Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente, Who visited this Thursday? port of valencia With the president of the Generalitat, Carlos MazónMayor, María José Catalá, and the head of the Port Authority, Mar Chaohas confirmed that the Spanish Government will approve the construction project of the new northern container terminal, which will be operated by the multinational TiL-MSC. The expected visit of the Central Executive leader thus clears the administrative blockage of a project conceived two decades ago, which only needs to give the green light from the Council of Ministers for its tender and award next Tuesday.
Puente underlined that the first port in the Mediterranean is “a project that has been worked on for a long time.” “This is an ecological project,” he assures, as environmental conditions have been improved. The minister added that the new facility will be self-sufficient in terms of clean energy. “We must change from 93 percent of containers entering by truck. The MSC rail terminal will be 100 percent sustainable. It will be an investment that cannot wait any longer,” he added.
Reactions
HE Generalitat President Carlos Mazon He thanked Minister Puente for removing the obstacle to the process of expanding the port of Valencia. “This meant the recognition of the port and the economic community of the Valencian Community,” stressed Mazón, who also favored public-private cooperation and the “immediacy” of the administrative process.
A.Mayor of Valencia María José Catalá, thanked the minister for his visit for supporting the port, which attracts 50% of the GDP of the Valencian Community. Catalá took advantage of his intervention to request from the minister the promotion of the Mediterranean corridor and the transit tunnel.
Valencian officials as well as businessmen have been waiting for months for Pedro Sánchez’s manager to express his support for the expansion of port facilities to the north. Leaders of the main employers’ organizations, such as the president of CEV, traveled to the port. Salvador NavarroIn addition to the Chamber of Commerce, José Vicente Morata.
Investment budgets
At the last board of directors of the Valencia Port Authority, the proposal to update the project prices was approved, increasing this figure from 542,694,149.17 Euros budgeted at the end of last year. 660,387,997.83 euros. This was a very important step to continue moving forward in processing jobs. Meanwhile, shipping company MSC plans to increase its investment from 1,100 to 1,600 million to undertake the implementation of the container terminal, which will have an area of approximately 136 million hectares and a capacity of 5 million containers (in TEU, twenty combined). feet or six meters long).
protests
Minister Puente’s announcement did not go unnoticed City-Port CommissionA group of neighbors and environmental associations gathered hundreds of people in front of the Clock building at the Valencia maritime site this morning to express their opposition to the port expansion plan.