The Government of Aragon, through the public company Aragón Plataforma Logística (APL), has turned the Autonomous Community into an international benchmark as a European logistics hub and is already working on the offer of new large parcels to respond to the growing demand of the logistics and industrial market. In the constant work to update its offer, APL is already investing in the second expansion of the Zaragoza Logistics Platform (Plaza), the flagship of the sector in Aragon, and in the creation of a new public platform in the province, the Logistics Platform de Zuera (PlZuera), which will have 1.5 million square meters in 2024. Both projects try to respond to the continuous demand for new plots in the Autonomous Community; in particular, large parcels.
The Zaragoza Logistics Platform, with 13.5 million square metres, is the largest logistics facility in Europe. More than 550 companies with 16,500 active employees are currently established in it, and its new expansion will allow the addition of 2.4 million gross square meters for the installation of new companies. This action is one of the priorities of the regional Executive, since it will allow attracting new investments linked to logistics activity in the Aragonese capital, where giants such as the multinationals Amazon, Inditex, BSH, Decathlon or MSC are already installed.
For its part, the new Zuera Platform will have 150 hectares of new urbanized plots between 2024 and 2025, many of them with rail connection. In fact, Zuera already has its first client, Grupo Jorge, which will occupy 35 hectares with a project that will involve an investment of more than 60 million euros and will create the first 192 jobs.
Both projects are priorities for the Community and are being processed as Autonomous General Interest Plans (PIGA). The plans and declarations of Autonomous Interest are a territorial policy instrument created by the Government of Aragon with the aim of expediting the implementation of activities of special territorial significance and that converts the Community into a business friendy region.
To further strengthen the position of the Autonomous Community as a logistics power of great national and international reference, Aragón Logistics Platform also has its sights set on the development of the Zaragoza-Algeciras railway motorway, one of the priority projects of the Government of Aragon to continue boosting the sector. In the year 2024, this Zaragoza - Algeciras corridor, 1,074 kilometers long, will connect Europe with Africa from Aragon, optimizing and making freight transport more sustainable by uploading truck semi-trailers to trains.
In turn, APL is also advancing in the improvement of its infrastructures to adapt to the needs of the market and in promoting the railway connection of its platforms in Zaragoza (Plaza), Huesca (Plhus) and Teruel (Platea). One of the main adaptations is the expansion of the Platea railway terminal, which will standardize the track up to the European standard.
