Ramos took a tour of the projects launched in recent years, which cover business developments in all regions of the province with a global investment of more than 150 million euros.
He highlighted the great offer of attractive spaces for investment that the ZF expansion and expansion project will generate, aimed at completing the productive model of the province.
““The future of the Free Zone is its present. The expansion and expansion project will position it as the first industrial and economic hub of the province in the next 3-5 years." This statement was the central axis of the intervention of the Special delegate of the State of the Free Zone of Cádiz, Jorge Ramos, a few days ago in a Debate Table of the Ateneo de Cádiz, with the theme "The Port and the Free Zone of Cádiz. Present and Future”, in which he participated together with the president of the Port Authority, José Luis Blanco.
In an event that included the vice president of the Ateneo, José María Esteban González, as moderator, the top leader of the Consortium explained that the Free Trade Zone is immersed in a project of expansion and expansion to other municipalities in the province, which will position it in the next 3-5 years as the first economic and industrial hub of the province. “We are at the beginning of the great Free Zone of Cádiz, which is going to be the great Free Zone of Andalusia,” said Ramos, explaining that it will go from the 328,000 m2 - which it currently owns in Cádiz - to 1,300,000 m2 located in municipalities such as Los Barrios, Algeciras, La Línea or Jerez. This project will generate a significant supply of attractive land and available spaces for the implementation, especially of small and medium-sized companies, which will increase their competitiveness by being able to benefit from the customs and tax advantages inherent to a tax precinct and will, therefore, save production costs.
The delegate placed special emphasis on the support and commitment of the Government of Spain to the Free Trade Zone and made a complete assessment of the actions implemented in the last three years, which overall exceed 150 million euros and which, in many cases, are co-financed by Feder Funds, with the Free Trade Zone being an intermediate body within the framework of the operational program of Andalusia 2007-2013, with execution until December 20115, as well as many projects have been implemented. launched thanks to Reindus funds.
Along the same lines, Ramos explained that with the attraction of investments to the new productive spaces that the expansion of the Free Zone will generate, the Consortium is called to be a great factor in completing the productive model of the province, and thus overcome the challenge of the structural deficit that it has and for which, even in good economic times, it has an unemployment rate 10 points above the average of the rest of the country.