The Minister of Economy, Employment and Digital Transformation, Guillermo Santamaría, highlighted “the decisive moment of Extremadura for its logistical development with the consolidation of the strategic link with Spain, Portugal and Europe”, on the occasion of the inauguration of the I Extremadura Logistics Meeting this Thursday, October 31, in Badajoz.
Santamaría began his speech by showing solidarity with the missing, the deceased and those suffering the consequences of Dana, and by valuing the efforts of all those involved in the rescues, “among them the reinforcements sent from Extremadura.”
The conferences are organized by the Association for the Progress of Management, APD, which the Minister of the Economy congratulated “for the work they do in scheduling meetings like this which enrich us and make us a Extremadura open to the world from the point of view of vision of infrastructure, business, innovation, sustainability and talents”.
“It is a significant achievement that nearly a hundred leaders of logistics-related companies are gathered here today. I salute the 13 businessmen from the port of Seville who join us today and who, I hope, will see the excellent opportunities that Extremadura offers to invest”, said Santamaría.
The Minister of Economy recalled the economic data of Extremadura which show “that we are converging with Spain and Europe, with unemployment data at historically low levels and highest affiliation levels, it “There have never been so many people working in Extremadura and, above all, so many women.” “.
From the Ministry of Economy, Employment and Digital Transformation, “we are focusing on an investment attraction policy based on Don’t wait for investors but go get them and, without going any further, our recent mission to China resulted in two important milestones: the signing of confidentiality agreements with Shanghai HIUV New Material and Shanghai LUM Brand Management, two Chinese companies interested in establishing themselves in the region.
“We are concerned and busy with our great undertakings and those to come, without forgetting the small and medium” said Santamaría. In this sense, he referred to the beginning of the process of awarding the 13 commercial warehouses available in the Badajoz Logistics Platform, with four formal requests, in addition to more than 20 requests for information on the available plots .
“Thanks to the listening from which our policies emerge, we launched the Transport Bonus aid, which for the first time a LACC did from the Employment services”, underlined the advisor and expressed his satisfaction, because it recorded 2,438 requests. , 396 from B, 1,270 from C and 871 from C+ and E. “We are very happy with this excellent reception because we believe it will have an impact on offering more employability options to Extremadurans and on alleviating the shortage of drivers for companies in the sector. transport sector”.
