The agreement with the bankruptcy administration allows the consortium to market these facilities
Free Zone will have open the public offer to market the plant in the coming weeks
The Free Zone Plenary also approved the rates for ships, offices and plots of the fiscal enclosure, which will be in force during 2016 and 2017, a previous step to open the public offer
The Free Zone of Cádiz will be able to dispose of the Procosur ship in the interior enclosure, once the Executive Committee of the Consortium held last Thursday, May 19, authorized the resolution of the lease with the frozen company, in a bankruptcy proceedings Since the beginning of 2014.
The agreement with the bankruptcy administration allows the debt that the frozen company maintained with a free zone - and that amounted to 1.9 million euros - with the acquisition of part of the machinery and facilities. In this way, the Consortium and Procosur settled the lease contract that linked them since November 2012 for the use of the plant for the elaboration and marketing of frozen products located in the interior enclosure.
This step allows the free zone to get these facilities, 9,000 m2. The objective is to expedite the deadlines and market this equipment in the coming weeks, so the consortium will have open the public offer with rates also approved by a plenary in mid -May, which established the minimum prices for companies interested in installed in The fiscal enclosure, once the land of the former Altadis has been incorporated.
It should be remembered that the free zone invested around 8 million euros between 2009-2011 in these Procosur facilities, undertaking the civil work of the plant, which was intended to increase its competitiveness with a modern infrastructure and equipped with the latest technology in refrigerator facilities and productive machinery. Finally, the company entered into a creditors in 2014, and ended up dissolving its activity and closing.
Throughout that time the free zone, which was one of the main creditors of the frozen products company, did not try to collect the debt that already existed in order to try to refloat it and save the more than one hundred jobs it generated. Faced with the impossibility of Procosur from moving forward, the consortium has worked in recent months to reach an agreement with the bankruptcy administrator and to value facilities that, exploited by another company, will generate economic activity and employment in the city.
