Ponentia develops an industrial and logistical estate 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 area associated with an intermodal railway terminal. The site corresponds to land 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 motorway between exits 22 and 27. It is about three kilometres from the border of the province of Lleida.
Its geographical location, at the foot of the A-22 motorway, adjacent to the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, and close to the port infrastructures of Barcelona and Tarragona on the one hand and the connections with Europe on the other, is shaping up as an optimal area for the consolidation and distribution of goods in the Iberian Peninsula and towards Europe. Particularly in view of the strengthening of the Algeciras-Madrid-Paris high-capacity rail corridor, which will guarantee an efficient connection with the EU for channelling goods from south-west 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 productive areas of Spain, the Ebro Valley. The regions of the Ebro Valley occupy 8% of the national territory and contribute 24% of GDP, mainly in the agri-food sector. These figures position this macro-region as a benchmark at European level.
The implementation of this industrial and logistics sector, with the consequent access by companies to transport intermodality, must 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 top-level industrial and logistics space.
It should be noted that it is planned as a state-of-the-art industrial and logistics area that promotes the implementation of renewable and clean energies on the platform. In addition, it is committed to a sustainability strategy that reduces the environmental impact of industrial activity, through self-sufficiency and self-generation of energy through natural, continuous and inexhaustible sources.
On 15-9-2021, the Government of Aragon agreed to declare the project to set up the "La Melusa-Tamarite" Logistics Platform, promoted by Ponentia Logistics, S.A., in Tamarite de Litera as an Investment of Regional and General Interest of Aragon.
This has led, among other advantages, to urban and administrative procedures being adjusted to very beneficial deadlines and parameters for the development 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 railway terminal given the great potential for growth in this area. Occupying an area of some 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 metres in length, shunting shafts, heavy vehicle entry/exit facilities, customs, logistics area for containers and railway services area.
On 19 October 2021, the presidency of Adif issued a resolution authorising 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 by replacing traditional road transport with rail transport, the terminal is planned with a clear strategy of sustainability, driven 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 lorry to their destination, with the limitations and the economic and environmental costs that this type of transport entails. The exporters themselves have expressed the demand of their clients to use more efficient and environmentally friendly means of transport such as rail.