The Generalitat Valenciana, through its purchasing commissioner María José Mira , has changed the mode of transportation to bring medical supplies against Covid-19. Now, with the aim of reducing expenses, it will stop hiring more planes and charter ships in international markets (especially in China) that will arrive at the Port of Valencia in late May and early June.

The option of large ships seeks to obtain maximum transport efficiency. It should be borne in mind that the cost of an airplane such as those that have landed full of masks, gloves, protective goggles or PPE is around one million euros, while in the case of the ship it is reduced to only 50,000 euros .

The only drawback presented by shipping is that it takes about a month to reach the Valencian Community . Hence, planes have been chosen first, which take less than a week, to keep the stock always full while waiting for the merchandise by sea.

At the same time, Valencia has the advantage of being the base of operations of shipping companies such as MSC , the first in freight traffic in the port, which has reorganized its shipping lines to give top priority to the transport of goods from ports in Southeast Asia. . In addition, several Valencian forwarding companies - firms that act as intermediaries between exporters, importers and transport companies - have offices or Asian subsidiaries that can help coordinate shipments .

One of the peculiarities of the material that has been requested by ship is the acquisition of thousands of children's masks (in smaller and more decorated sizes) that will serve to cover the summer months.

This Friday the trucks with the cargo of medical equipment from the sixteenth plane chartered by the Generalitat arrived at the logistics center of Feria Valencia, which landed this past morning at the Barajas airport, from Shanghai.

The plane was carrying 38.2 tons of sanitary material made up of 1,000,000 surgical masks; 1,395,000 gloves; 36,000 goggles and 140,000 gowns.

The total accumulated so far of the 16 flights contracted by the Generalitat within the Silk Road Operation amounts to 567.5 tons , made up of 19.7 million masks; 9.2 million gloves; 1.5 million EPI monkeys; 611,600 protective glasses; 20,000 thermometers and 190,000 robes.

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