Spain to become major logistics platform for southern Europe and northern Africa
The Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and
Housing, Rafael Catalá, said that, “Spain aims to become the major
logistics platform for southern Europe and northern Africa, serving the
global east-west trade routes, as well as the emerging north-south.”
To achieve this goal, which is part of the Logistics Strategy,
Spain can offer “its geostrategic position and its credentials in
infrastructure and transportation systems,” stressed Catalá.
The official also said that Spain has the largest motorway network
in Europe and the world’s fifth best rail infrastructure, as well as the
second most extended high-speed network in the world and a port system
characterised by its excellent management and results.
According to the Ministry of Development, the logistics strategy
that aims to turn Spain into “an international logistics platform of the
highest order, connecting Europe, America, Africa and Asia,” will
require an investment of around 8,000 million Euro.
The project could be completed by 2024, providing the Iberian
country with “the most favourable conditions, both infrastructural
(integrated and intelligent) and regulatory, to allow the market to
function in the most efficient way possible,” assured Catala.
It should be noted that the Logistics Strategy was implemented in
2013, mainly with the purpose of promoting the logistics industry as one
the engines for Spain’s economy.
Moreover, Catalá said that the Mediterranean Corridor is one of the core projects in the Logistics Strategy, as its area of influence affects 47.8% of the Spanish population and 44.8% of the country’s GDP, which generates almost half of the total freight traffic.
The official noted that “so far, contracts worth 570 million Euro
have already been tendered and others worth 388 million have been
awarded.”
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