In a new edition of Meetings SER, the Minister of Transport and Mobility, Jose Luis Ábalos, has explained that it is time to start reactivation and reconstruction with prudence. He believes that this crisis may be an opportunity to modernize the transport sector, promote its digitization and its transition towards sustainability.
In this sense, one of the keys is promote the transport of goods by rail mode as a pending issue, improving the logistics chain, and everything that has to do with proximity and commuter transport. Also road maintenance, essential to maintain and improve road safety.
Regarding the commitment to the Valencian Community, Ábalos has highlighted some achievements from before the pandemic, such as the liberalization of the AP7 or the progress in the bids of the Mediterranean corridor. And it has announced that the BOE will publish tomorrow Thursday the provisional approval of two highway projects: the access of the National 332 in Oliva and the incorporation lane to Benidorm on that same road. And starting tomorrow, it is planned to continue with the implementation of the international gauge at Moncofa station in Castellón. They will run until August at night.
New Stadler Technology Center
In this discussion forum, Iñigo Parra, president of Stadler Valencia, has announced that Stadler has chosen Valencia for its new technology center for regional and commuter trains for North America and Southern Europe. This decision, the final scope of which will depend on the workload in the national market, involves incorporating into Valencia the technology for manufacturing aluminum boxes with a investment of more than 40 million euros and the creation of more than 500 direct jobs. Stadler will turn Valencia into a worldwide benchmark railway technology center, according to the company’s head.
Great news according to President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, which points out that it is the moment in which the public sector has to pull the economy, in the same line in which Europe is going, which has understood that the exit from this crisis must be done in parameters very different from those of the crisis 2008. Economic, social and environmental sustainability is necessary and take advantage of available resources to strengthen companies like these, which are drivers of the rest of the economy. And in that sense, the government of Spain should do like Germany and support them.
Debate on business and mobility
In the course of the debate, both Adolf Utor, president of Baleària, as well as Carlos Bertomeu, president of Air Nostrum, have highlighted the importance of ICO guarantees in order to maintain companies and the definitive future commitment to digitization. In the case of Air Nostrum, a resizing of the companies in the aviation sector is assumed in the coming years. And for his part President Ford Spain has highlighted the commitment to electrification at the Almussafes plant, which must be key for the European management to choose the Valencian plant for its future plans.
The debate was held at the CEV headquarters in Valencia, the president of the regional employer Salvador Navarro, has highlighted the importance of establishing frameworks for dialogue and debate between fundamental companies for the Valencian and Spanish economy.
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