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| The meeting laid the foundations for a collaboration that could be fruitful for both parties in the coming years | Arturo Andreu, dean of the Official College of Journalists of the Region of Murcia, has met at the headquarters of the Cartagena Port Authority with the president of said institution, Yolanda Muñoz.
The dean was accompanied by the vice-deans Dámaris Ojeda and Rubén Juan Serna, as well as the director of the Fundación Asociación de la Prensa, Juan Antonio De Heras.
At this meeting, the foundations have been laid for a collaboration that may be very fruitful for both institutions in the coming years. The Official College of Journalists, successor and heir to the centennial Press Association, which for more than a century has provided relevant services to Murcians, is committed, together with the Foundation, to contribute to promoting those aspects that, cultural, social or economically, they can benefit not only the collegiate journalists, whom they represent, but all those who live in the Region of Murcia. In this sense, the Port of Cartagena is called to be not only one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean, but also one of the fundamental axes on which, without a doubt, the economic activity of the Region will revolve during the 21st century.
In fact, the Port of Cartagena is already the main importing port in Spain, since one in every ten tons of any merchandise that has entered Spanish ports throughout the past year 2019 has done so through Cartagena.
It is also the second port of Spain in foreign trade, and generates more than 2 percent of regional employment, a rate that could triple if the El Gorguel container terminal is finally built.
It is also the eighth port of call in Spain and one of the fifty most important in the world. The reality of the Port of Cartagena being such, one of the concerns of the president of the Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, is the difficulty found in disseminating such data beyond the borders of Cartagena and making all Murcians aware that the Port is something of the entire Region, since its economic importance affects multiple activities located in any point of the regional geography.
Furthermore, when the more than fifty projects envisaged in the Immediate Action Plan, endowed with 200 million euros, have been carried out and when the Mediterranean Corridor reaches Cartagena, the Port will certainly extend its influence to the regions.
bordering, with what this may be of benefit to the regional economy of Murcia as a whole. Along these lines, they spoke of framing the future collaboration between the Cartagena Port Authority and the Official College of Journalists of the Region of Murcia and the Press Association Foundation, especially —among other activities that both parties may agree on— in trying to give to know throughout the Region the current reality of the Port and what it already means for the regional economy and will mean in the coming years.
In short, in making the Port of Cartagena known in its full reality by all Murcians, not only by those who live in Cartagena and its region.
Source: Agencias
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