The Council of Ministers could give the green light to the expansion of the port of Valencia in the coming days. There is a feeling in the Valencian administration and this is what the president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazón, expects from the next visit of the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente.
“I do not contemplate any other option other than to come and say that the Government is going to authorize the expansion,” Mazón assured during the appearance shared with the Madrid president Isabel DÃaz Ayuso at the Madrid-Valencian Community business summit that is being held this Tuesday at the capital. “In this community of open doors, nothing else can be allowed than for the minister to say on Thursday that there is a clear path to the expansion of the port of Valencia,” she stated emphatically.
Regarding the project that the Council of Ministers could approve in the coming days, the head of the Consell has indicated that “we have done our homework” and added that “the impacts show that (the expansion) is sustainable.”
Mazón has also made reference to the update of prices of the cost of the work “to have them in minute and result”, and that with the update approved on December 5, the cost of the expansion project has gone from adding 542 euros to reach 660 million euros. This price update, as noted by Mar Chao, president of the PAV in the press conference held last week, would not influence “anything” in the project that the central government has on the table.
Isabel DÃaz Ayuso has also given her opinion on the port, defending that they wish to “convert our region into the logistics node of southern Spain.” Ayuso and Mazón have defended the creation of a joint platform between both territories “for projection and the future.” And she has committed to picking up the gauntlet of the business community: “We want to exercise leadership in the south of Spain, by land, sea and air and promoting employment and growth,” declared the president of the Community of Madrid. “The seaport of Madrid is the port of Valencia,” she added.
Mazón and Ayuso’s assessments are part of a day on the economic connections of the two territories, for which the port of València is fundamental, as speakers and experts have highlighted. The president of the Valencian port, Mar Chao, has also made reference to this in the logistics table in which she has participated and in which she has asked “as a gift from Santa Claus that the tender for the northern terminal of the Port go ahead.”
