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The Logistics Activities Area (ZAL) of Cartagena has continued this morning with the second meeting to advance in the creation of this infrastructure.
The mayor of Cartagena, José López, the Minister of Development and Infrastructures, Pedro Rivera, the Minister of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, Juán Hernández, participated in the meeting, which took place in the Palacio de Aguirre. Such as the president of the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla, and the business, industrial and transport entities of the city.
The meeting discussed the planning of the work to be carried out by the consultant company 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 and has a budget of just over 100,000 euros.
The mayor of Cartagena has indicated the importance of this meeting that serves to advance in the creation of a "necessary and viable" infrastructure.
Some words from a 2003 State Land Entity (SEPES) report, which already indicated that "Cartagena presents optimum conditions for the four modes of transport in the Region", the need for a ZAL to develop the full commercial potential And logistic activities of the port of Cartagena, and this morning the first mayor became his own.
López emphasized the importance of this meeting and requested that it be soon a reality.
To this end, the city council is already taking steps to achieve land for the ZAL through a debt of SEPES with the city council of just over four and a half million euros, which the council wants to be effective through the Assignment of land by the state body.
The land would be transferred so that the center of storage of logistic activities of Los Camachos is a reality.
For his part, the Minister of Development and Infrastructure, 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 port city".
A statement signed by the Minister of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, which stated that "for the government is a priority the promotion of the great infrastructure that support and make economic growth as it is."
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.
A market study will be carried out in the region of Cartagena, where logistics chains and transport flows will be analyzed to make future projections of goods 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.
COMPATIBILITY OF ZAL DE MURCIA AND LA CARTAGENA
Asked by the media about the statements of some businessmen in Cartagena requesting the halt of the Murcia ZAL, Hernández has indicated that it is acting according to needs, with technical reports and based on the requests of the region's businessmen, And that there is no technical report justifying the paralysis of the area of ​​logistics activities in Murcia.
"There has always been talk of compatibility with the power of the port of Cartagena and we also have the most important power, which can be a lever of growth, for the capture of economic flows of southern Andalusia and Castilla la Mancha" has indicated The counselor.
For his part, José López has said regarding this subject that refers to the study of the SEPES of the year 2003 that justifies the ZAL of Cartagena in concurrence with the transport node of Murcia.
It has also highlighted the fact that there is no concurrence of two ZAL so close in any province of the Mediterranean Arc.
To questions of the journalists the mayor has also spoken of the matter of the municipal landfill.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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