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The Valencia regional government presents its logistics strategy at Logitrans

Target for 2015: 15 million m² logistics purposes

Drafting Interempresas01/12/2008

December 1, 2008

Between 2008 and 2015 the Generalitat Valenciana intends to develop this community by creating a network of logistics parks, improving its connections with Europe, enhancing axis logistics Comunitat Valenciana-Madrid and performing actions integrated with the generation of floor to entrepreneurial activities carried out by the public company Sepivalogistically.

Valencia is located in the Centre of the Mediterranean corridor, a key location for the traffic of goods in the South of Europe and Madrid. In addition, currently the ports located in the autonomous community generate a total traffic of 272.682.768 tonnes per year 65,17 percent of the total mainland. The forecast for goods traffic on the Mediterranean corridor in 2015 is 163.708 tonnes per day by road and 28,444 tonnes per day by rail.

Within the strategies of logistics development of the region of Valencia stands out that of the creation of

8 multimodal centres of storage, handling, processing and transport of goods that will form large logistics parks

Better communications with Europe

One of the main points of the strategic plan of the Valencian Generalitat is the improvement of connections with Europe. This improvement happens for the empowerment of rail transport, the enlargements in the three port entities in 5 ports, support for road transport, but above all implementation of a new airport to be added to the Valencia and Alicante: Castellón.

The province of Castellón is located at a radius of 50 kilometres of the Castellón airport, which will be connected both with the interior, through the CV-10, with the coast, linking with the AP-7 and N-340. This airport will have a runway of 2700 metres in length, expandable to 4,000, and 45 meters in width. It is expected to house commercial flights, mostly from tourism.

Creation of a network of logistics parks

Within the strategies of logistics development of the region of Valencia stands out that of the creation of 8 multimodal centres of storage, handling, processing and transport of goods that will form large logistics parks. The objective is to get up to 15 million square metres in the service of the transport and logistics in the horizon of the year 2015. These parks will have a strategic location, with direct connection of 4 of them with the ports and the rail support, allowing the whole Valencian productive sector to be connected by road, less than 1 hour in heavy vehicle, with any of them.

This year Sepiva, public enterprise of the Generalitat Valenciana, has launched the Plan of development of business parks based on a new model of planning, design and management. The objective that marked the Generalitat by 2012 was to increase the supply of industrial land in 22 million square meters. Until 2007 already have been executed 10 million square metres, to be provided for the implementation of the remaining surface during the period 2008-2012. Within these actions integrated with the generation of soil, the Generalitat and Sepiva already have 4.015.385 square metres of parks in marketing: Tibi, Xixona, Alacalá de Xivert, Utiel and Parc Sagunt I. For its part, 5.454.252 square meters are underway, in parks such as Anna, Carcaixent, Llutxent, Siete Aguas, Monovar, Sax, Tibi II phase, Segorbe, Villena and Utiel phase II. In study, it has 8.528.000 square meters.

The Logistics Park of Valencia covers an area of more than 1 million m².

Logistics Park of Valencia in Ribarroja

With an area of 1.121.426 square meters, the Logistics Park of RIBA-Roja, one of the Generalitat projects presented in the exhibition Logitrans, is the first comprehensive logistics center of Valencia for the carriage of goods by road. This means that it shall meet in a same space all services for the freight transport sector, concentrating transport agencies, warehouses, restaurateurs, including classrooms and rest rooms.

The Logistics Park is located next to the link of two of the main roads of the Valencian Community, A-7 and A-3, in the municipal terms of Ribarroja del Turia and Loriguilla. With an investment of close to 100 million euros, the Park will encourage the creation of more than 500 new jobs, reaching the Park's 3,000 workers.

The main objectives of this project are: the comprehensive Center of reference for the road transport goods; convert in the Medullary logistical hub of the Valencian Community, for its direct connection to the main Valencian communications nodes; remove the containers and trucks of the urban landscape of Valencia; meet demands of the community associations, which have become as well to the needs of companies engaged in the carriage of goods and carriers; provide security and protection through a defined space for parking heavy vehicles dedicated to the transport of dangerous goods, which in some cases, are still stationed on streets of industrial parks in the metropolitan area; become Centre base to boost exports from the region of Valencia road through the main management and freight companies.

The parque empresarial El Campaner of Alcalá de Xivert is marketing stage.

Business parks in marketing

Business parks that are in a phase of marketing, presented in the exhibition Logitrans, include that of El Campaner in Alcalá de Xivert, El Espartal in Xixona and again Tollo in Utiel.

The Campaner is situated next to the AP-7, 60 km from Castellón and Valencia 125. The total area of the Park is 228.666 square meters, 137.186 of which industrial purposes. 67 Plots from 820 to the 5.875 square meters are available. The Park is equipped with water, energy and new technologies in communications.

New Tollo of Utiel, 446.670 square meters Park, highlights the excellent communications that are available to be found in the A-3 Madrid-Valencia motorway, 83 kilometers from the capital Valencia and Madrid 267. It has 16 plots of 1693 to 10,454 square meters.

The strength of traditional sectors in Xixona has necessitated the creation of the Park of El Espartal, located 25 kilometers from Alicante and Valencia 185. With 27 available plots of between 900 and Évora square meters, the total area of the Park is 192.384 square meters, 102.432 of them for industrial purposes.