Castilla y León wants to play the game of logistics of the future, for which it will equip itself with the first strategy that will plan the actions of the Community until 2030 and with which it aspires to be a reference node at national and European level, taking advantage of its location. This document, the development of which began several mandates ago, It is finished and ready to be presented at an event in Valladolid on December 2.
The Council, as sources from the Ministry of Mobility and Digital Transformation explain to Ical, intends that The Logistics Strategy (2024-2030) brings together companies and agents in the sector in order to bring together the greatest possible consensus, for which a day was organized during which this “road map” will be drawn up which will then have to be approved by the Governing Council.
Mobility, in addition, aims to do pedagogy with the Logistics Strategy in the different provinces of the Community, since territorial conflicts have always arisen around this issue, an exclusive competence of Castilla y León, according to the Statute of Autonomy, which until now had been articulated through the CyLog network and its insertion in the Atlantic Corridor, of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
This strategy will become the reference framework that will integrate all the policies of Castilla y León in terms of land promotion and logistical arrangements. In addition, it will do so by establishing the organizational lines of the sector and will take care of the marketing and planning of infrastructure and services. All this with the aim of attracting new businesses and promoting the consolidation and expansion of existing ones.
In a few weeks, the Ministry will complete the work begun under the mandate of Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones when he commissioned Deloitte Consulting, in March 2021, to prepare it (2020-2028). The former head of Mobility, María González Corral, took over, who began a series of phases and days of work with the different agents involved to finalize a document, already extended until 2030, which was finally completed by the team of José Luis Sanz Merino.
Atlantic Corridor Master Plan
At the same time, the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility plans to soon present the Atlantic Corridor Master Plan in Castile and León, after having done so in Galicia, Asturias or Navarre, among other communities. This document will come into existence once the new revised regulation of the trans-European transport network has been approved in June and published in July in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Precisely, the commissioner of the Atlantic Corridor, José Antonio Sebastián, celebrated the fact that Castilla y León is moving forward and launching a logistical strategy to manage an area that, according to him, is part of the competences of the Community, as he insisted until present on the fact that he would be missing an instrument. of this type.
In addition, he highlighted that the Castile and León strategy will soon be complemented by the Atlantic Corridor Master Plan, the progress of which was already presented in March 2023 in Valladolid. It will detail current and planned actions in rail and road matters to comply with what is established by Brussels, both in terms of the basic network (2030), the expanded network (2040) and the global network (2050).
