Thus, progress is made in the urban planning process to reorganize the land and adapt it to the needs of the new Bahía de Algeciras tax area.
After the initial approval, the documents go on public display until the final approval that will allow the start of the works that will make up this first-class logistics space.
The Governing Board of the Los Barrios City Council has today given the green light to the initial approval of the two detailed studies presented at the end of August by the Zona Franca and required by the Consistory to advance the urban planning process of the new Bahía de Algeciras tax precinct that is going to be developed in the municipality.
After this step, the documents go on public exhibition and subsequently the final approval, which will be the milestone that allows the start of the necessary works to create the facility, works that are expected to last approximately one year. To speed up the procedures, Zona Franca has also already contracted the execution project.
Specifically, the detailed studies that already have initial approval include the distribution of uses, organization of spaces, enclosure and security measures, among other fundamental elements for the configuration of the new tax precinct, one of the priority projects of the Free Zone in the province.
Within the usos the predominant ones are those corresponding to the logistics and distribution, combined with productive activities low intensity as storage and also company offices. Activities corresponding to the logistics subsystem of production and light industrial activities will also be compatible uses. A wide range that will allow you to shape the most competitive offer and adapted to the needs of the business fabric and that are being specified in the marketing plan.
Along these lines and in parallel to the progress in the urban planning procedures and adaptation works for the implementation of the fiscal precinct, the Consortium is also advancing in the preparation of a marketing plan, which is being planned attending to real needs of the Campo-Gibraltar business fabric, closely linked to port activity and foreign trade operations due to its proximity to the port of Algeciras.
Thus, the State delegate in the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, held a meeting at the end of September with the main socioeconomic agents and institutions of the region to coordinate and unite the conditions of the area in order to attract business projects with high added value and linked to international trade.
It is important to note that companies that operate in the Bahía de Algeciras tax area will benefit, depending on the activity they carry out, from the customs and tax advantages of a tax area, which represents cost savings and added competitiveness to their activity.
The project, in figures
The Bahía de Algeciras tax precinct offers a productive space of 130,000 m2 with a strategic location, with direct access to the Port of Algeciras as well as the A-7 and A-381 highways. The investment planned to undertake the basic project to adapt the fiscal premises amounts to a total of 2.539.798,14 euros. Includes items such as civil work, with the enclosure and perimeter road and access control; and facilities, with subheadings such as detection and perimeter television circuit, access control of vehicles and personnel, control center, telecommunications, electrical installation and lighting, among others. These items reflect the complexity of the new facility, which will represent a milestone in concepts like surveillance and access control, in which the Free Trade Zone has worked intensely and in coordination with the Customs demarcation with the aim of integrate las new technologies from communication to customs work.
The Bahía de Algeciras tax precinct is a project that was given a definitive boost by the Government of Spain when it was included as a strategic enclave in the Comprehensive Plan for the Campo-Gibraltar region that in November 2018, in the Ministry of Finance section, mentioned “the creation of a free zone of 130,000 m2 in Los Barrios." Less than a year later, on October 1, 2019, the Ministry of Finance authorized the ministerial order for the implementation of the facility, an announcement that was presented by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, to a broad representation of the socioeconomic fabric of the region.