lundi 20 octobre 2008

"The agreement will boost the traffic between the two Mediterranean cities"

The Port of Barcelona will have its own logistic area in the new Tangier-Med Port in Tangier, Morocco, on an area of ten hectares that will be at the disposal of companies operative in Catalonia. The concession agreement for the area, which has a duration of 25 years, will be signed by the president of the Port of Barcelona, Jordi Valls (photo), and his Moroccan counterpart responsible for the Tangier Mediterranean Special Agency Said Elhadi, this week during the official visit to Morocco of the president of the regional government of Cataloania, Jose Montilla.
According to the municipality’s sources cited by the media, the agreement will offer an advantage to the customers of the Port of Barcelona and will boost the traffic between the two Mediterranean cities.
The fast economic and industrial development of the Tangier-Tetouan Region, in the northern part of Morocco, only 14 kilometres from the Spanish coasts, favours the landing on the Moroccan territory of Spanish companies attracted by costs which are as much as ten times lower than those in South European Countries.
Montilla will lead a delegation of a high number of Catalan entrepreneurs, as well as the regional delegation which will include vice president Carod Rovira and the councillors for innovation and
for agriculture.