Ponentia develops an industrial and logistics park in Tamarite de la Litera
The project is structured around two major platforms: an industrial and logistics platform and a rail terminal with dry port functions.
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Ponentia Logistics, S.A. is developing the implementation of an industrial and logistics zone associated with an intermodal rail terminal. The site corresponds to farms located on undeveloped land, entirely within the municipality of Tamarite de Litera and affecting a total area of approximately 1,400,000 m2.
The land is located at the foot of the old N-240 with direct access to the A-22 highway between exits 22 and 27. About three kilometers from the border of the province of Lleida.
Its geographical location, at the foot of the A-22 highway, adjacent to the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, and close to the port infrastructures of Barcelona and Tarragona on the one hand, and to the connections with Europe on the other, makes it an optimal area for the consolidation and distribution of goods in the Iberian Peninsula and to Europe. Particularly taking into account the strengthening of the Algeciras-Madrid-Paris high-capacity rail corridor, which will guarantee an efficient connection with the EU to channel goods from southwest Europe and North Africa. In addition to being a strategic point between the Mediterranean and Central rail corridors.
This project will serve a large number of companies located in one of the most important production areas in Spain, the Ebro Valley. The regions of the Ebro Valley occupy 8% of the national territory and contribute 24% of GDP, mostly in the agri-food sector. These data position this macro region as a benchmark at the European level.
The implementation of this industrial and logistics sector, with the consequent access by companies to intermodal transport, should allow access, improving delivery times, efficiency and sustainability of transport, to new markets that are increasingly demanding with these premises. This intermodality defines this sector as a first class industrial and logistic space.
It should be noted that it is projected as a state-of-the-art industrial and logistics zone that promotes the implementation of renewable and clean energies on the platform. In addition, we are committed to a sustainability strategy that reduces the environmental impact of industrial activity through self-supply and self-generation of energy from natural, continuous and inexhaustible sources.
On 15-9-2021, the Government of Aragon agreed to declare the project for the implementation of the Logistics Platform «La Melusa-Tamarite», promoted by Ponentia Logistics, S.A., in Tamarite de Litera as an Investment of Autonomic Interest and of General Interest of Aragon.
This has led, among other advantages, to the fact that the urban and administrative processing is adjusted to deadlines and parameters that are very beneficial for the promotion framed within the urban planning figure included in the Territorial Planning Law of Aragon.
RAILWAY TERMINAL:
On the same platform, Ponentia Logistics, S.A., is jointly developing a high-capacity rail terminal given the great potential for growth in the area. Occupying an area of about 17 hectares, it allows the construction of the appropriate railway facilities, with a 5-track reception beam, siding for convoys, tracks for simultaneous loading of up to 4 trains of 750 meters in length, maneuvering handle, entry/exit facilities for heavy vehicles, customs, logistics area for containers and railway services area.
On October 19, 2021, the presidency of Adif issued a resolution authorizing the connection to the General Interest Railway Network of the railway terminal planned by Ponentia Logistics, S.A. in the municipality of Tamarite de Litera.
Beyond the clear positive effect of the transformation of the means of transport, replacing traditional road transport with rail transport, the terminal is planned with a clear sustainability strategy, powered by renewable energies, with no impact on the climate and the atmosphere, contributing to the reduction of the carbon footprint.
Currently, many exporting companies in the agri-food sector are transporting their production for export to northern and central Europe by truck to their destination, with the limitations and the economic and environmental costs that this type of transport entails. The exporters themselves have expressed their customers demand that they use more efficient and environmentally friendly means of transport, such as rail.