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The Regional Government, through the Ministry of Development and Infrastructure and Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, has created a working table of the Logistics Activities Area (ZAL) of Cartagena in which the City Council, the Port Authority of Cartagena and the business, industrial and transport entities of the city.

The working table, which has been constituted today, is a collaborative and cooperative body of all public administrations, social agents and business entities of Cartagena, to coordinate the planning of the strategy and the development of the projects that make the ZAL a reality In Cartagena as a logistics node of the first level.

The Minister of Development and Infrastructure, Pedro Rivera, stressed that "today is a decisive step for the development of the ZAL Cartagena, a key part of the strategy of the regional government to increase modernization and competitiveness, along with other major infrastructure such as Arrival of the AVE and its connection to the Mediterranean Corridor, which will have a multiplier effect of investments ".

Pedro Rivera reiterated the "strong commitment to the ZAL of Cartagena," which "will be an effective lever for the export of port goods and the traditional industrial and horticultural production of the region of Cartagena and consolidate the city as a logistic enclave First-class intermodal transport of the Region, with a national strategic character thanks to the port and integration into the trans-European transport network ".

The Minister of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, Juan Hernández, said that Cartagena "is a pole of economic and industrial activity fundamental in the Region of Murcia" and added that "large companies, especially the industrial sector, are based in Cartagena , Where, in addition, we have the port, which is an increasingly important platform for freight traffic. "

Hernández considered it "fundamental" to develop an area of ​​logistical activities "to increase the competitiveness of the large companies installed in the region of Cartagena and that all merchandise traffic can take advantage of the efficiency in transportation, in the management of stock.

Also, the President of the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla, has been asked to formulate the request for European funds corresponding to the CEF call for Conectar Europa, in order to finance the projects related to the ZAL of Cartagena.

Work table

The working table of the ZAL of Cartagena will inform of the technical, economic and financial procedures necessary for the development and will carry out the proposals of the operability and the construction by phases of the intermodal terminal and of the other facilities of the ZAL.

Likewise, it will promote and promote the interest of the companies to be installed in this ZAL and propose the request of European financing funds that complement the public-private collaboration and make viable the action.

The table is made up of the Councils of Development and Economic Development, the Business Public Entity of Land (SEPES), the Cartagena City Council, the Port Authority of Cartagena, the Confederation of Business Organizations of Cartagena (COEC), the Chamber of Commerce of Cartagena, the Regional Federation of Business Transport Organizations (Froet), the Association of maritime entrepreneurs of Cartagena and the Los Camachos Industrial Estate.

Source: CARM