During the meeting of this technical commission, the Generalitat has transferred the results of the technical study prepared by the department with the aim of comparing the Email Data viability of the two locations for the implementation of one Intermodal Logistics Platform. The members of the Commission formed by the Generalitat and the Ministry have addressed these data and, after listening to the guests, have concluded that, in line with what the study determines, the most favorable alternative is that of Castelló.
María José Salvador has chaired the meeting, which is made up of three members of the Ministry and three of the Ministry. Thus, the Commission is made up of the councilor, the regional secretary Josep Vicent Boira and the general director of Public Works, Transport and Mobility, < a i=4>Carlos Domingo and, on behalf of the Ministry, the deputy director general of Railway Planning, Jorge Ballesteros; the deputy director of Infrastructure and Transportation Planning, Pascual Villate and the director of Logistics Services of Adif, Luis Vicente Moreno Espí.
The mayor of Castelló, Amparo Marco, and the mayor of Vila-real, < have been invited to the meeting. José Benlloch, as well as the president of the Port Authority of Castelló, Francisco Toledo, and the technical director of Puertos del Estado, Álvaro Rodríguez Dapena, as promised by the counselor Salvador, to present the conclusions of the study and listen to their contributions.
It must be remembered that the study compared the two possible alternatives: Castelló and Vila-real and the conclusions of the technical analysis indicated the Castelló alternative as the most favorable as it has advantages such as greater suitability of the land to install a 750-meter train terminal. , a larger surface area reserved for developing logistics activities, lower investment impact costs, better road access and better conditions for the intermodality of road and rail with maritime traffic.
Next step: Logistics Market Study
Once the technical commission has been constituted and the final territorial fit has been decided, the next step is the drafting of a Logistics Market Study so that Subsequently, the Ministry will prepare an economic feasibility study, as determined by the action protocol that established this roadmap.
As Salvador has highlighted, «this agreement will be beneficial because it has managed to unblock a situation that "It has caused us to lose competitiveness and opportunities and now the important thing is that this will provide a boost to the economic projection of the entire territory of the province of Castelló.