ASECAM to challenge decision on Teruel-Sagunto rail double track
The district's business association will file objections after the Transport Ministry ruled out an electrified double track for that railway section.
Camp de Morvedre is not giving up on the electrified double track for the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor. ASECAM has announced it will challenge the informative study by the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, which ruled out that infrastructure for the Teruel-Sagunto section, joining objections already announced by the CEV and by business groups in Teruel. This rail corridor links the ports of Valencia, Sagunto and Castellón with inland Spain, but its Sagunto-Teruel section has been stuck with an informative study outdated since 2015, backing the association's claim of chronic underinvestment. ASECAM president Cristina Plumed regrets that, after more than a year with rail traffic cut for construction work, the Ministry's response turns out to be the opposite of what was expected, at a time of strong industrial growth in the district. ASECAM argues that giving up the double track holds back competitiveness, reindustrialisation and transport decarbonisation along a corridor key to Camp de Morvedre's industrial base. The association also points out that Zaragoza's logistics hub is forced to reroute its freight through Tarragona, even though Sagunto is, geographically, its natural outlet to the sea. According to ASECAM, with additional background from Wikipedia on the Cantabrian-Mediterranean Corridor.