Work is to start on the improvement of Valencia Port for the Americas Cup is to begin next month, according to Jose Salinas, the director general of the consortium Valencia 2007.

This was decided at the first meeting of the Consortium, which also included Rita Barbera, the Mayoress of Valencia, the Madrid Conseller for health, and Manuel Lamela, the vice president of the Consortium as well as Economy Conseller Gerardo Camps.

The construction of a canal to the sea that will join the regatta site, the improvement of the interior parts of the port and the final improvements on the team bases all form part of this first wave of works.

Some of these are to be finished by next summer, in time for the first of the 'pre-regattas'.