The firm submitted itself to the open public offer at the end of July to qualify for 6,266 m2 of what is known as the APT (finished products warehouse) of the former Altadis.
The company, traditionally dedicated to foreign trade, has more than 200 workers and will contribute to the revitalization of the interior area
The Executive Committee of the Free Trade Zone, meeting this morning, has authorized the award to the company Bayport Global Supplies of a part of the facilities of the former Altadis so that this firm can be located in the tax area of the Cadiz capital. Specifically, there are 6,366 m2 of the so-called Finished Products Warehouse (APT), equipment that went up for Public Offer at the end of last July and which has remained open until the end of September.
It should be noted that the Consortium has modified the conditions for contracting public offers, including the one that affected Bayport -OP 6/19- with the aim of adapting them to the needs and reality of the current market, with which it is expected that the Free Zone facilities will respond more adequately to the demand of businessmen and will produce a positive effect of attracting companies.
In this case, the Bayport company, which will move its activity from its facilities at the Tres Caminos Industrial Estate in the municipality of Puerto Real to the Free Trade Zone (offices, warehouses and other facilities), will carry out the work of adapting this equipment of the former tobacco company, adapting it to its needs and activity and will have a grace period on the payment of the lease.
To do this, the work that the Cádiz company is going to carry out must comply with the specifications included in a report from the Consortium's Technical Department, in which a budget for the works and an execution deadline are determined.
Bayport, formerly known as Puerto y Bahía, was born in 1979 as a general ship supplier in the port of the Cadiz capital and soon expanded its ship supply activity operating in other ports: Seville, Huelva, Algeciras, El Puerto de Santa María or the Rota Naval Base.
The increase in business volume caused its first facilities to become small, in addition to promoting the opening of new branches throughout the national territory; in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in 2012, and to date, in Bilbao, Ferrol, Valencia, Barcelona and Vigo.
The company currently has more than 200 workers and works supplying ships, whether cruise ships, merchant ships or fishing vessels; State security bodies (military, National Police, Civil Guard, Local Police, Public Administrations, local, provincial, national and international); in addition to shipyards and industry in general, being at the same time the leading company in Cádiz in terms of number of foreign trade operations.
The installation of Bayport in the tax area of the Free Zone encourages the continuation of the line of work undertaken by the Consortium to reinforce the commercial strategy aimed at attracting new companies that fill the facilities of the Cádiz Institution with activity and content not only in Cádiz capital but throughout the province.
The Free Trade Zone of Cádiz is betting on the strengthening of the commercial department and on actions aimed at the Cádiz site regaining its prominence in operations related to foreign trade, always under the premise that any action or project undertaken by the Consortium must respond to strategic planning, technical feasibility and economic sustainability.