The first commercial expedition between Ceuta and Morocco has managed to completely completed this Tuesday after two previous failed attempts, in which a truck with hygiene products was rejected on the border by the neighboring country. This time, the automobile products that carried the same vehicle did pass. A historical milestone that involves the opening of a merchandise traffic space widely claimed by local entrepreneurs.
This Tuesday was one of those classic ddies in which the city of Ceuta was agitated. When the sun had not yet left, National Police and Civil Guard had already been deployed by more than a dozen points of the town to stop around twenty people, including a member of the Benemérita, within the framework of an anti -drug macrooperation that It ended a stroke with several criminal organizations dedicated to hashish traffic.
Then the city was still oblivious to what was to come, a new attempt to open the desired commercial customs that allows the constant and unlimited traffic of goods between Ceuta and Morocco.
On the way to Tarajal, in the taxis the police operation was commented and they did not stop looking vans and cars of the national body throughout the journey, even leaving in a coordinated manner of their dependencies. These scenes contrasted with absolute tranquility on the border. Without media, without queues, without the usual jaleos of a hot step.
It was not even ten in the morning and the Government delegate, Cristina Pérez, and members of his team, such as the newly appointed chief of Cabinet, Gonzalo Sanz, already waited in the place. Within the facilities, preparing a very complex operation for “administrative” issues, which the State representative in Ceuta had already alluded days ago.
The Foreign Ministry then advanced Pérez, has not captained on this occasion part of the process, understanding that the diplomatic issues between countries were settled, the ‘Gordian knot’ to undo was now focused on paperwork. Pure “problems of walking at home”, documents “that must be updated” and procedures “that escape political control” by “getting limited to the march.”
“We are with the pre-trials,” he alluded to a source close to the process at about twelve in the afternoon. Meanwhile, life kept flowing. Someone asked for a beer in the small wooden planks bar on the beach that shares a name with the border crossing. “We don’t have, there is the Ramadan just around the corner. You have to stop, ”commented the owner. Instead they chose small clients tuna snacks with fresh cheese or turkey chód with Manchego. He also drank a lot of coffee and some tea.
From the cold of the first hours, marked by somewhat dark clouds, he went to the warm noon. The sun warmed the heads of those who expected to pass to the Alauito kingdom, or those who intended to carry out procedures on the border. A dark complexion kid and large headphones of an unpolluted white swarmed with a dancing rhythm, waiting for a colleague who long after leaving, papers in hand, from the facilities to take a taxi. He also passed through the Rotonda also an agent of the Benemérita, who took out an envelope for someone, at the risk of almost twisting his ankle in one of the highway bumps. It was already one and there was no trace of the van. The third attempt, after the two failed from the first and mid -January, seemed to go to nothing.
However, the movements accelerated. The Government Delegation staff began to become visible abroad, telephone in hand, trying to finish solving everything to be able, even, choose to leave the commercial passage open on this crazy Tuesday. At three except ten came the notice. “It comes here.”
It took forty minutes, but at a firm and safe pace, the same truck – the only one of the characteristics that Morocco requires in all of Ceuta – of the Atlantic Live firm and that had already been used in the two failed tests, the line enclosed by The national road to the border. This time he did not carry hygienic paper, but automobile products from the Rodaco firm. In the Spanish section of Tarajal, several members of the delegation were waiting for him, who gave papers to the driver, finalizing with him the last details to his incursion, almost at four in the afternoon, in the tail of vehicles that awaited to enter In Morocco.
The wait was long, but at seven thirty sources involved in the commercial expedition were optimistic, closing the last details and, finally, at eight, the truck left the border area to go to the logistics area of Altos Castillejos, where the last procedures were carried out. With this, a merchandise pass between the Autonomous City and the neighboring country was completed for the first time. Apparently, in the absence of official confirmation, it is about the opening of commercial customs, a longing for local entrepreneurs, which must be proven effective in the next few days. At the moment it seems that a daily vehicle will happen, to progressively increase traffic, as reported by the Government of the Nation.
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