The Generalitat Valenciana has made itself available to the shipping company MSC to find another place in the projects it planned to install in the ZAL of the port of Valencia. The Swiss company has given up locating itself in the logistics space due to, as it has reported to some media, the paralysis of the area due to the decisions of justice and bureaucracy.
MSC is now looking for another location. Vice President Susana Camarero announced yesterday that the Generalitat is in contact with the shipping company, a version that was also confirmed by the department of Minister Salomé Pradas.
Camarero stated this Tuesday, at the press conference after the council’s plenary session, that the Valencian Government “respects” but “regrets” the company’s decision, the result of “tiredness” and “exhaustion.”
The Generalitat, he added, “supports investment” and will lay out “a red carpet” for any company that wants to invest in this community. “We are going to help MSC to remain in the port environment, we will offer whatever help is necessary,” sources from this department said.
The Generalitat also reported that “the shipping company does not give up its project” which consists of two facilities, with an investment of 90 million euros, which must now be located in a radius close to the port of Valencia to optimize logistics management.
In statements to Valencia Plaza, the president of MSC Spain, pointed out that “we are working in the metropolitan area of ??Valencia, near the bypass and with connections to the V-30.” Its focus is on Silla, Paterna or Riba-Roja, that is, towns with a distance of up to 15 kilometers from the Valencian port area, according to this newspaper. “What cannot be done is play forever with private investment, which is why we maintain our interest in undertaking both projects, but in another area,” Llorente remarked.
Susana Camarero stressed that MSC’s 1.5 billion euro investment is not in danger when the northern expansion of the port is carried out, pending government approval. “We demand that the Government unblock this situation,” said Camarero, in line with what President Carlos Mazón has been demanding for months.
For his part, the spokesperson for the government team of the Valencia City Council, Juan Carlos Caballero, assessed that the decision of the shipping company MSC to abandon its projects in the port’s ZAL is “bad news” and maintained that his government will put an end to the ” sectarian obstacles” of the previous municipal executive to invest in the city.
“The news that any company decides not to come to Valencia is bad news and I would not understand that any party would be happy with this decision. The City Council is going to reverse the obstacles of the government of (Joan) Ribó and (Sandra) Gómez, which put barriers so that it was impossible, just because of sectarianism, because of their ideological model,” he added.
Caballero defended that València “has a lot of potential” for investment and urged, like the Consell, the central government to unblock the report that approves the expansion of the port, “which has been in the Council of Ministers since January.”
“The report that must authorize the expansion of the port of Valencia has been in the Council of Ministers since January, paralyzed by Pedro Sánchez’s government,” he warned.
Furthermore, he asked the PSOE “not to give in to its partners who do not want the port of Valencia to be expanded to favor the expansion of the port of Barcelona.”
