Cartagena comarca · No. 1 · Wednesday 30 September 2026 · 6-minute read

The Port of Cartagena settles 1.14 million in tendered works and the RM-F35 takes bids until 16 October

The Port Authority this week settled the full accessibility project for the Port of Cartagena and the car parks on the Muelle Príncipe Felipe quay, tendered at 1.14 million euros before VAT in total. For the RM-F35 road of Cartagena city council, tendered at 1.27 million, offers are accepted until 16 October, and the same city council is offering 29,990 euros in prizes and competitions. On Monday 5 October the Cartagena comarca closes two court auctions for homes, one of 133 metres in Los Cánovas and another of 116 inside Cartagena city council's own municipal area.

The Port of Cartagena now has builders for its accessibility works and the Muelle Príncipe Felipe car parks

• Urdecon will make the whole port accessible. The Autoridad Portuaria de Cartagena, the port authority, this week resolved the full accessibility project for the Port of Cartagena, put out to tender for 896,181.86 euros excluding VAT, in favour of Construcciones Urdecon. The same builder holds the Los Cánovas sewer main contract, in Fuente Álamo de Murcia.
• Contratas y Viales de Levante will rebuild the Muelle Príncipe Felipe car parks. Also resolved this week was the upgrade of the car parks opposite the SESTICARSA building, put out to tender for 247,399.55 euros excluding VAT. Together with the accessibility project, the two waterfront works resolved this week add up to 1.14 million euros put out to tender.
• No contractor has been named yet for the Escombreras dock water supply. The drinking water upgrade in the extension of the dock, put out to tender for 599,763.44 euros excluding VAT, is still under review. The bidding period closed on 31 August and the contract does not yet have a builder.

Until 5 October there are bids on 133 metres in Los Cánovas and 116 in the municipal district of Cartagena

• In Los Cánovas, in Fuente Álamo de Murcia, a 133 metre duplex still accepts offers. It is a two storey home of 133 built metres, not counting patio or garage, in a building of five homes put up in 2007. It is in the same hamlet whose sewer main Urdecon is renewing. Bidding stays open until 5 October.
• In the municipal district of Cartagena, another home of 116 usable metres shares that closing date. The home of 116 usable metres also closes on 5 October.
• Three lots in the municipal district of Cartagena closed on Monday 28 September. Bidding ended for a home of 107 registered metres in Los Nietos, in the Rincón de San Ginés area, in a building from 1980 with a median CasasValue of 184,106 euros, and for an undivided half share of a home and of its garage with storeroom, in a block of 70 homes from 2008 with a median CasasValue of 250,826 euros.

Cartagena city council takes bids until 16 October to rebuild the last half kilometre of road before Plaza de Alicante

• The road that ends next to Plaza de Alicante needs a builder. Cartagena city council accepts bids until 16 October to upgrade and improve the last half kilometre of the RM-F35, up to Plaza de Alicante, put out to tender for 1,265,811.54 euros excluding VAT.
• Three urban projects are pending a decision on who builds them. Still under review are the Hotel de Asociaciones Sociosanitarias Recrea, a building for health and social associations, put out to tender for 1,652,752.93 euros excluding VAT, the restoration of the Vía Verde greenway axis in the eastern area, for 628,099.17 euros, and the upgrade of the surroundings of Parque Escipión, for 635,806.16 euros. The three together add up to 2,916,658.26 euros.
• Two roads and Christmas are already resolved. Already resolved are the improvement of the RM-332 up to the roundabout with the RM-E18, put out to tender for 337,554.97 euros excluding VAT, and that of the RM-E33, for 263,976.95 euros, although the Platform has not yet published the builder. The special Christmas lighting for 2026 and 2027, put out to tender for 813,122.40 euros, will be installed by Elecfes Iluminación.

Cartagena city council offers 29,990 euros in prizes and competitions as three companies launch in the comarca

• Cartagena city council opens two calls for individuals. The Cartagena Ciudad Transparente, Colaboradora y Participativa prizes, in their fourth edition, share out 5,000 euros and accept applications until 120 calendar days after publication in the BORM, the regional gazette. The Entre Cuerdas y Metales youth competition has 24,990 euros and allows twenty working days from its publication in the BORM. The two together add up to 29,990 euros.
• Craftspeople have regional prizes and grants. The Consejería de Empresa, Empleo y Economía Social, the regional business department, calls the Región de Murcia Craft Prizes 2026 and the grants for non profit craft associations, open across the region. Who can apply and until when is set out in each call.
• Chambers of Commerce and trade fairs receive direct funding. Two decrees of 24 September set the direct award of grants to the Cámaras Oficiales de Comercio, Industria, Servicios y Navegación of the region and to the official trade fairs for 2026. They are not applied for. This is money that goes to the bodies that provide services to businesses.
• Boat refits, audiovisual and investment launch new companies. In the city of Cartagena, Náutica Imperium was set up on 24 September with 3,000 euros to maintain, repair and refit leisure, fishing and professional boats, and Narrador Protagonista on the 29th with 500 euros, for audiovisual production. In Fuente Álamo de Murcia, Indri Capital was registered on the 28th with 3,000 euros to invest in assets, property included.

Fuente Álamo de Murcia resolves the new water network for Balsapintada and El Estrecho and reviews proposals for its Plan General

• Balsapintada and El Estrecho will have a new water pumping network. This week, with Tecno Urbs as contractor, the council resolved the extension of the water pumping network of Balsapintada and El Estrecho, put out to tender for 247,933.88 euros excluding VAT.
• Los Cánovas renews its main sewer. Construcciones Urdecon holds the contract for the renewal of the main sewer of Los Cánovas, put out to tender for 622,496.22 euros excluding VAT.
• The municipality compares proposals to draft the document that will set its buildable land. Fuente Álamo de Murcia town council is reviewing the bids to draft the preliminary Plan General de Ordenación, the municipal zoning plan, put out to tender for 99,176.55 euros excluding VAT.
• Swimming pool, playground and Parque Tecnológico await a company. Still under review are the telescopic roof of the municipal swimming pool, for 293,875.82 euros excluding VAT, the park with a children's playground on calle República de México, for 249,452.20 euros, and the paving and signage of the Parque Tecnológico business park, for 99,754.75 euros.

See on the map the CasasValue of any building in the city of Cartagena, from the Muelle Príncipe Felipe to Parque Escipión

The Cartagena comarca is made up of three municipalities, Cartagena, Fuente Álamo de Murcia and La Unión. In the municipal district of Cartagena, the Port Authority settled the full accessibility project and the Muelle Príncipe Felipe car parks, the city council accepts offers until 16 October for the last stretch of the RM-F35, is reviewing the Hotel de Asociaciones, the Vía Verde and Parque Escipión and offers two prizes, and Náutica Imperium and Narrador Protagonista are founded. Fuente Álamo de Murcia settled the water network of Balsapintada and El Estrecho, has the preliminary draft of its Plan General under review and welcomes Indri Capital. La Unión had no tendered works, court auctions or company formations of its own this week, and like every other part of the Región de Murcia it can use the craft calls.

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