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the Spanish government meets the stakeholder of the harbour field in order to characterize the measures in order to increase the competitiveness of the ports
Last year the national ports of call have enlivened 470 million tons of goods (+5%)
January 24, 2013
Yesterday the Spanish minister of the Public works, Ana Pastor, and the president of governmental agency Puertos of the Estado, José Llorca, has met the representatives of the main national and international enterprises that they invest in the Spanish ports. The objective of the reunion has been that to discuss a series about proposals in order to improve the efficiency and the competitiveness of the harbour field. Moreover the situation of the harbour enterprises in Spain in current the economic context and the aspects is examined on which the harbour entrepreneurs consider that the ministry would have to place attention for a greater efficiency of the ports, in order to reduce the costs and in order to promote the positive trend of the harbour traffic, than in 2012 have marked an increment of 5% about regarding the year precedence attesting itself to 470 million tons of goods. Measures are estimated also in order to strengthen the position of the harbour enterprises on the international scene.
In the course of the encounter it is evidenced that in the 2012 investments in the Spanish ports they have been pairs to 700 million euros and the expectations are that they exceed the billion of euro. Minister Pastor has emphasized the efforts that the administration has completed in the course of 2012 in order to improve the competitiveness of the field, between which the introduction of measures for the reorganization financial of the section, reduction of the taxes, reclamations for an amount of 94 million euros, valorization of the areas, modifications of the concessions in order to adapt them to the current situation, rationalization of the investments publics, freezing of the maximum rates of the services publics, new parameters of quality of the traffic and it completes law enforcement on the ports in relation to the field of the harbour job. The minister has remembered that these measures will be integrated by actions already in course in order to improve the connections are road that railway with the ports.
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Yesterday the Spanish minister of the Public works, Ana Pastor, and the president of governmental agency Puertos of the Estado, José Llorca, has met the representatives of the main national and international enterprises that they invest in the Spanish ports. The objective of the reunion has been that to discuss a series about proposals in order to improve the efficiency and the competitiveness of the harbour field. Moreover the situation of the harbour enterprises in Spain in current the economic context and the aspects is examined on which the harbour entrepreneurs consider that the ministry would have to place attention for a greater efficiency of the ports, in order to reduce the costs and in order to promote the positive trend of the harbour traffic, than in 2012 have marked an increment of 5% about regarding the year precedence attesting itself to 470 million tons of goods. Measures are estimated also in order to strengthen the position of the harbour enterprises on the international scene.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
