UPyD Eagles have claimed that the standard gauge railway reaches the Mediterranean Corridor Eagles in 2016, as will to Cartagena, as promised by the Ministry of Development.
With the standard gauge "could be reached by rail to Central, destination of most horticultural products", without having to transship trains at the border and "winning time exports and competitiveness."
Training magenta line said that Murcia-Eagles "will be the only one in the Mediterranean Corridor without wide international" extraordinarily damaging the export of horticultural products in the region, now go over 100 trucks per day to Central Europe, the equivalent of a train.
Also UPyD Eagles said that the Region of Murcia, along with the province of Almería "export 90% of fruit and vegetables from around the Spanish Mediterranean, one of the world's largest transport of this type and growing" .
Currently "not exported a single tonne rail, mainly due to the problem of gauge".
Finally, Union Democracy Progress pointed out that the center of gravity of this production, which comprises the province of Murcia and Almeria, is in the Lorca-axis Puerto Lumbreras, "where they should build an intermodal station for shipping containers or semi-trailers rather ".
Source: UPyD Región de Murcia