The business plan, introduced two years ago by the Port Authority of Alicante and Consell, with a total investment of close to 140 million euros between public and private funds until 2024, turned the port into a port. attraction for tech companies and “startups”, which employ between 800 and 1,000 people per day in the business centers located between the cruise terminal facilities and the business center in the Panoramis complex, which will multiply the transformative effect of the docks during 2023 when the new facilities are put into service. between Digital Zone 5 at the pier.
In addition, projects related to traditional port activities, second container terminal, fish farm for raising and exporting fish to Japanclosed ship for public transport and ship moving logistics platform multinational Dachser. On the other hand, the development that should result in the construction of the city’s future major convention center. Accenture, Softek, Navico and Trascom Here are some of the more than 60 companies that have landed in Alicante. As for the Business Center of the former Panoramis entertainment complex, 25,000 square meters of space that has undergone a real revolution in the last twelve months.
Until 2024, the Port Authority has divided its activities into three large groups. The port city action with public investment for the improvement of berths 1 and 2 gives continuity to the private investment project that will take care of berths 4, 6, 8 and 10 corresponding to its surroundings. Sports Navyand forming a pedestrian loop on the inner pier.
The property in question will consist of: Four architectural structures of 1,200 square meters each will simulate port containers on an area of 15,000 m2. It will be the fifth center of the Digital Zone to be added to those located in Ciudad de la Luz.
Consell underlines the importance of this new infrastructure on the basis that the existing dependencies, which house 65 companies, have already shrunk due to the growth of these companies. The new center allows for the expansion of the Digital Zone, located today in Ciudad de la Luz. The driver element of the innovation domain being configured in the port“.
Calculations show they will be working in the new building 550 employees of technology companiessome, besides being notable, have already shown an interest in settling in Alicante.
logistics center
Multinational Dachser has already built what will become the world’s largest logistics hub. port of Alicante. The concession covers an area of 51,364 m2 and is an office building with a surface area of more than 13,000 m2, where an industrial warehouse and an office building will be created, as well as a logistics platform dedicated to goods, sea and road transport. 2.300 m2. The total investment amount planned by the company is 15 million Euros and the concession period is 30 years.
Dascher Iberia invoices 680 million euros per year and 3,000 employees. He is the head of the German group named in Spain and Portugal, whose main activity is to develop freight transport activities both nationally and internationally. German logistics “giant” received port concession to settle in Alicante at the end of 2020, but procedures delayed, crisis Pandemic it was also affected, and now a project with a 24-month implementation period is being reconsidered.
The company plans the subsequent expansion of an additional warehouse of 2,246 m2 on a plot connected with the warehouse. A-31 motorway, Fish Wholesalers’ port road and industrial warehouse. This way, the rest of the surface will be used as a parking lot. loading and unloading trucks in front of the dock, a rolling area, parking for trucks and cars, and an access control point. The idea for the multinational company will open after Easter 2023, between April and May. About one hundred people will work in the complex and will provide provincial coverage, and the goal is to “become the most important national and international transport operator in the province of Alicante, strengthen the existing customer portfolio and provide solutions to the entire industrial sector”. demands according to company sources”.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Ecological Transition has so far approved the project submitted by Alicante Aquacultura for captive breeding in a fish farm in the port of Alicante. 600 tons of fish One year on board a ship that will cover 9,000 square feet on the 11th quay, next to the Marine Fisheries Polytechnic Institute and the new location of MOE amphibious equipment. According to sources from the Port Authority, the aim is to raise the fry and then export them to Japan, where it is the second most consumed and admired fish after bluefin tuna. The company informed the port that the investment will be two million euros. 20 permanent jobs and reclamation will be done in the pools inside the ship. The water will be taken from the sea and subjected to a microfiltration process to remove any residual particles.
The second container terminal of the port, which will be operated by JSV to transport approximately 70,000 containers per year, is also planned for this pier.
Finally, the most fun aspect is the Levante dock. -Ocean Race ground- It will have a new marina for large yachts promoted by the business group managing the Marmarala complex. The placement of the floating platform for the restaurant is close and in 2023 there will be a space for jet skis at the Fish Market.
Mediterranean Corridor
The big issue waiting for the Central Government port of Alicante The connection with the Mediterranean Corridor has not yet been tendered. At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Transport has determined how the connection of the Alicante port with the Mediterranean Corridor will be, and has even allocated a budget of 61 million Euros, which will come from the New Generation Funds that have started to receive. From Brussels to Spain. The Mediterranean Corridor Government Commissioner, Josep Vicen Boira, made the decision in response to a question from Professor Paloma Taltavull during the “Dialogues for the transformation of the Valencian economic model” conference organized by the University of Alicante. Boira stated that to tender the third rail project, the only thing that needs to be resolved is the clearance (size) issue in the Elda tunnel, which will be awarded in the first half of this year.
The port connection is at the expense of an advertised but never delivered tender, and Ministry of Transport It goes without saying or specifying whether the airport will eventually be connected by rail with Alicante and Elche. More than two years ago, the ministry linked the connection to the solution of the complementary work of the Torrellano variant (85m euros), which is also an important project for the removal of suburban train tracks from the first line of the sea.
Works awarded in February 2020. Two years and two months later, the Government recently admitted to MP Joan Baldoví (Compromís) that the alternative still has no project and has not decided whether it will eventually become electrification. Alicante- Murcia is the only train in Spain that continues with diesel trains. Eight hundred entrepreneurs from all over Spain They will meet again, this time in Barcelona, on 17 November to denounce the delay in the work and demand their execution. The conference will be organized by the Valencian Entrepreneurs Association, just a year after meeting in Madrid, after which very little progress was made.