Spanish Tourism

With approximately 15 500 km of railways, Spain has a network of relatively low density compared to its large European neighbors. Note also that in the nineteenth century, the country took the decision to build its tracks according to a gauge unusual: traumatized by the Napoleonic invasion of Spain was an attempt to prevent the risk of invasion from France. This choice has long hindered the establishment of direct links between the two countries.

France is a major international transit point for trucks in and out of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas. This creates difficulties both in terms of ecological economic perspective, “says the release of the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea These difficulties are shipping a attractive alternative to long distance road transport.

Noting the encouraging attendance of the motorway of the sea Nantes, Gijon, ministers want to give new impetus to the motorways of the sea, illustration of a successful modal effective. They want and the second highway between Le Havre and Nantes in Vigo and Algeciras is put into service quickly.

The joint declaration signed today is a reflection of the will of France and Spain to carry out infrastructure projects and transport services to facilitate trade across the Pyrenees and so develop the interconnections European dimension between the two countries.