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The Federation of Motor Transport of Tarragona (FEAT) and the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona (Engineers Tarragona) have today addressed the transport challenges that the territory will face in the coming years, and have provided possible solutions from the presentations of transporters and engineers, experts in mobility and infrastructures, specialists in sustainability and technology and references in innovation and training. They did so in the first session of the debate days 'The future of transport in Tarragona' , with the participation of experts and institutional representatives, companies and entities, at the Tarragona Seminary, with the assistance of about seventy people. The second session of the conference is scheduled for Thursday, April 25 in the same space, and will focus on technology applied to the world of transport. This double initiative has the support of the Department of Territory of the Generalitat.
Road transport plays a crucial role in the economy of Camp de Tarragona and the Terres de l'Ebre. It guarantees the effective and efficient circulation of people and goods throughout the demarcation. For this reason, the president of FEAT, Joaquim Riudeubas, has stated that "we want to get young people to access the sector, and it is also very important that women do it. We have the generational challenge, all over Europe there is a lack of male and female drivers. For this reason, here in Catalonia we have promoted the professional training of young people, so that they can access free of charge to learn the profession and have a license to be able to drive trucks and buses".
The session began with the intervention of Noemí Llauradó, president of the Provincial Council of Tarragona, who praised the social and economic work carried out by transporters and claimed the need to highlight it to the public. The first block, on passenger transport, has had the interventions of Daniel Fernández, Deputy Director General of Transport of the Generalitat; Aaron Gutiérrez, director of the Department of Geography at Rovira i Virgili University; Jaume Vidal, head of the Infrastructures area of the Tarragona Provincial Council; Josep M. Chavarría, president of the Catalan Federation of Autotransport of Travelers, and Josep Albert Vallcorba, president of the Agrupació de Transport Regular de Viatgers.
The second block of the day, focused on the transport of goods, had the participation of Joaquim Riudeubas, president of FEAT; Antoni Boix, president of the Territory commission of the Chemical Business Association of Tarragona; Enric Ticó, president of the Spanish Federation of Freight Forwarders, and Eugeni Sedano, president of the Interior Goods Platform. The event was closed by Joan Gabriel Talarn, dean of the College of Industrial Technical Engineers of Tarragona, who highlighted the need to work together between engineers and FEAT to "reach far and always maintaining the premises of doing things properly sustainable and safe". In this sense, he added that "major investments need to be made in the territory, and beyond the coastal area, since it is essential to connect the Terres de l'Ebre and Camp de Tarragona with the interior of Catalonia".
