Free way to the urban master plan of the logistics terminal of the port of BCN

The Generalitat, the city councils of Barcelona and the Prat de Llobregat and the Port of Barcelona they have agreed a Urban Master Plan (PDU) for the Intermodal Logistics Terminal which should allow the construction of four new railway terminals to improve port infrastructure. The plan, which will involve around 600 million euros, will allow the development of the necessary infrastructures to boost rail connections with goods from the port of Barcelona, ​​reducing truck traffic in the metropolitan area and reducing pollution. As a result of the urban transformation of the area around the course of the Llobregat river, the expansion of green areas is planned.

The announcement of the agreement for the promotion of the urban plan also gives way to an 18-day process of public information starting on Friday and that could result in a definitive approval of the plan in the first quarter of 2023. The objective of these infrastructures is to promote the distribution of goods by rail, which would go from 15% of the current total to 30%. The 600 million investment, increases the 400 million initially planned, since they include, in addition to the roads and accesses, the interconnection terminals. The ultimate goal will be to transfer 400,000 containers from ships to trains and reduce freight traffic by road.

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The agreement, reached after two years of joint work by the Administrations (something that was not possible, for example in the case of the Barcelona Airport expansion), was presented at a press conference by the President of the Port, Damià Calvet; the second deputy mayor of Barcelona, ​​Janet Sanz; the mayor of El Prat, Lluís Mijoler; and the general director of Spatial Planning and Urbanism of the Generalitat, Agustí Serra. The set of improvements planned for the Port of Barcelona and the intermodal logistics terminals will involve an approximate investment for the treasury of around 600 million euros, for the construction of the new road and rail accesses, but also for the dispatch and reception terminals of goods , with effect also in Morrot, Can Tunis and La Llagosta. Calvet stressed that all these infrastructures, which could be finished around 2025 after the tender procedures in 2023, are part of the future Mediterranean Corridor, for which work has also been carried out on 750-meter-long railway separators in the Barcelona-Zaragoza axis (30 million investment).

This PDU wants to make possible the interconnection of six railway terminals (the four that must be built plus two already executed) in the Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) of the port and also plans to relocate 20.84 hectares of green areas already foreseen in the current urban planning . Around 15 million euros have been foreseen in environmental compensation. Despite not being included in the master plan, the execution of the work will make it possible to transform the lower part of the Montjuïch maritime strip so that it is accessible to pedestrians and bicycles from the city, after the disappearance of the Morrot routes. From an urban point of view, it will also mean the creation of a green corridor around the Llobregat and Montjuïc agricultural park.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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