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The Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) of Cartagena begins its journey with the beginning of the work for the preparation of the Technical and Economic Feasibility Study of this logistics infrastructure.
This way it has moved today in the meeting of the Work Table of the ZAL of Cartagena, presided by the Departments of Fomento and Infrastructures and of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, and in which the Cartagena City Council, the Port Authority and The business, industrial and transport entities of the city.
The meeting discussed the planning of the work to be carried out by the consulting firm responsible for drafting the ZAL Feasibility Study, which will consist of the implementation of six stages to determine the characteristics, location and feasibility analysis of the logistics infrastructure.
The study will have a writing period of six months.
The Minister of Fomento e Infraestructuras, Pedro Rivera, stressed that "this is an important step for the development and implementation of the ZAL Cartagena, which reflects the support of the regional government in this project that will increase the logistics activity of the city Port ".
Pedro Rivera stressed that "the ZAL Cartagena is a project that combines perfectly with the one that is projected in Murcia, with different and complementary purposes that will allow the Region of Murcia to continue growing with new investments and positive data in employment generation and wealth ".
In this regard, he recalled that the two ZALs "have the backing of the Central Government and of Europe as they are both included in the Trans-European Transport Network in order to achieve a single European transport area with a competitive and sustainable policy."
The Minister of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, Juan Hernández, said that it is "a public-private project so that in the future we will have a large business logistics platform in Cartagena, which will add to the attractions for the Economic and business development for the region, and attract national and international investors, "noting that Cartagena has" large companies and a large port infrastructure, where an increasingly important volume of freight traffic is handled, which is undoubtedly An asset of the first order to place the Region as an industrial logistics reference in the Mediterranean. "
Therefore, he expressed his satisfaction with this new step for the development of an area of ​​logistics activities "aimed at promoting and increasing the existence of increasingly competitive companies in the Region."
Initially, the current situation of the area of ​​action from the territorial, urban, socioeconomic and environmental point of view will be studied, as well as the analysis of linear, nodal infrastructures, activity and supply and demand.
During the next few weeks, interviews will be conducted with companies potentially interested in establishing themselves in Cartagena's ZAL, in order to identify their specific needs, which will be the basis for determining the functional design of the project and defining the phases of its development.
The logistics market study of the region of Cartagena will be developed, where logistics chains and transport flows will be analyzed to make future projections of merchandise traffic.
Once completed this part will be obtained the traffic that can capture the railroad and the existing demand of logistic soil.
In the following phases, the economic and financial viability of the infrastructure will be analyzed and the promotion and management model of the Cartagena ZAR will be designed.
Source: CARM
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