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the regional ports of the Catalogna generate a annual volume of transactions of a billion of euro
the activities of the field produce Gross Domestic Product 0.5% of the Catalan
June 17, 2015
The ports of the Generality of Catalogna generate a annual economic impact in the region pairs to a billion of euro and support 12.000 places of job, that is the activities in fields which the peach, the aquaculture, navy, the catering, the industry (ship yards and dry docks), the commerce, tourism and the services produce to Gross Domestic Product 0.5% of the Catalan and 0.4% of the occupation in Catalogna. It has emphasized Santi Vila the Vicente, councilman to the Territory and the sustainability of the government of the Catalogna, inaugurating monday a convention on the cruises in Costa Brava in the course of which he has listed to the main conclusions of a study realized from the public society Ports de the Generalitat.
The study analyzes the economic impact of every euro generated from the harbour activities, than it is translate in two euro in the general economy. Moreover every person occupied directly in the ports generates others 1,7 new places of work. Regarding the relationship between the economic impact of the public sectors and private, the study finds that an euro invested from the public sector in the field of the management and the harbour investments is translate in 24,5 euros of private economic activities. In the same way, to a place of work in the public sector they correspond 23 places of job in private associate-economic fields.
Villa has evidenced nature dynamic of system harbour Catalan, that it is constituted by 45 ports with exclusion of those of Barcelona and Tarragona that are of general interest, and has remembered that the government currently has in phase of elaboration the new law on the ports that - it has specified - the objective has to identify the ports "as a real economic engine key for the future of the Country". With such scope - it has explained - the new law will introduce modifications in order to do so as that the concessorio system becomes more flexible and incentives the investments.
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