THE Junta of Andalusia launched this Tuesday a call for tenders for the works of urbanization of the third, and last, phase her logistics park from El Higuerón, which will provide the added benefit of directly connecting this complex to the ADIF freight station. As ABC moved forward, the start of the hiring process was imminent.
The tender document establishes the project development schedule. Interested companies will have until January 10 to submit their proposals. The Ministry of Development hopes to select a construction company considering that the start of work be in March 2025 -It is the forecast, as long as no incident occurs in the course of the process, as a resource. From the moment the machines land in El Higuerón Park, the work will last eight months. This leaves the time horizon of conclusion of the action of expansion in the end of 2025.
The call for tenders indicates that the budget is 5.39 millionco-financed with European Feder funds. This amount will be reduced in practice with the offers made by companies aspiring to carry out the development. It is not in vain that a company participating in this tender can get a maximum of one hundred points. Among them, seventy will correspond to the economic proposal.
This service will facilitate the marketing of 19,678 meters squares of logistics packages intended for “small and medium operators”, according to the documentation of this contractualization process. They will help increase the land that Córdoba can offer to companies in the sector at a key moment.
The potential of capital in the field of freight transport is destined to be definitively released with the implementation here of the Army Logistics Basewhose urbanization works will be completed in March 2025 and which should be fully operational at the end of 2028.
This work will also allow expand the parking lot of heavy vehicles in 56 additional spaces, or 6,928 additional square meters. In total, the last sector of this complex measures 41,364 meters. To the land reserves already mentioned, we must add the 10,715 which will be occupied by the road network and the 4,043 of green spaces.
In the Commission’s press release concerning the call for tenders for this work, yesterday we again insisted on the importance of the intervention, including the execution of direct connection of the El Higueron Park with the entourage season of merchandise form. The regional government recalled that, although this logistics zone has rail intermodality options since its commissioning in 2010, given the proximity of ADIF facilities, goods movements must be carried out by the external road .
The government delegate emphasizes that they are working to create a thousand jobs when the entire center is in place.
The urbanization of this third phase, underlined the Regional Administration, will allow, once achieved, said movement “to take place indoors, reducing the necessary transport to a minimum.” This will facilitate “more efficient modal exchange”. “This work will make it possible to maximize the potential of the El Higuerón intermodal node,” added the director of Juanma Moreno. In other words, it will be possible to carry out a cheaper freight transport And fast.
He government delegate of the AdviceAdolfo Molina, in statements to ABC, evaluated the offer for the development of the third phase of the logistics complex, focusing first on the economic aspect. He assured that the Andalusian Government was working to “achieve create a thousand jobswith the commissioning of this entire business park.
Entrance to the Cordoba Logistics Park
He alluded to the fact that, as reported by the Ministry of Development, this space has installed companies that have generated 500 jobs and his estimates are that the full commissioning of this freight transport core “will generate approximately one a thousand jobs. This is not a trivial question for a capital which is improving its levels of Stopbut where this scourge still remains serious problem. The INE recently reported, which, with data from 2023, places Córdoba as the eleventh city in the country with the highest unemployment rate: 21.1% – this means that out of a hundred people who wanted to work, 21 couldn’t do it. -.
Molina He added that “our province is being consolidation already like a logistics node strategic in Andalusia and Europe“. And he emphasized, as they did from Seville, that the works on the last stage of the park “will allow its direct connection with the El Higuerón freight rail terminal, with which we take a new step in the strategy [de desarrollo] of the Córdoba Board of Directors.
First phase successful
As for the other two phases of this park, are in a very different situation. THE second is located in a ‘dead end» after the sale to Montepino, a logistics giant, fell through. This operator expressed interest at the end of 2020 to acquire the 91,000 square meters of said second phase, while they were still underexploited. In March 2022, Fomento reported that this company had made a pre-reservation of these lands.
The second phase, undeveloped, is in a “dead end” after the sale of its 91,000 square meters in Montepino did not go through.
He even worked on the landing of Amazon, but, in the second half of 2022, the e-commerce giant has ruled out landing in Córdoba. Montepino is finally not finished with the land and they continue to be the property of the Régie which places them on the market (for sale or rental) without developing them. Of course, any operation is subject to a condition: Development explained that, for the definitive commercialization of these soils, a prior archaeological activity is necessary to free the land from charges. The Council said yesterday that the second phase “is currently immersed in a series of archaeological works”.
THE first step of this logistics park is completed and fully occupied (82,629 square meters). Of course, it must be remembered that it was not until the PP took over the presidency of the Executive Board in 2019 that this logistics complex launched in 2010 experienced a profound revitalization and its attractiveness skyrocketed.
For this, the Government of Juanma Moreno active various measures this made the soils of El Higuerón an object of desire for the goods transport sector: they freed the land from archaeological precautions after an investment of 800,000 euros; businesses were allowed to buy land; and plot sizes were made more flexible.
