The government has marked as one of its main challenges, within the construction of the Mediterranean corridor, Get the rail connection of the main ports and productive centersincluding Ford factories in Almussafes and Seat in Martorell. This has been pointed out by Josep Vicent Boira, government commissioner for the Mediterranean corridor, at a discussion table of the forum organized by the Iberian press in which strategic elements have also been addressed such as the problem of access to housing or deficiencies in water infrastructure.
The table, moderated by the director of the newspaper Information, Toni Cabot, has discussed the conclusions of The different tips that have been making contributions to the forum on various topics of interest. Before starting, the absence of Inma Saranova, executive director of Ibiza Preservation, who has not been able to intervene has been excused.
The construction of the Mediterranean corridor has occupied much of the time, being Josep Vicent Boira who wanted to announce, before all, The imminent opening of an office in Almeríathat will be added to those that are already operational in Barcelona and Valencia, in order to transmit information about the project and also collect suggestions and concerns.
In his speech, he has not hesitated to qualify the corridor as The most ambitious work in Spain. “It affects the mobility of passengers and merchandise, which also affects fundamental elements such as decarbonization of transport,” he specified.
And this is where he has referred to the challenge of connecting, with international width, all the main ports, from Alicante to France, with Europe. “If we managed to have Barcelona, Tarragona, Sagunto, Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena, Malaga, Algeciras conveniently … Algeciras … We would have a logistics plus with Europe and even in North Africa. All after remembering that, when the corridor project began, there were ports, such as those of Castellón, which had no rail connection.
But it has not been there, since it has also described vital to achieve rail connections with the Ford factories in Almussafes or Seat in Martorell, in addition to LThe powerful agricultural productive centers that spread throughout the Mediterranean arch. “We are building more than a train, this is going on logistics and strategic capacity. It is a communication vector of people and goods. It is the august route of the 21st century.”
Boira, who recalled that the government has been tendered More than 8,000 million euros in Corridor projectshas highlighted the need for France to accelerate the projects that you have to execute to allow connections with Spain, within the installation of international road width. “What we want is to take the goods from any port or productive area to take it anywhere in Europe,” he said.
Dwelling
With regard to housing, the Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Alicante, Paloma Taltavull, has talked about the conclusions of his work group, centered on housing, crumbling what this market is conditioning. Thus, he has referred to the confluence of three factors. A positive one, such as the increase in demand, and two others that are not so much, as The lack of offerdue to the strong decrease in construction activity after the financial crisis, which is increasing prices, and the limitation of access to credit, which limits the acquisition of new homes and stress the rental market.
With all this, the group's proposals are to improve the financing lines, and establish Incentive lines for housing construction affordable that reduce the risks of promoters who have also decreased considerably. It is also advocated by enhancing training to combat the lack of labor and the use of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, to reduce bureaucracy and administrative obstacles.
Finally, José Sandoval, general director of Water in the Region of Murcia, has referred to Defficiencies in water infrastructureremembering what happened with the Dana, with serious economic and, above all, human losses. In this sense, these infrastructure are known and are in the plans of Cuenca, although most, without executing. And everything, remarks, for a large stumbling block called financing.
So, He has been critical of the European Union for not allocating funds for these actionswhile it has opted to implement in other areas what in Murcia is called the solidarity canon.
