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| Yolanda Muñoz considers that Corredor, ZAL of Cartagena and a new container terminal are the key elements for the growth of the Port | The president of the Cartagena Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, attended the business meeting on the Mediterranean Corridor, held in Valencia, accompanied by the general director, Fermín Rol, and where the president of CROEM and the president of COEC were also present. Yolanda Muñoz has highlighted the effort made by the Port Authority to connect the port to this infrastructure, "in recent years we have significantly increased the budget allocation aimed at having a railway line from the docks to its connection with the Corridor, mainly in the facilities inside the Escombreras dock ".

For a few months, the port has had 450 and 750 useful meters in the docks dedicated to bulk, and has participated through the land accessibility fund - the financing of the Camarillas railway variant, with an investment of about 62 million euros.

euros, an amount that reflects the importance of the intermodal connection for the Port of Cartagena, with the railway as the protagonist. During the event, an infrastructure check was carried out by the Quiero Corredor Movement, where the progress of the works has been assessed although they are not going as quickly as they would like due to the delays in the Antequera-Algeciras section, the lack of date for the Lorca-Pulpí section, the pending works of Beniel-Murcia, and the Murcia-Cartagena connection, which has no date. "It is a very necessary infrastructure for the port, the adaptation of the different sections of the Mediterranean Corridor to the international standard gauge, with different solutions (exclusive routes, mixed gauge) and other types of actions, such as variants to some municipalities or burying sections or stations, which can also influence the exploitation of services with origin or destination in the port.

An exporting region like ours needs to have intermodal transport and complementary to that of the highway, cheaper and more sustainable, "said the president. The port's rail demand forecast focuses on solid and liquid bulks.

It is estimated that liquid bulk could double its transport by rail, from the 165,000 tons currently used by train to 320,000 tons in the coming years.

Fundamentally it would be liquefied petroleum gases such as butane, as well as ethanol and lubricating oils. In the case of forecasts of demand for solid bulks, it would correspond to clinker and cereals, starting to operate in the Escombreras dock when the new railway access and internal network of said dock are put into service.

Specifically, the traffic forecast is that 280,000 tons can be handled per year in 2030 (currently this traffic is insignificant). "Intermodality will play a key role in railway development linked to the port, in fact there are two relevant markets where intermodality can play in our favor, with the support of the Cartagena ZAL and a new container terminal", underlined the Chairwoman.

Source: Agencias