On 17 April, Jordi William Carnes, deputy mayor with responsibility for Finance and Economic Promotion and chair of Mercabarna, and Joaquim Llena, the Catalan Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Action, visited Mercabarna.
The following interview took place barely a month after Montserrat Gil de Bernabé had taken office as managing director of Mercabarna. Her professional achievements have given her a thorough knowledge of the workings of the different links in the food chain. She is now putting this professional expertise to Mercabarna’s benefit.
The Llobregat corridor is the highest-density goods traffic axis in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region. Some 100,000 lorries currently travel along this highway network (from Abrera to the Port), where the principal logistics nodes are concentrated: the Port, Airport, and Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL) and numerous industrial estates.