The State Delegate in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González received Margarita Pena and Carlos González Pérez, who met different facilities of interest and possible referents for future projects on the island
During the day yesterday Thursday visited the work of the Bahía de Algeciras fiscal enclosure, the port of Algeciras and Dalse, the 50% managed frank deposit by the Cadiz and Bernardino Abad Consortium
Fran González considers the coordination and joint work between free zones to create synergies that benefit the area of influence of each of them
The State delegate in the FreeFar Zone of Tenerife, Margarita Pena, and the president of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Carlos González, were received yesterday by the delegate of the State in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, who accompanied them during a day in which they knew different facilities of the Gibraltar field.
The day served so that those responsible for the two Canary institutions could verify first hand the powerful logistics capacity and the great revitalization of the productive activity that the region has, with the large port of Algeciras as an economic focus and the Fiscal Campus Bahía de Algeciras in full development.
In this way, they visited the work and could verify the good progress of the works of the fiscal enclosure where the perimeter fence is currently being executed and the foundation of the building that will serve as a control area, in a space that will be a pioneer in surveillance, security and customs system.
The Tenerife delegate was very interested with the customs security and processing system that will implement the Free Zone of Cádiz in the new fiscal space, since for the control of access of vehicles, trucks and people a modern system has been designed that allows online processing with customs of permits and accesses and facilitates the work of the operators and the access and exit of goods. For this, there will be three porches for the control of vehicles that have multiple cameras: front and rear license plate, side containers, rear containers; So if authorizations and customs procedures are well, the system will allow entry or exit without the need for papers mediation. In the case of people, lathes will be installed with facial recognition.
Subsequently, Margarita Pena and Carlos González, always accompanied by Fran González, made an institutional visit to the Port Authority Bay of Algeciras where they were received by the president of the entity, Gerardo Landaluce, with which they exchanged experiences and analyzed possible lines of work set taking advantage of the synergies of traffic and operators of both ports.
The visit to the Algecireño port concluded with a tour of the facilities that APM Terminals has in the port of Algeciras, one of the largest terminals of the Western Mediterranean and a natural cargo transport center to and from Africa, Europe and the Far East.
The Free Zone of Cádiz has the port of Algeciras as a great ally, together with the corporate agents of the region, for the development and commissioning of the Bahía de Algeciras fiscal enclosure and both entities share synergies to attract companies and investment to the new space Prosecutor of the Free Zone in the Bay of Algeciras who will have a positive impact throughout the region.
In this sense, Fran González explained that he is convinced that “it is essential to coordinate between the seven Spanish free zones, each with its characteristics and strengths, to create synergies and that the socio -productive fabric of the areas of influence of each one benefits from each Of these and even more with the FreeFar Zone of Tenerife, with whom we share a strategic location in the Atlantic that leads us to a natural alliance ”.
The delegate of Zona Franca de Cádiz also highlighted the importance of “collaboration with the ports as an added value of the activity of fiscal enclosures, a valuable collaboration that we are already verifying in the implementation and marketing of the Bahía de Algeciras fiscal enclosure ”
For their part, Margarita Pena and Carlos González transferred to the delegate Fran González his thanks for these two fruitful day and their satisfaction for the potential detected in the province and the great opportunity that the Cadiz companies have to have two fiscal enclosures in the bays of Cádiz and Algeciras.
For Pena “the visit to the province of Cádiz by the Free Zone cannot be more productive. The Cadiz consortium is a reference for us for its more than nine decades of history and for its strategic location also in the Atlantic. From the free zone of Tenerife and from the hand of its port we believe fundament international ”.
Likewise, the president of the Port Authority of Algeciras, Gerardo Landaluce, shared the interest of the Free Frank of Tenerife in the impulse that alternative energies must take as is the case of green hydrogen, in which as in the islands, they also work in various projects of the private initiative to produce and supply it in the Bay of Algeciras. “It is one of the fuels of the future”, said Landaluce, who recalled that the port of Algeciras aligns with its green strategy with the commitments to act sustainably of the UN 2030 Agenda, the 2030 Agenda of the World Network of Port Cities (AIVP), the environmental priorities which establishes the European Ports Organization (ESPO) and the lines of work of the European Green Pact.
The day concluded with a visit to the customs and logistics deposit of southern Europe (Dalse), a 50% participated company in the Free Zone and the Bernardino Abad company, which is located on the Isla Verde dock, of the port of Algeciras, and It is dedicated to the logistics services of added value and to the deposit of goods, managing an exempt area with fiscal and tariff benefits that provide the different customs authorizations, assimilating it to the free zones. The Canarian responsible were very interested in knowing these facilities and their way of operation as a reference for future projects in Tenerife.
Fran González showed Margarita Pena and Carlos González the facilities of Dalse, which has more than 12,000 meters of warehouse, ten load springs -Tres for refrigerated merchandise-, Bitémpera Chamber and machinery for bottle seal.
The visit of those responsible for the Canary institutions continues today Friday in the Cadiz capital, where the fiscal enclosure of Cádiz will know and will also be received in the port by the president of the Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz (APBC), Teófila Martínez.
