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"The connection with Cartagena is of vital and absolute importance, not only because the Escombreras Valley is the productive lung of the Region of Murcia, but also because it is located there the Port of Cartagena, one of the four main ports of Spain by volume the first port of the country in bulk traffic and among the top ten at the national level in the cruise sector, "said Miguel Garaulet,

The deputy of the Parliamentary Group Citizens, Miguel Garaulet, will ask in the Congress of Deputies for the terms and investment for the Murcia-Cartagena section in the Mediterranean Corridor.

As has been recently published in various media, the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF), under the Ministry of Public Works, has already awarded the drafting of construction projects for the Mediterranean Corridor in the section Nonduermas-Sangonera-Lorca and Lorca-Pulpí, and three more sections in Almeria, leaving outside Cartagena.

According to the national deputy of the orange formation "the connection with Cartagena is of vital and absolute importance, not only because the Valley of Escombreras is the productive lung of the Region of Murcia, but also because it is situated there the Port of Cartagena, one of the four main ports of Spain by volume of goods, the country's first port of bulk traffic and the top ten in the cruise industry nationwide.

In addition, "the magnitude of the agricultural sector of the Cartagena Field and of Services makes Cartagena an inescapable point in the future Mediterranean Corridor," said Garaulet, who considers it "incomprehensible that, to this day, the city has not been including in the short or medium term in the Mediterranean Corridor and we believe that without further delay all possible actions must be taken in order to establish as soon as possible the deadlines for the implementation of the Cartagena section.

For his part, the regional deputy of Citizens, Juan José Molina, today said that "the way the Government of Murcia is acting, in collusion with the central Government in terms of everything that concerns the works of the AVE and the Corredor Mediterráneo produces embarrassment and embarrassment, of course we are not willing to allow this to continue and, to the extent of our possibilities, we will fight for Cartagena to be taken into account in these infrastructures, it is not a receipt to plan this connection without one of the most important cities of the Mediterranean and without the most powerful industrial pole of the Region of Murcia.

"We will demand it here, in Madrid and in Europe, where it is needed," says Molina.

The Citizens spokesman in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, thanked the support and commitment acquired by his party at national and regional level and called for unity and collaboration "in Cartagena we are accustomed to fighting hard for infrastructure and for the investment we deserve, no one has ever given us anything, and for the arrival of the AVE and our inclusion in the Mediterranean Corridor is a reality we have to make a common front, not only between our parliamentary bodies but also with the communities of Andalusia and Valencia, with the rest of the political formations, with the businessmen, with the unions and be a single voice to be heard loud and clear throughout Spain.

Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena