that shippers have daily.
Define possible solutions within the PCS
The aim was to jointly define possible solutions within the PCS to make their daily operations more efficient.
Alexandre Sánchez, the Head of PCS Systems at the Port Authority of Valencia (PAV), highlighted the importance of involving shippers in the digital platform, a tool that enables cost and time savings for all companies linked to the port community.
Bring shippers closer to the ValenciaportPCS tool
What we intend with this conference is to bring shippers closer to the ValenciaportPCS tool"
Alexandre Sánchez stated, “What we intend with this conference is to bring shippers closer to the ValenciaportPCS tool, so that they can get to know its functionalities such as the traceability, cargo booking and transport modules.”
Alexandre Sánchez adds, “These functions will allow them to improve their day-to-day operations by making goods and containers pass through the port more quickly and efficiently and position their products more competitively in international markets.”
Integrate the group into PAV’s technological platform
The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) has been working for months with the Spanish Shippers’ Association, in order to integrate this group into its technological platform. This conference is part of this process to adapt the needs of all the actors that form part of this port community.
In this regard, the Head of PCS Systems, Alexandre Sánchez, emphasised that “This is the first time that we have held this workshop with import/export companies with the aim of listening to them, finding out their needs, knowing what they require and providing them with what they need to continue strengthening and improving the digital transformation to favour the work of the companies that operate in our ports.”
Cargo companies join ValenciaportPCS
The cargo companies thus join ValenciaportPCS, one of the first technological platforms or Port Community Systems in the world.
This tool is used by nearly 1,100 companies and public bodies operating in the ports of Valencia, Sagunto and Gandia. Every day it manages more than 300,000 messages exchanged.