Ship chandlers & ship supply at Valencia ESVLC

The Port Authority of Valencia runs Valencia, Sagunto and Gandia. In 2025 the three ports handled 80.7 million tonnes and a record 5,662,661 TEU (+3.4%), with 7,202 vessel calls totalling 300.5 million GT. The Port of Valencia alone handled 72.8 million tonnes, 5,603,223 TEU and 5,991 ships; cruise passengers across the authority numbered 799,050.^[1,2]

—Container terminals: CSP Iberian Valencia Terminal (2,310 m of quay, 15.5 m draft, 21 STS cranes), MSC Terminal Valencia (770 m, 15.9 m) and APM Terminals Valencia, whose 600 m of the Levante quay was dredged to 17 m from 2022 for ships up to 400 m LOA and 16 m draft.^[3,4,5]

—North terminal: the €592 million construction contract for the new north container terminal, a 50-year concession to Terminal Investment Ltd (MSC group), was awarded in July 2024; the plan is 137 ha and 1,970 m of quay, and works started from the sea side with dredging in late 2024.^[6]

—Supplies to ships are a traffic line of their own: 568,922 tonnes at the Port of Valencia in 2025.^[1]

Bunkering is a licensed port service. The port authority’s June 2026 list of service providers licenses Mureloil to supply fuel by tanker vessel or barge in all its ports, alongside a number of tank-truck licence holders, and lists lubricant suppliers by truck, including one licensed for scrubber chemical additives.^[7]

—LNG: Peninsula holds an LNG licence by tanker vessel or barge in all APV ports to 2032, and ESK and Molgas supply LNG by truck. In May 2026 the port authority’s board approved six-year LNG supply authorisations by tanker vessel for Shell Western LNG and Axpo Iberia.^[7,8]

—First operations: Shell’s first LNG bunkering at Valencia, in July 2026, took place just outside the port, with the bunker vessel Alice Cosulich supplying MSC Sabrina; Peninsula made the first LNG bunkering at Sagunto in September 2026.^[9,10]

—Sulphur: the Mediterranean has been a MARPOL Annex VI SOx Emission Control Area since 1 May 2025 (0.10% sulphur), and EU law limits ships at berth to 0.10% unless alongside for under two hours or on shore power. A shore-power project co-financed by the EU is planned for the APM, CSP and Valencia Terminal Europa terminals.^[11,12,13]

—Pilotage is compulsory for ships over 500 GT; anchoring manoeuvres are not compulsory unless decided case by case. Exempt are port-authority craft, vessels on port works and vessels supplying or servicing other ships, unless the Harbour Master (Capitanía Marítima) decides otherwise (BOE, November 2021).^[14]

—Pilots are requested at least 40 minutes ahead and board around 39°25.188′N 000°15.903′W; the service keeps 14 pilots and three pilot boats, with response in 30 minutes for pilots in port. The licence holder is Prácticos de Valencia. The 2026 maximum pilotage tariff rose 2.108% from 15 January 2026.^[14,7,15]

—Every ship berthed, anchored or underway in Valencia port waters keeps a listening watch on VHF 16; the port authority’s emergency control centre is manned 24/7.^[16]

—Licensed providers: Remolcadores Boluda (towage), Amarradores del Puerto de Valencia (mooring) and several launch-service operators.^[7]

—MARPOL waste: reception for Annexes I, IV, V and VI runs 24 hours all year, requested from the licensed provider directly or through the agent via the port authority’s electronic system. Collection is alongside by lorry or tanker — barge collection is currently not available — and delivery receipts are free.^[17]

—Fixed fee: every call pays the port authority’s MARPOL tariff (Article 132 of the Spanish ports law), at most once every 7 days, whether or not waste is landed; it covers Annex I and V waste landed by land means in the first 7 days and is set by GT band, plus a per-person element for passenger ships. Sewage and Annex VI waste are paid to the provider directly — for example €45/m³ for Annex IV and €46/m³ for Annex V beyond the fee (minimum 4 m³).^[17]

—Fresh water and provisioning are licensed port services too: a licensed provider supplies drinking water to ships in the Port of Valencia, and ship provisioning has its own licence list — check validity, since some entries on the June 2026 list have expired.^[7]

—Provisions, technical stores, spares and deliveries: post a requirement and suppliers serving Valencia answer with sealed bids; suppliers never see the vessel’s name until award. If you supply ships in Valencia, activate Valencia. Up the coast, see the Barcelona guide.