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Pilar Barreiro and a large group of politicians and businessmen in the region, accompanying the president Valcárcel the headquarters of the European Parliament to support the rail freight Ferrmed, which is the union of all European ports to North Africa
The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, Wednesday accompanied a delegation of 32 representatives autonomous moving the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels to support the presentation of Ferrmed, nonprofit organization created to promote the construction of major railway Goods.
In his speech, Pilar Barreiro has been presented as the mayor of a southeastern Spanish city with three thousand years of history and home to the port of the Region of Murcia.
Barreiro pointed out that Cartagena was born near the port and, from antiquity, has been a place of confluence of roads driven on the land and the roads that are traveled by sea.
The city was made of large fleets and were enrolled in the first major European communications network, which Rome, with a colossal effort, he managed to draw to unite the Mediterranean ports of the Iberian Peninsula.
Guided by his famous pragmatism, the Romans devised a route that significantly overlaps with the proposal we are defending.
Each civilization used the best technology to harness the enormous benefits that have ports for the relocation of people and goods, has argued the mayor.
Affirming that the XXI century Europe should not be less, Barreiro explained that for too long we have been able to gauge properly the opportunities that the railroad offered to multiply the commercial strength of our cities, our regions and our countries. We trust the road most of the land transport of goods.
More and more products through Europe on the road.
They do clearly time and cost improvement.
We make the goods arriving by ship are more expensive as they travel on our roads.
We pay more for what we import and our products have left the continent in a much less competitive than we could achieve.
For the mayor FERRMED is an opportunity that will reverse this trend with a strategic proposal that could radically transform the way transport is understood today in western Europe.
This proposal aims to strengthen the railway as an efficient, fast and environmentally sustainable for the exchange of goods.
Barreiro added that the integration of Cartagena on this axis will allow the historic port in the region of Murcia has even more future than past.
To do so, according to the mayor, the Region of Murcia has to work for generating the port is competitive with the logistics areas to ensure an immediate intermodality.
FERRMED option also multiplied, according to Barreiro, an interconnected set of all ports that will prepare them to collect maritime traffic, generate new ones and, more importantly, put us in a position of advantage in the way of the highway the sea that have their origin or destination in America and Asia.
The mayor has done ensuring that the project of uniting Stockholm Algeciras with a great line of merchandise is so transformative and ambitious we can equate the dream that had the creators of the first communications network on the continent and is a great opportunity to do more and better Europe.
In the meeting today in Brussels has also intervened President of the Autonomous Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, as vice president to turn the European Committee of the Regions.
His words were like those of the mayor, Ferrmed support to get the final impetus leading to the Mediterranean corridor of goods to be a priority project of the European Union.
Besides the President of the Autonomous Region and the Mayor of Cartagena, a regional delegation also joined including the Regional Assembly President Francisco Celdran, and regional and national deputies, the mayors of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, Puerto Lumbreras Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and Murcia, Michelangelo House and the Minister of Public Works, José Ballesta, and other political and business representatives in the region.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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