Ramos highlights the collaboration between institutions in this action, which foresees the creation of between 300 and 400 direct jobs
The State delegate in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Jorge Ramos, and the managing director of the Public Agency of Ports of Andalusia, Miguel Angel Paneque, have signed this morning the agreement that will allow the acquisition by the Free Zone of the land in El Fresno, in Los Barrios, with a surface that will range between 70,000 m2 and 100,000 m2, where the tax facility will be located in the Logistics Area. Bay of Algeciras.
Jorge Ramos expressed his gratitude to those present and in particular highlighted "the total and absolute collaboration of the Junta de Andalucía", describing the signing as an important act in which the State Administration and the Autonomous Administration have been able to live up to the benefit of citizens and economic activity.
In this sense, the Free Trade Zone delegate announced that there are already commitments and companies interested in locating on the land of the Barreño municipality, where the creation of between 300 and 400 direct jobs and an investment of 70-80 million euros is expected.
The delegate of the Free Trade Zone also highlighted the “historical moment and the dimension that the entity acquires, since for the first time the Free Trade Zone jumps from its traditional location to expand.”” and assured that El Fresno will be a productive space of great importance given its strategic location, since the fiscal precinct will be located next to the northern access to the Port of Algeciras and at the foot of the road communication with Seville and Madrid and the Mediterranean corridor, which makes it the most important hinterland of the Port of Algeciras.
In fact, today's event represents the starting point of the great project of extension and expansion to the entire province in which the Free Trade Zone is immersed and, especially, in the Bay of Algeciras, where it plans to have a surface area of tax premises exceeding 300,000 m2, in which new productive spaces will be created for the establishment of companies, taking advantage of the customs and fiscal advantages of a tax precinct and thus intensifying its competitiveness in the field of the Countryside. from Gibraltar and, practically, “on foot of the boat” of the great Port of Algeciras.
The expansion and expansion of the Free Zone is a project that comes to light thanks to the commitment and commitment of the Government of Spain, which is carrying out a significant investment effort in the province through different tools and specific plans. Thus, this operation, which has the political and financial support of the Government through the Reindustrialization Funds, will be one of those that Zona Franca presents for the call for aid for Reindustrialization.
This ambitious plan to expand and consolidate the Tax Precinct in different municipalities of the province, once the capital's Precinct is already 97% filled, will enable the Free Trade Zone to make a qualitative and quantitative leap as a dynamic instrument for the Cadiz economy, quadrupling its land, which will go from the 330,000 m2 of its current Tax Precinct to more than 1,300,000 m2.
The development of the plan is multi-year, with a forecast to be undertaken in 4-5 years, and concentrates actions in three key areas of the province: the aforementioned Bay of Algeciras-Campo de Gibraltar, the Bay of Cádiz and Jerez de la Frontera.
In the Bay of Algeciras, the Free Zone will expand by the aforementioned more than 300,000 m2, in the municipalities of Algeciras –on the land of Los Pastores-Cortijo Real- and in La Línea –in contact with the Linense City Council to locate the future fiscal precinct–, in addition to Los Barrios, creating an important logistics area for distribution and production that will increase the economic activity of the area and will present an alternative to the problems of Gibraltar.