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| The Minister of Business, Industry and Spokesperson and the Minister of Development and Infrastructure have met today with all the agents involved | The regional government continues to promote the development of the Cartagena Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) with the celebration today of the ZAL Table, chaired by the Minister of Development and Infrastructure, José Ramón Díez de Revenga, and in which they participated, in addition to the Minister of Business, Industry and Spokesperson, Ana Martínez Vidal, the Mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the president of the Cartagena Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, as well as representatives of the Public Land Business Entity (Sepes) , COEC, Chamber of Commerce and other agents involved. Among the measures addressed in the Roundtable, he highlighted the commitment to maintain, in the next budget project of the Development Institute (Info) for 2021, a multi-year allocation of two million euros that allows initiating the procedures aimed at implementing the integrated center of transport and the free warehouse in the Polígono de Los Camachos. The counselor Ana Martínez Vidal assured that "since the beginning of the legislature the Info has stood out for its great involvement and dedication in this project.

Until we got here we have held several meetings by the regional Executive, both with the Port Authority and with the City Council Cartagena to unblock the situation.

" The drafting of the project, a step prior to bidding for the works, will begin once the land is acquired by the Port Authority and transferred to Info.

This commitment, assumed by the President of the Port Authority, was announced by the President, Fernando López Miras, in the Regional Assembly. Likewise, Martínez Vidal reaffirmed once again the support and willingness of the regional government to work together with the companies and entrepreneurs of Cartagena and its region so that the ZAL becomes a reality as soon as possible, guaranteeing the provision of the service in its location.

current while the works last. For its part, the Port Authority reiterated its intention to acquire the nearly 300,000 m2 of land, owned by Sepes, and make it available to the regional Executive in order to start working on this vital infrastructure for the region's economy. The regional government insists on the need to connect the ZAL with the Mediterranean Corridor and the container port, projects not included in the General State Budgets, for which it asks the State Secretariat for Infrastructure for a real involvement to implement the intermodal terminal A necessary step for the ZAL to fulfill its true objective and to become a strategic project for the industrial and business development of the Region.

Source: CARM