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Origins Carril's Expansion Vilagarcía's Takeoff > Administrative Comission of the Port Effects of the War and Postwar Period Incipient Organization Iberport and Development Plan

Administrative Comission of the Port At the request of the Chamber of Commerce, being its president Elpidio Villaverde, and with the support of the main commercial companies –Hijos de Simón Bourrel, Asociación Patronal de Mineros Asturianos, Gerardo Serapio, Enrique Caamaño, Compañía Transmediterránea, Compañía General de Carbones, etc.—it is elected the Administrative Commission of the Port of Vilagarcía in year 1924, with the purpose of improving the capacity of management of the port, an objective that it has fulfilled since the very beginning. The approval, that same year, of the “Works Project of Improvement of the Port of Vilagarcía” is its first important agreement. This project written by the engineer-director Carlos G. Espresati includes a commercial quay of 340 metres of length, 80 meters of width and 7 meters of depth that begins in the rocks opposite Comboa and finishes in Diate shoal. Likewise, the project includes a link quay and a coast quay that goes from Castro Ramp to Suárez Ramp, leaving a big esplanade opposite the “Alameda”. The global budget is 5.222.712,98 pesetas. The performances included in the mentioned project require a long processing, so that its definitive approval does not take place until 1931 and its later execution does not begin till 1934. The same happens with its termination, expected initially in 1940; but technical and economic problems delay its definitive completion until 1946. > Photographic Support

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