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The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, believes that the inclusion of Cartagena in the Mediterranean railway corridor, announced yesterday by the Minister Pastor, is a historic commitment by Cartagena and its port and serve our city to be incorporated from the outset to lines leading European freight transport.
Barreiro has welcomed this decision also involves putting a deadline for the arrival of high-speed passenger, and that the new road will have mixed traffic between Murcia and Cartagena and will be exclusive for goods only between Cartagena and tailings.
The Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, shape yesterday that the ministry plans are complete from Cartagena a high-speed goods that will be completed in 2016.
The line has its southernmost link in the port of Cartagena and travels north across the Mediterranean linking its major ports.
The mayor has said that Cartagena will be by the time the European port southernmost in this pan-European network of goods and their geographical position places it in a strategic location close to the shipping routes linking America, Asia and northern Europe through Suez.
The section between Cartagena and Murcia will accommodate high-speed trains for freight and passengers with the electrification of the current line and the third line available to allow the passage of trains with international gauge
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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