The shipping company MSC, which last week announced its resignation from carrying out the project it has proposed for this environment in the Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) of the Port of Valencia due to “administrative slowness” and the judicial appeals filed against the development of that ground, indicated this Monday that it is postponing that decision after being informed by the Valencian administrations that the license could be in the short term.
The company, which has already begun to look for other locations outside of Valencia – in municipal terms close to this city and the port area – has demanded in order to remain in the ZAL both that the permit arrive in a short period of time and that it have all the guarantees to carry out your initiative. If not, the company will continue looking for locations outside the Valencian capital.
This was indicated by the general director of MSC Spain, Francisco Lorente, in statements to the media. Asked about the recently announced resignation and the situation of the project proposed by this firm, he responded: “We are in a moment of reflection.”
Lorente has indicated that in the face of his possible departure from the ZAL the Valencian administration “has reacted in a very efficient” and “very quick” manner and has asked MSC to wait “a short time” to have “solutions” that lead to ” “retake” the option of continuing in the territory of this logistical environment.
“The first interest we have is to be in the ZAL, because it was the location we had chosen,” added the head of the company, who has also shown his intention to be as close to the Port as possible.
“If the administration – he said, referring to the Valencia City Council and the Generalitat – gives us a quick solution, we will reconsider our decision to get out of that project in that territory”, but “if things drag on, obviously, we will continue looking a new location”, highlighted Francisco Lorente, who highlighted that “on the outskirts of Valencia there are countless lands” that “can be very useful” to the shipping company.
The Valencia City Council, for its part, has assured that it will do “whatever is legally possible” to maintain MSC’s investment in the ZAL, whose technical and legal difficulties it has blamed on the “poisoned legacy of the negligent actions of the left that “has dedicated itself to putting a brake on all investments” in the city, according to municipal sources following the statements made by Lorente in a call to the media.
