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The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, has been pleased with the decision announced today by the European Commission to include Cartagena on the Mediterranean Corridor rail, ensuring that the city has now entered the major European networks for rail transport.

Will be from the beginning and will be forever.

This decision, according to the mayor, will allow the Port of Cartagena to become one of the main points of exchange of goods on the continent and opens a new horizon of opportunities for our businesses and economic development of our town and our region.

For Barreiro, the network that is configured with this decision puts a great Cartagena railway line that will cross Europe to Hamburg and connect with the most modern railway large centers of production and consumption in Europe. Our peninsula is a strategic point the crossroads of routes that carry goods by sea between Asia, Europe and America.

Bring to Cartagena a modern railway network will enable our port have a starring role in the large international market, added the mayor.

Barreiro has also emphasized the fact that this project has received support from the institutions of the city, the Mediterranean region and the Spanish and the unit has helped to convince the European authorities of the importance of this infrastructure has to our future.

In the words of Pilar Barreiro, Cartagena has contributed to this unit with the commendable work done since the Port Authority, the Chamber of Commerce and the COECC, trade unions and also with the strong and unanimous support of all political groups that make up the municipal corporation , and that union has also helped to set out clearly the advantages of this design has rail for economic activity in Europe.

For the first municipal authority, the unity of all will also be required from now to defend and implement investments and projects that are essential to realize all the possibilities presented here. It is, therefore, much work ahead, but now we have cleared the path and depends more on us that our objectives take shape, the mayor concluded.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena