CEV Alicante’s board of directors reaffirmed today the participation of Josep Vicen Boira Maiques, Government Commissioner for the Mediterranean Corridor. Central Executive commitment with this infrastructure in the province of Alicante. Boira highlighted initiatives such as a standard gauge rail link to Miguel Hernández airport or high-speed connections with Murcia and Valencia. In this context, it evaluated four AVE stations owned by the province of Alicante. places it as the province with the highest speed connections in the entire country, and called to take advantage of it. However, it did not come to set deadlines for different projects.
The Commissioner demonstrated his commitment to the Mediterranean Freight Corridor and assured that “we will work to include Alicante and its port on this key export route” through a clear roadmap of projects such as the mixed gauge rail link. The port of Alicante, the mixed gauge adaptation of the Alicante-La Encina section or the adaptation of the gauges of the Elche and Elda tunnels are “called to make the city and province of Alicante a strong link in the Corridor European Mediterranean”.
Boira enabled the CEV Alicante board of directors to participate in the Corridor vision as follows: European structural axis It connects the eastern part of the continent with the Mediterranean and reaches Ukraine. And this may also be linked to the economic and social development of North Africa. In this sense, it announced the proposed improvements by the Office of the Mediterranean Corridor for the revision of European Regulation 1315/2013, which defines the European corridors, which includes projects currently being implemented in Brussels and ongoing projects in Alicante.
Finally, and with reference to the infrastructure need in the province, in the document “Horizon Alicante 2030Presented by CEV Alicante and Cámara Alicante, Boira guaranteed to be “compatible”. We are working on the execution of the Mediterranean Corridor, including access to the Port of Alicante, the Alicante-Valencia AVE, the Torrellano rail variant and the Orihuela AVE Station, and our future work includes the rail junction. Goods in the Alicante/Elche area, Alicante Norte Station, AVE connection with nearby Elche stations and new southern Alicante rail access”.
CEV Alicante chairman Joaquín Pérez thanked the commissioner for his statements and said: demanded more speed so that Alicante’s productive sectors can benefit from better connectivity and thus gain competitiveness.