These companies demand 70,000 m2 with a total investment of 35 million euros and the creation of more than 500 jobs
Free Trade Zone is pending final approval of the modification of the PGOU, which is the responsibility of the City Council and the Government of Andalusia, to obtain a construction license and carry out the necessary work for the establishment of companies.
The State delegate in the Cádiz Free Trade Zone, Jorge Ramos, has already formally requested the General Directorate of Customs and Special Taxes for the status of Tax Precinct for the 140,000 m2 of surface that it has in El Fresno, in Los Barrios and that it acquired from the Public Agency Ports of Andalucia of the Junta de Andalucía.
With this new procedure and after the formal request sent last week for the same issue on the Altadis lands, the total surface area under the Tax Precinct regime that the Free Zone has amounts to 600,000 m2, located in Cádiz capital and in Los Barrios.
Once the modification of the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) is definitively approved, which is the responsibility of the Los Barrios City Council and the Government of Andalusia, Zona Franca could obtain the construction license and begin the necessary work for the establishment of companies.
With the administrative procedures in the background, contacts with companies interested in locating in this new industrial enclave do not cease. Following the Call for Public Offers opened by the Cádiz Institution in March, six companies have already submitted their offers to qualify for a space, mainly belonging to the logistics and food production sector.
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.
These six companies demand a total area of 70,000 m2 with an investment of more than 35 million euros and a forecast of creating more than 500 new jobs.
Zona Franca continues its work of searching for investments throughout the province and particularly in the Campo de Gibraltar region and continues to maintain contacts. In fact, there are already three more companies that are interested in settling in Free Zone spaces in a later phase.
Cádiz and Los Barrios are the first two important steps taken by the Cádiz Free Zone in the project to enlarge and expand the Tax Precinct to municipalities in the province, which will be followed by Algeciras, La Línea, Jerez, Puerto Real and Arcos, which will turn the Cádiz Free Zone into the great logistics enclave of Andalusia, going from 300,000 m2 to 1,300,000 m2. This project will generate a significant supply of attractive land and available spaces for the establishment of 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.