Sagunto council pushes port authority to open North Dock and finish Pantalán pier
In a near-unanimous vote, Sagunto's July plenary ordered the Port Authority of Valencia to honour without further delay the 2019 agreement on the North Dock and the Pantalán pier.
Seven years of unmet commitments prompted the full council — PSOE, PP, Vox, Compromís per Sagunt and EU-Unides Podem backing the motion; only Iniciativa Porteña abstaining — to direct the port authority to deliver on three long-overdue obligations: open the North Dock to residents, complete the Pantalán's sea section, and launch the promised environmental works along the southern waterfront.
The motion, launched by Compromís and shaped by PSOE amendments, catalogued the accumulated damage to the Pantalán: a 2019 DANA storm brought down its first span, and storm Gloria in 2020 wiped out two more sections, leaving nine million euros of restoration stuck in limbo. Adding urgency, the APV — a body under Spain's national ports agency Puertos del Estado, overseeing the ports of Valencia, Sagunto and Gandía — unveiled a new delimitation plan in November 2025 that, per the council's technical assessment, strips roughly 100,000 m² from the urban-integration zone and adds over 119,000 m² of commercial port land, a move the council labels a unilateral breach. The plenary also requested a compliance audit from Puertos del Estado and called on the Transport Ministry to step in. According to Sagunto City Council.