The Government has taken advantage of celebration this Thursday of the 10 years of the container terminal Hutchison Ports Bestin the Port of Barcelona, to update the calendar of the project of the rail and road access. Ironies of fate, at the crowded company party, there were several ‘consellers’ and senior officials who have been talking about it for decades dates about some infrastructures calls to take out goods in a sustainable and competitive way. All have always jumped into the air.
The minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban AgendaRaquel Sánchez, one of the last speakers in an act of more than three hours, knew that probably those who were going to precede her in the use of the word would coincide in the claim. So he has verbalized what the administrations and economic fabric they commented before the celebration in small groups (“It’s almost ready”, they advanced).
600 million investment
“The work continues regularly and tirelessly. The fruits are beginning to arrive and the forecast is that Before the end of the year the basic project will be finished & rdquor ;, has revealed. The approximate investment is €600 million and should serve to duplicate the still derisory 15% rail fee from the port of Barcelona. With this, the mediterranean corridor would start to take shape.
In fact, the Hutchison Container Terminal, the port crown jewel for what has helped to grow the numbers of the port, it would be one of the first interested in finish the entrances. “We want to remember that last year 250,000 TEUS were transported by railwe have opted for sustainable mobility, installing solar panels… Ours is sustainable competitiveness and we want to continue making history”, explained the CEO of BestWilliam Belcastro.
The merit of the record numbers
The President of Port of Barcelona, Damia Calvethas confessed that he feels “proud” of the “most efficient terminal in Europe” and highlighted that, from day one, the multinational had “the ambition to be the best”. Hutchison believed in the “power of the Mediterranean”, he stressed. The road and rail accesses should serve precisely to connect that economic bow So powerful.
The minister of Transport, in fact, has underlined that the Port of Barcelona experienced a growth close to 20% last year: “Today it can boast of being one of the main distribution hub of the Mediterranean”. “We can grow while respecting the environment“, Sánchez warned in a veiled support for the controversial enlargement from the neighboring airport.
A conscious and committed firm
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The mayor of El Prat de Llobregat, Luis Mijolerthe municipality where the container terminal is located, has congratulated Best’s decade and has described it as a company “with a conscience”, which is “committed” to the territory in which it is located, the Delta.
Same as the road and rail access projects to the port, the celebration of the Best party on the Prat wharf has lasted almost until midnight, with musical performances, ‘castells’, live painting, prizes or videos with parliaments, with the enthusiastic participation of the company’s workers .