The State delegate in the Free Trade Zone, Jorge Ramos, participated yesterday afternoon in the act of accession of El Puerto de Santa María to the Province of Cádiz, Southern European Logistics Platform, a project whose main objective is to convert Cádiz into a center for trade and transportation of goods between Europe, Africa and America.
The mayor of the municipality, Alfonso Candón, presented the project that supports the inclusion of the town in this initiative, in which the first mayor has been working since he took office, “because I understand that it has advantages for us,” he said. Also present at the call were the mayor of Cádiz, Teófila Martínez; the mayor of Chiclana, Ernesto Marín; and the vice president of the Provincial Council of Cádiz, Ignacio Romaní.
During the event, Jorge Ramos stressed the idea that the Province of Cádiz, Southern Europe Logistics Platform is a project that unites, that does not divide, because it is a project that encompasses everyone without exception. Therefore, we are facing a provincial project of the first magnitude that has to mark a turning point in the inadequacies of the current economic model, completing it with the logistics to place Cádiz in the group of the “best among the best”.
Ramos continued by explaining that we must intensify logistics, based on the income situation of this province, its infrastructure and its productive spaces, to also add "production." We are facing a global project that covers the two basic concepts of the current commercial strategy: Distribution and Production, with the Free Zone providing the expansion and expansion of its tax precincts, which will go from the current 330,000 m2 to more than 1,300,000 m2 in tax and customs precincts in the Bay of Cádiz, Bay of Algeciras and Jerez and Campiña.
If we add to these cost advantages that will enable the competitiveness of companies that settle in these tax areas the province's offer of more than 40 million m2 of productive spaces suitable for the establishment of companies, we will be in a position to configure a development model also based on the industrialization of our territory.
Ramos concluded by stating that the next decade, and even sooner, will mark the end of the economic imbalance that this province has always had with respect to other territories.
For her part, the mayor of Cádiz admitted that "The Port is one of the three legs of the Platform", Bahía de Cádiz, Bahía de Algeciras and Jerez, recalling that the project was born in 2012 "with the need to formulate a joint work strategy to make the existing resources profitable. And we asked ourselves a question, why the province, when there was economic growth, grew less and when there was a crisis, it eliminated employment sooner than anyone else. And An initiative like the Platform emerged to respond.”
Ernesto Marín explained that Chiclana joined this common project a few weeks ago, understanding that it is a pillar to create the future. "We couldn't miss this opportunity if we want to be on the platform for when the recovery train passes. It's a brave step," he said.
Likewise, the vice president of the Provincial Council, Ignacio Romaní, assured that we must believe in "this idea of the province, of the development of common projects, which are being developed at a unique moment. We are not only talking about the future, but about the present." Romaní understood that the municipalities that make up the Platform “are cities that contribute a lot to the project, which is why we are in for a day of congratulations because it becomes a province.”
The mayor of Porto, Alfonso Candón admitted that “The Port is the geographical epicenter in the Bay of Cádiz, a place where business, industrial, technological, commercial, environmental and endowment activities already coexist, with access to transport and logistics facilities and activities, and therefore, with nodal transport and linear infrastructures, which are closely related to the economic activity of the environment that gives meaning to the Southern Europe Logistics Platform.
The Port, with its integration into the Logistics Platform, makes available to companies a consolidated ecosystem with the capacity for evolution, adaptation and sustainable growth, which enables a wide range of economic activities in the epicenter of the Bay of Cádiz, with a complete unifying display of complementary possibilities, configuring itself as a geographical area with a high level of quality and synergy for a business environment. favorable, competitive and state-of-the-art.