Future Cartagena Association just produced the report "Considerations FERRMED Spain 2", which aims to work closely with authorities in achieving the rail freight corridor by the Spanish Mediterranean coast, and which expressly calls among its recommendations, Murcia that is included in the first phase of this important infrastructure known as FERRMED, whose route through Spain integrity has to unite the French border to the port of Algeciras, thus preventing the first phase culminates in Alicante, where fears that the project dies or delay many years.
The reasons stated about the Future Cartagena report are existing railway track to the region and which would only be adapted, unlike the second stage which includes projected Andalusia where expressly should create a line.
In addition, this report includes Cartagena Future respects such as the layout discurra closest to the Port of Cartagena and its docks, including the future of the Gorguel and advised that runs through the main production centers of the region located Eagles All-in Campo de Cartagena-Mazarrón, and also proposed that the regeneration of Portman Bay is linked to the construction of the port basin of El Gorguel.
An economically viable project
The study reveals that FERRMED Future Cartagena is economically viable because it will not cost to the Administration and, instead, yes there will be economic benefits not only for the company in charge of providing the service, but also for the carrier and the operator.
Similarly, stresses that the route for the Murcia region must flow to where it is advisable in the public interest, without preconceptions or making concessions, or impositions of political expediency.
Finally, Cartagena Future requests of the active forces in the region, to undertake the necessary efforts to not relegated Murcia together with Andalusia, a second phase of construction of the layout of the proposed rail freight as the lobby FERRMED and that once again condemn the Murcia region a historical delay.
Source: Agencias