The Special Delegate of the State, Alfonso Pozuelo, met yesterday morning with the Deputy Director General of Customs Management, Nerea Rodríguez, to expedite the procedures for the authorization of this logistical enclave as a Fiscal Precinct.
The agreement with APPA, by which Zona Franca obtains ownership of 95,000 m2, seals the collaboration between both institutions for the development of this industrial land in the Bay of Algeciras
These lands add up to 38,900 m2 that ZF already owns in Sector 1 of El Fresno Sur, so the new facility will occupy a total area of approximately 130,000 m2
Free Trade Zone will make a first-class logistics space available to economic operators, with tax and customs advantages that will attract investments, increase business competitiveness, generating economic activity and employment.
The implementation of the “Bahía de Algeciras” tax precinct that the Free Trade Zone will develop in El Fresno, Los Barrios, has entered its final stretch with a strong push in the necessary procedures and procedures.
The Special Delegate of the State, Alfonso Pozuelo, and the managing director of the Public Agency of Ports of Andalusia (APPA), María Eulalia Fernández Bermejo, signed the lease contract for more than 95,000 m last week.2 in El Fresno, once the negotiations and collaboration between both administrations have fructified, a signature that will allow the development of this logistics enclave as a tax precinct.
In this way, the head of the Consortium met yesterday morning in Madrid with the deputy director general of Customs Management, Nerea Rodríguez Entremonzaga, to advance and expedite the procedures aimed at obtaining the authorization of a tax precinct for this land of a great logistical value and strategic location. Pozuelo handed over to the Deputy Director General of Customs Management the contract signed with the APPA, an essential requirement to complete the procedures.
The contract signed last week culminates months of efforts and procedures between both administrations in which the general interest and the objective of developing these lands have been prioritized to serve the business fabric of the area – logistics operators, large industries, small and medium-sized companies – who demand a logistics space with tax and customs advantages that provides service and added value to operations around the Port of Algeciras.
The sealed agreement implies for the Free Zone the possession title of the soil – for a period of 50 years – of 95,000 m2, an area that joins another plot of 38,900 m2 approximately what Zona Franca already has in Sector 1 of El Fresno Sur, so the future tax precinct will have an area of about 130,000 m2.
It is necessary to highlight the important step taken in the procedures aimed at implementing this industrial land with customs and tax advantages in the Campo Gibraltarian municipality, since obtaining ownership of the land was necessary to complete the procedures that the Free Zone maintains with the General Subdirectorate of Customs Management of the Ministry of Finance for the granting of a tax precinct designation for this industrial enclave.
Furthermore, and to advance the deadlines, the Consortium is already studying the Public Offer that will govern the commercialization of the land in order to expedite the rapid implementation of companies in an area with great potential and an unbeatable location.
With the signing of this agreement, the collaboration between the Free Trade Zone and the Junta de Andalucía is reflected and the firm commitment of the Government of Spain, through the Cádiz Consortium, for the logistical future of the province and specifically of the Bay of Algeciras is confirmed.
Zona Franca contributes all its know-how and decades of experience in internationalization and foreign trade, betting on land that will form an important focus of attracting investments, increasing the competitiveness and profitability of the companies that operate there, which It will result in the creation of wealth and employment in the area.
It must be remembered that Zona Franca is carrying out an important expansion and expansion project throughout the province and has already expanded its tax area in the capital of Cadiz. In March 2016, the Ministry of Finance authorized the expansion of the Tax Precinct in the city of Cádiz, which went from the 330,000 m2 it originally had to 486,881 m2 of surface with all the customs and fiscal advantages of the Free Zone.
