AVE entrepreneurs return to the oak almost a decade later to ask to finish the Mediterranean corridor

The Board of Directors of the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs (AVE), the lobby Business that includes about 180 Valencian entrepreneurs such as the president of Mercadona, Juan Roig, and chairman Vicente Boluda, He has returned to his appointment in the Alicante population of the Encina to claim the Mediterranean corridor.

This Alicante town, near the border with the provinces of Valencia, Albacete and Murcia, is a symbolic and epicenter of the claim of the execution of the Mediterranean corridor, and was chosen when in 2016 the #quierocorrector movement was launched because it is the Railway communications knot in the Spanish Mediterranean.

Precisely the Board of AVE considers that The Xàtiva and Encina sectionwhich will allow connecting high speed to the three provinces of the Valencian Community with each other, It is taking longer than technically would have been desirable and possible. It was announced by the government that the works They would be finished at the end of 2022 and on February 2025 they are still not finished.

Since 2016, the Movement has indicated that the completion of the new unique route between Xàtiva and the Encina would allow the current traffic to be transferred and adapt the existing dual route to international width without affecting the rail service.

Currently, the works advance with completion of completion in 2026, allowing the connection in high speed between Alicante, Valencia and Castellón, in addition to facilitating railway traffic from Murcia, Cartagena and Almería to the border.

Likewise, the installation of the third lane for goods between La Encina and Alicante is still pending, including access to the port, whose completion is scheduled for 2027.

Vicente Boluda, president of the Valencian Association of Entrepreneurs (AVE), stressed that, since the claim was launched, businessmen and civil society from all over Spain have been involved and participate in the claim by attending the crowd of acts that have been organized, that the Mediterranean corridor is in the epicenter of the political debate and, therefore, that public responsible assume commitments.

In service 36%

But he has insisted that “we are going to continue checking the execution of the works to end and that the Mediterranean corridor is a reality. From the beginning of the project in 2016, 36% of the 1,300 km of the layout and in work 80%”.

In spite There will be a regional bird in the Valencian Community by connecting Castellón, Valencia and Alicante. The president of AVE has put in value that “the works advance, the investment rhythm is powerful, but we ask not to decline.”

The Valencian Business Looby announces that the first 2025 semiannual check of the corridor will be presented on July 7. For its part, the VIII Business Act for the Mediterranean Corridor of 2025 is scheduled for November 20 in Valencia (Roig Arena) that will coincide in turn with the second semiannual check of the year.