The institutional headquarters of the Port of Tarragona has hosted the latest session of the ‘Mirades Metropolitanes’ cycle, organized jointly with the Diputació de Tarragona and very focused on analyzing the deep metropolitan dimension of the Port Authority and its indispensable role as an engine of development and articulation of the territory. The president of Tarragona, Santiago J Castellà, presented the Port Authority’s strategy focused on territorial transformation through the future challenges of the Port of Tarragona which “is no longer explained only by the works to gain land from the sea, but by the value chains it generates to create wealth and work for the territory,” stated Santiago J Castellà.
The president of the Port of Tarragona made it clear that “we are not only the port of the city but of the territory. Our goal is not to make a lot of money, it is to create activity in our hinterland,” admitted Santiago J Castellà. The port president emphasized that this spirit of service to the territory, based on a logistical activity that unites sea and land and industry and services, allows the port to “be a space for consensus to reflect on the territory and detect opportunities to generate added value,” indicated Castellà.
For her part, Genoveva Climent stated that the port “articulates the territory, generates added value and is a space of opportunities,” said the commercial director of the Port Authority. Climent explained that to the already existing value chains, the port aspires to add new ones: floating wind power which brings talent, technology, innovation, jobs…”it could be the next great industrial chain of the territory,” stated Genoveva Climent, who also highlighted the possibility of creating value chains in the field of advanced digitalization, in which the port can also establish itself as an R&D hub as it has opened the door for the creation of new companies, collaboration with universities, etc.
Triple alliance with Open Arms
Tarragona City Council, Diputación and Port Authority, reaffirm their alliance with Open Arms. This week Tarragona hosts the NGO’s ship and part of its team. Once again, schoolchildren and families will be able to learn about the work carried out by this entity. Today the agreement was signed in the presence of the mayor, Rubén Viñuales, the president of the Port Authority, Santiago J Castellà, and the deputy and delegate for people and talent of the Diputación de Tarragona, Vale Pino. The founder and director of Open Arms, Óscar Camps, thanked the warm welcome that Tarragona offers him every year. “The solid commitment of these three entities, both for economic support, as well as pedagogical and social, is as or more important than the money,” commented Óscar Camps himself.
