The Universitat de València’s Government Council granted the extraordinary PhD award corresponding to the 2020-2021 academic year to Julián Martínez Moya for his doctoral thesis La competitividad portuaria: el papel de las autoridades portuarias y de la conectividad en la elección de puerto, presented within the doctorado en Economía Internacional y Turismo’s framework and directed by Professor and Doctor María Feo Valero, researcher of the Institute of International Economics.