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The Port of Alicante will load bulk into a closed warehouse in January 2022 | Radio Alicante | Present

The Minister of Territorial Policy, Public Works and Mobility, Arcadi Spain, has met this Wednesday with the president of the Alicante Port Authority, Juan Antonio Gisbert, in an informative meeting in which they have addressed the main projects that the Port is currently undertaking and among which stands out the construction of a closed warehouse for the bulk loading and unloading powdery on pier 17.

Eiffage, the concessionaire company, began the works on February 1 with the signing of the reconsideration act and at present the previous works are focused on the disassembling the screens protective. The CEO of Eiffage Spain, Eduardo Fernandez, trusts that by the middle of the year the installation of the prefabricated warehouse can begin so that in January 2022 the “first ship with the new technology” is loaded and with 100% of the operations in watertight. In addition, port operations will improve since it estimates that it will take “a day and a half to fill the hold of a ship compared to the current three.” The investment is 14 million euros.

For his part, the president of the Port Authority, Juan Antonio Gisbert, stressed that this project is the industrial investment “most important” of the last years and guarantees the “viability” of the commercial cargo operation for the next few years. The “best news you can have”, he said, for the “city, the neighbors and the port.”

Meanwhile, the Minister Spain, thanked the Port and the concession company for having found a “solution because the problems of the city are the problems of the port and vice versa”.

ADIF trains

But Gisbert has also referred to the possibility that the Port of Alicante may temporarily host freight trains for the duration of a few works at the Chinchilla railway junction.

He insists that ADIF is the administration that has to “guarantee the security” of the trains that deviate to Alicante. Juan Antonio Gisbert, recalls that the Port “always” has been willing to offer help to the railway administrator.

It is not so much about the security of the cargo that these convoys can transport, he says, but rather that the Port is not competent in this area that ADIF must enforce. If so, the Alicante port “it has no drawback” for that traffic to enter and exit your station.

Meanwhile, from ADIF he remembers that he is working on a project that must be ratified by all those involved and that they seek the “best alternative”.

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