Open the Port to the province to increase goods traffic. This is one of the big goals set by the new president of the Alicante Port Authority, Luis Rodríguez, as he emphasized at the opening ceremony held on December 15 in front of a large number of commercial and corporate representatives. The president of the Federation of Metal Entrepreneurs of the Province of Alicante (Fempa) until a few weeks ago, he is fully aware of the different productive sectors of this region and wants to exploit the potential of these sectors to strengthen port activities. He leaves his products. A challenge that is not small at all and will be as necessary as he claims, To accelerate the connection of the area with the Mediterranean Corridor.
But that’s not the only challenge Rodríguez has set for himself. Another strong impact will be to encourage more business and professional management.Ships as a demonstration center for artificial intelligence to be located in Old Amaro, with the desire to address digitalization as well as energy conversion projects through various initiatives involving the Department of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism. And without forgetting all these, we will continue to work in an area that will contribute to the Port’s contribution to provincial tourism with the arrival of cruise ships.
All these actions will be included in a strategic plan that will begin to be promoted by the province’s productive sectors, business organizations and municipalities in the coming months. And always with the support of the Generalitat, president Carlos Mazón was responsible for emphasizing this as president, stating at Rodríguez’s inauguration: They will be the same demanding in the Port of Alicante as in the Port of Valencia.
And just a day before Luis Rodríguez took office, Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility Óscar Puente announced long-awaited news by the Port Authority of Valencia (APV): The Spanish Government has promised to approve, as it were, at the next Council of Ministers meeting (19 December), Authorization of a public tender process for the construction of the new container terminal in the northern expansion at a cost of just over 660 million euros.
The massive infrastructure rejected by Pedro Sánchez’s Managing partners Sumar-Compromís and Podemos, as well as the Port of Comissió Ciutat (neighborhood associations and environmental groups), begins a new phase in the implementation project aimed at meeting the traffic needs of containers. from the Port of Valencia in the coming years. The terminal will be operated by the multinational TiL-MSC. Plans to invest around 1.6 billion eurosThe facility, which will have the capacity to accommodate 5 million TEUs (twenty-foot or six-meter long container units) on an area of 136 hectares, can become operational within five years in its first phase.
Cox Group stays in Abengoa and plans to rack up $3bn invoices
The biggest operation carried out by a businessman from Alicante. Enrique Riquelme, chairman of the Cox Group, which specializes in renewable energies, achieved this last April when he took over the insolvent assets of the Sevillian multinational engineering company Abengoa. This was after a bid of 564 million euros was submitted, beating bids from Grupo Urbas, American fund Terramar and Portuguese Resource Project Management. The proposal has received the approval of the court responsible for processing the competition, which, among other reasons, maintains 9,500 jobs. This was only the first step, considering that just two months later another 1,700 people joined Abengoa in a bid to restart paralyzed projects. From now on renamed Coxabengoa, the company’s strategic plan includes reaching a turnover of 3,000 million in 2027 and having a greater presence in the Valencian Community.