Free Trade Zone will provide answers to the business fabric of Campo de Gibraltar with the expansion of its tax precinct in the municipalities of Algeciras, Los Barrios and La Línea
The special delegate of the State in the Cádiz Free Zone Consortium, Jorge Ramos, attended yesterday afternoon a conference in Los Barrios by the president of the Confederation of Businessmen of Andalusia (CEA), Javier González de Lara y Sarria, presented by the president of the Confederation of Businessmen of Cádiz, Javier Sánchez Rojas, and organized by the Europa Sur newspaper, from the Joly Group. The event was attended by a large number of authorities and businessmen from the region.
In line with the intervention of González de Lara, who advocated that the crisis stage must have shown Andalusian companies that they must work to be more competitive and have greater capacity to access markets, Ramos participated in this event as support and support for the business community of Campo de Gibraltar, -and by extension of the entire province-, which he considers a fundamental piece to emerge strengthened from the current difficult economic situation.
The State delegate considers, and has stated this in multiple interventions, that businessmen and specifically entrepreneurs are the true architects of economic growth, since without businessmen companies cannot be created, which are the real drivers of the economy and job creators.
The head of the Cádiz Consortium supports this approach in all the initiatives and projects launched by the Institution, from the certainty that the province of Cádiz has a serious structural deficit, with an insufficient productive model to create employment, lacking a business network of small and medium-sized companies that causes it, even in good economic times, to have an unemployment rate ten points above the average of the rest of the country.
To counteract this reality, Ramos focuses most of the work and efforts of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone on providing SMEs and entrepreneurs with equipment, services and tools for financing, so that they favor their implementation and growth. Only with this line of work, the province of Cádiz will be able to achieve the economic development that corresponds to it due to the situation, history and capacity of its people.
Along these lines, the Free Zone plans to intensify the economic model of the province and the Region focus on the expansion of the tax area, which currently has 324,000 m2 in Cádiz, to other municipalities, reaching 1,300,000 m2 throughout the province, with Algeciras, La Línea and Los Barrios in Campo de Gibraltar.
With this expansion and within the project of the Southern European Logistics Platform, Zona Franca proposes to enhance, not only the distribution of goods, but also and above all, convert the province into a production center, through the installation of companies in tax precincts in which, by being able to benefit from customs and tax advantages, they save production costs and, therefore, increase competitiveness.