Presented the strategic action lines of the port of Santander
Santander 15-01-16. The president of the Port Authority of Santander, Jaime González, accompanied by the president of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla and the Minister of Industry, Innovation, Commerce and Tourism, Francisco Martín, presented this morning the actions that will define the future of the port in the port in the next years. González stressed that, in the short term, it is intended, among other things, to increase the number of scales by Brittany Ferries, improve the railway operability of Muriedas-Puerto or optimize the accessibility and storage capacity of the port facilities. In addition, he assured that, in this period, the production of Santander Coated Solutions will begin, the container/MAFI traffic will be enhanced in a short distance and new traffic will be incorporated, in addition to continuing with the development of the agreement that the different administrations have in the maritime front scope.
Regarding the actions that are planned to be carried out in the medium term, that is, between 2017 and 2019, the president of the port indicated some such as the impulse of the logistics activity in the logistics storage zone (ZAL), the increase in the Roro traffic of general merchandise or the attraction of ships that allow the promotion of mixed container and roro traffic. In addition, he highlighted the importance of expanding the Ferries Terminal, continuing with the development of port infrastructure and getting the port to be prepared to meet the demand for supplies of liquefied natural gas.
In the long term, between the 2020s and 2015, the head of the port facilities stressed the importance of Santander being a primary node of the basic trans -European network network, of making the railway capacity 900 meters of length and 1000 tons of weight and explore the need for a dry port, in addition to having a container terminal. He also affected the need to improve the drafts, consolidate the port as a connection route with Centro Europe and to successfully finish the urban rearrangement of the Santander Port Maritime Front.