After several weeks of blockade, the Barcelona Free Zone Consortium (CZFB) has awarded the tender for the lease of the land that Nissan occupied in the industrial estate until a year ago to the Australian company Goodman, specialized in construction and management of logistics and business spaces in Europe, the United States and the Asia-Pacific region.
The multinational was the only candidate for the tender and the approval came after verifying that it "guarantees industrial continuity with a project linked to electric mobility," according to a statement from the public body that owns the land.
After this award, Goodman will be the one to subrogate the contracts to the companies already established in this space and deploy the D-Hub electromobility project, led by the companies QEV Technologies and B-Tech.
This project will receive 65 million from the Plan for the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (Perte) of the Connected Electric Vehicle (VEC) after Andbank, CaixaBank, Avalis, Abanca and Banco Sabadell endorsed part of the funds that had been initially granted in November moment.
The first phase of reindustrialization of the Nissan lands began in July 2022 with the entry of the electric motorcycle manufacturer Silence, owned by the Acciona group, which occupies a total area of 61,000 square meters and has hired part of the former Nissan workforce. , as agreed with the workers' representatives last May.
On the other hand, the Japanese automobile company also received authorization so that its technical center could continue in the Free Zone area, where it occupies 38,400 square meters and employs 287 workers.
The award of the land in the Free Trade Zone puts an end to a long process of reindustrialization, in which, in addition to the Consortium, the Ministry of Industry, the Generalitat and the unions represented in the company committee have been involved. Nissan.
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