Rail freight transport has seen everything suddenly come to a standstill.Gelida commuter train accident, where a train driver died, cutting off passenger traffic, but also that of the trains that They carry cargo From the port of Barcelona to the rest of Spain. A blockade that worsened with the closure of the Rubí tunnel, an infrastructure located on the route of goods to Europe and which has had internal cracks for some time. The solution to this standstill was to return to road transport those few goods that are currently being moved by rail. Weeks later, rail container traffic has resumed, but with restrictions and the expectation that this precarious situation will continue for years.

The rail chaos that Catalonia has been experiencing for the past week is worsening. The closure of the Rubí tunnel has disrupted freight traffic leaving the Port of Barcelona bound for France. After detecting a crack in the tunnel's return section, the port has had to completely halt traffic since Monday. The disruption in Rubí, which has persisted for days, prevents trains from Barcelona and southern Catalonia from reaching the rest of the continent, as well as preventing trains from arriving from France.

Over the past ten years, the Port of Tarragona has maintained similar traffic figures. In 2015, the port infrastructure recorded 33.2 million tons of cargo – primarily petroleum products, grains, and vehicles – a figure slightly higher than in 2014, when the Port of Tarragona closed the year with 32.33 million tons. During this period, however, the number of cruise passengers disembarking at the port has seen significant growth. The figures speak for themselves: 11,600 cruise passengers arrived in 2015, while in 2014 the number reached 136,850 passengers, with 63 different port calls. Throughout this time, in addition to expanding its infrastructure, the Port of Tarragona has also committed to sustainability and to one of the major challenges facing ports worldwide: integrating these large infrastructures into their urban surroundings. Last week, at the twentieth edition of the World Conference on Cities and Ports, held in New York, the Port's president, Santiago J. Castellà, explained that among the actions to be carried out in the coming years are the protection of biodiversity, a commitment to diverse cultural programming, and collaboration with the country's metropolitan area. "We must view ports from a human and humanistic perspective," said Castellà.

The European Community's goal of being completely carbon-neutral by 2050 requires obtaining energy from various sources, and one of these is floating offshore wind power, one of the Catalan government's commitments. Some countries have already begun to develop it, but in southern Europe, bidding for the first offshore wind farms is just beginning. In Catalonia, they will be installed in the Gulf of Roses and the Gulf of Lion. Both projects are currently awaiting environmental impact reports, but the government is confident of being able to put them out to tender soon. The project in the Gulf of Roses alone—which will have between 50 and 60 generators—should be capable of producing 1,000 megawatts, half of what the government wants to generate with this technology by 2050. It should be noted that these are structures over 180 meters high. In addition to the floating windmills on the Catalan coast, there will also be windmills in Sardinia and Sicily (between 2028 and 2029) and also on the coast of France.

In a week The stock market is in turmoil due to Trump's tariff warLarge companies have not stopped their internal movements and signings to strengthen their positions amid this uncertain macroeconomic environment. From the transfer of communications directors between Puig and Grifols to the new heads of the La Caixa Foundation and the new director of the Port of Tarragona, these are the main appointments of the week.