Ramos will delve into the impact that the creation of new tax precincts will have on both bays, with the consequent increase in industrial and logistical activity.
Free Trade Zone will also consider deepening joint promotion to the markets of the ports themselves and the tax precincts.
The expansion and expansion project of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone Consortium is now a reality. For this reason, and in order to advance in its implementation and to present it to social agents and institutions, the Special delegate of the State in the Free Zone of Cádiz has requested meetings with the presidents of the Port Authorities of the Bays of Cádiz and Algeciras, José Luis Blanco and Manuel Morón respectively, to inform them of the largest project carried out by the Free Zone in decades and that will place it in the next 3-5 years as the first industrial focus of the province and, above all, to seek and coordinate joint lines of action, taking into account the interrelation of port activity and the creation of new spaces with customs and tax advantages, as well as the considerable increase in logistics activity that the expansion of the Free Zone will entail both in the Bay of Cadiz and in the Campo de Gibraltar.
Likewise, the Free Trade Zone will also raise the importance of deepening the joint promotion before the international markets of the ports themselves and the tax precincts, in order to take advantage of synergies and strengths, as well as offering a more competitive offer not only from the point of view of distribution, but to position Cádiz as a reference area also in production, for which the creation of new productive spaces with the new tax precincts of the Free Zone in the province has a fundamental role.
Specifically, in his meeting with the president of the Port of Cádiz, the Free Trade Zone delegate will focus on presenting the expansion of the Fiscal Precinct in Cádiz by 130,000 m2, with a planned investment of 38 to 40 million euros and co-financing with Reindus Funds, highlighting the expected implementation of at least three important industries in the first six months. The expansion in Cádiz will also be added to the expansion of the Free Trade Zone in Jerez and the forecast in the Las Aletas industrial estate, creating an important geostrategic area with an important industrial and logistics area.
For its part, the extension of the Free Trade Zone to Campo de Gibraltar will be the focus of Ramos' presentation to the president of the Port of Algeciras, to whom he will detail the Consortium's important commitment to the Region. In fact, the Bay of Algeciras is one of the fundamental pillars of the expansion, where the Free Trade Zone plans to have a surface area of tax precincts exceeding 300,000 m2, in which new productive spaces will be created for the establishment of companies, taking advantage of the customs and tax advantages of a tax precinct and thus intensifying its competitiveness in the area of the Campo de Gibraltar and, practically, "on foot." boat” of the great Port of Algeciras. Not in vain, the strategic location of the Port, the first port in Spain and fifth in Europe by volume of merchandise, is one of the main incentives for the creation of new Free Zone tax precincts in Los Barrios, Algeciras and La Línea.
The action in Los Barrios is the first and most advanced of the expansion project, and is also a clear example of the importance of collaboration between institutions to develop major actions. Thus, last September, the Free Trade Zone and the Public Agency of Ports of Andalusia signed the agreement that allowed the acquisition of between 70,000 m2 and 100,000 m2 of sector 1 of El Fresno, where the tax facility will be located in the Bahía de Algeciras Logistics Area and which has obtained the support of the National Government through the Reindus Funds.
In the Bay of Algeciras, Zona Franca will expand in the municipality of Algeciras, on the land of Los Pastores-Cortijo Real, an action for which a “Review of the partial plans of sector 8 Los Pastores and 9 Cortijo Real de Algeciras” was already presented a few months ago” to concentrate the land and achieve a closed and unified area of about 130,000 m2 that complies with the legal determinations required from a tax and customs point of view. In parallel, contacts will be established with Endesa to propose solutions that allow the electricity supply in the future site.
For its part, in La Línea Zona Franca it maintains contacts with the City Council to find a location for the future tax precinct, creating an important logistics area for distribution and production that will increase the economic activity of the area and will propose an alternative to the problems of Gibraltar.