The president of the Valencian Association of Businessmen (AVE), Vicente Boluda, has pointed out that, finally, “we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.” The businessman has expressed himself in a certainly more optimistic tone than in the last edition of this meeting that for seven editions has been led by Valencian businessmen along the Mediterranean corridor. “Yes, we are a little more optimistic, because with each year that progresses you see that the work progresses, but the double platform between Castellón and València, the València through tunnel, is still missing…” he added.
“We are satisfied that the corridor is advancing, but not at the speed we would like,” Boluda said before a crowd of journalists at the entrance to the IFEMA pavilion where this meeting in which 1,800 businessmen and women are participating is scheduled today.
The president of AVE hopes that most of the infrastructure will be in place by 2025 or 2026, but has assumed that until 2031 or 2032 “there will still be a lack of Almería to the south.” Likewise, when asked if the central government is doing everything possible, he declared that “more can always be done. In all these things, what we want is for them to become aware and all governments are already aware that the corridor is very important,” he confirmed.
The businessmen will ask the new Government, which will emerge from the investiture being voted on this Thursday, to “accelerate the pending works as much as possible, and to make an effort in Almería.” And he has warned that he will continue to call this meeting until the corridor is finished, “in the meantime we will be the scourge and the conscience.”
Josep Sánchez Llibre, president of Foment del Treball, also participated in the meeting, and assured that “here we are risking the competitiveness of companies, the competitiveness of workers and the health of our children and grandchildren.”
The Catalan businessman described it as “very sad” that businessmen have to demonstrate due to a lack of management by the administrations and has assured that thanks to this demand the Administration “is beginning to rise to the occasion.”
