The new roundabout providing access from the RM-B37 road to the industrial estate of Cotillas Towers where logistics platform "Consum Cooperativa" sits will be ready in spring.
This was stated on Monday morning January 11 the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructures, Francisco Barnabas, during the signing ceremony for the award of the works, which will have an investment of 400,000 euros and a deadline of four months .
"This road construction will serve the polygon that has become one of the main logistics industrial areas in the region," said the counselor.
Bernabe said that this infrastructure "facilitate access and mobility of more than 65,000 heavy vehicles annually are directed to the industrial zone of the municipality".
The ceremony was also attended Torreño mayor, Domingo Coronado, and the president of the company "Transportes Agustin Fuentes e Hijos, SL" Augustine Fuentes.
This is a roundabout 66 meters outside diameter, with three lanes four meters each and hard shoulders of one meter indoor and outdoor and underground medium.
A roundabout that will link the RM-B37 in its 3'960 kilometer industrial zone this avenue through which also Augustine Fuentes and other industrial spaces will soon develop the local company "Transportes Agustin Fuentes e Hijos, SL".
In addition, as part of these actions create a road 900 meters long that will connect these polygons with this roundabout as a road linked to the development of those areas of economic activity is planned.
To construct these roads connecting the logistics center with this roundabout, "Transport Agustin Fuentes e Hijos, SL" and the string "Consum" provide two million euros.
An expanding area
It is recalled that some improvement work to adapt and widening of the road Mula were conducted in order to adapt the road connecting with the highway west to a speed of 80 kilometers per hour in 2009.
A project that allowed decongest the urban area of ​​heavy vehicle traffic and promote industrial development by becoming a communication channel for companies like these that are now going to see improved their working environment.
"Consum Cooperativa" account in Las Torres de Cotillas with facilities that are engaged in the distribution of dry, refrigerated and frozen logistics center generates more than 2,000 direct and indirect jobs.
For its part, "Transport Agustin Fuentes e Hijos, SL" is a local business group that has been placed at the head of the European land transport, with offices in Base 2000-Lorquí (Murcia), Castejon (Navarra) and Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña).
It founded a quarter century ago and more than 3,000 national and international customers located across Europe, has a fleet of almost 1,300 vehicles among themselves and autónomos-, a significant volume of business growth and direct management of 90% load operating in the area of ​​the peninsula.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas