The Port of Cartagena triples its border inspection capacity with a new PCF to boost competitiveness.

 

La Port Authority of Cartagena (APC) has presented to agricultural organizations and companies in the fruit and vegetable sector Murcia the details of your new Border Control Post (BCP), an infrastructure that is expected to be operational in the coming months. The announcement was made during the 17th edition of Fruit Attraction in Madrid, where the port delegation has sought to promote the facility as a fundamental axis for the foreign trade agri-food.

 

APC Chairman, Pedro Pablo Hernandez, highlighted that this “New PIF at Santa Lucía dock which will increase competitiveness, food safety and reduce waiting times by tripling the inspection gates for fruit and vegetable products, going from four loading docks to catorce".

 

The total investment for this project amounts to 6,1 millones de eurosThe new PCF will concentrate in a single building all the services involved in border control, prioritizing the innovation and the provision of more spacesHernández explained that this aims to "improve regional fruit and vegetable trade with the rest of the world as a consolidated logistics and commercial platform." The modern infrastructure will guarantee greater operational efficiency for health inspectors, who will have access to... quality facilities and latest technology.

 

The president of the APC also recalled the activation of a Border Control Post Management Platform In recent years, designed to respond to new legal requirements, offering greater agility in merchandise inspections, better coordination and a higher one transparency and traceability.

 

Hernández was accompanied at the fair by the Minister of Water, Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Sara Rubira, and the mayor of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, highlighting the importance of this infrastructure for the Region.

 

First-class infrastructure and services

 

The Port Authority's commercial department also highlighted the advantages of the facility for the sector. The Port of Cartagena is ideally located geostrategic privileged that connects it with producers and consumers globally through its shipping lines. It also offers one of the more competitive prices within the Spanish port system and a stevedoring service fully liberalized.

 

La Horticultural Terminal It has a pier of 405 meters in length and 11,25 meters of draft, RO-RO berthing, cranes with a capacity of 6 to 30 tons and cold stores up to 12.504,24m2 with capacity for 10.000 pallets in cold storage. A network of reefer connections and specialized logistics services that guarantee the cold chain integrity from origin to destination.

 

Looking to the future, the port is promoting strategic projects such as Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) and the multipurpose terminal Barlomar, conceived with criteria of eco-efficiency e intermodality to be able to receive the largest container ships in the world. Additionally, the “Ecological Cold”, which will seek to take advantage of the excess cold to reduce costs and emissions, which places Cartagena to vanguard of port sustainability.

 

With these investments and projects, the Port of Cartagena is consolidated not only as a platform for fruit and vegetable export reference, but as a Mediterranean logistics hub prepared to respond to the demands of an increasingly competitive and sustainable global market.