The Catalan government will spend €16.2 million on the first phase of a new rail freight station in Vilamalla. The project is part of a wider plan to move more of Catalonia's goods off the roads and onto trains.

The announcement came in a busy week for rail freight in the Alt Empordà. Days earlier, a Figueres-based advisory body called for faster progress on two major rail projects in the county.

Four new freight stations by 2031

Sílvia Paneque, the Catalan minister for Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, presented the plan after Tuesday's meeting of the Executive Council, the weekly cabinet meeting of the Generalitat (the Catalan government).

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