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The port of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bone of the most important and largest and most active around the Mediterranean, will open a rail corridor to carry goods by rail to the rest of Europe.
think this is one of the few ideas he needed yet the smooth and efficient port with the city of Barcelona. The connection will boost the activity of Barcelona with three convoys per week from February and by AVE transport goods to Europe. Renfe, SNCF agreement placed the burden in Lyon, where AVE is distributed in the entire continent.

Barcelona has just taken a new step towards becoming a major distribution center for goods to central and northern Europe. A deal driven by the Port Authority of Barcelona (APB) between RENFE and SNCF (the French network operator) will create, from Feb. 8, a rail corridor between the port of Barcelona and the Port of Lyon. From there the cargo may be easily distributed to other European countries, as in the French city will be connected to the network of high speed, continental AVE.

The agreement for the new link was announced yesterday by the chairman of the APB, Jordi Valls, in Hong Kong, which is conducting several business missions. The creation of the corridor will give a strong impetus to Barcelona as a port of entry and exit of southern Europe, with distribution across the continent. Valls noted that, for now, there will be no increase in operations, but insisted that the agreement is very important for the future growth of new connections with Lyon puerto.La be made by the conventional route - to change trains at border by the different wide - with a distance of 600 kilometers, and from there link to the French high speed trains, the TGV. The route will run three times a week, at night, lasting about nine hours. The agreement will strengthen the position of the Catalan capital, which will compete mainly with the Atlantic port of Antwerp in Belgium, as well as with French and Mediterranean in Marseille. Valls

Hong Kong trading on the fringes of the award of the first container terminal expansion port on the dock Prat - Terminal Catalunya, with the majority of the giant Hutchison Port Holdings - which will start operating at partially in 2010 and will be fully operational in 2013. Hutchinson has not yet decided its final investment in the terminal of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut Valls, who yesterday visited the headquarters of the company along with Mayor Jordi Hereu, anticipated to be higher than expected, it will be semi-automatic and will occupy 93 hectares reclaimed sea \u200b\u200bwith a 1,500-berth self metros.El pact Wednesday closed the APB was to the port of Barcelona Beijing for hosting a large gathering of Chinese forwarders next year, with a contract until 2013. The agreement is crucial to the port by stepping container operations.

The ABS works to attract new traffic between Europe and Asia. Now, only a quarter of the flow of goods between the two continents that pass through the Suez Canal runs from southern Europe. Barcelona move 35% of traffic between Spain and Asia, and 38% in China, but wants to expand the quota.

This is the development of an infrastructure that has to do with an area so important to the city of Barcelona as it is the port, which now also able to export goods by train and not just on wheels, as it was the only way to do so far.