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Gibraltar authorities and Nissan announces electric Spanish fishermen clash again van production from 2013 Nissan Motor Co. announced Wednesday it will launch global production of an all-electric van, the e-NV200, as early as next year in the Spanish city of Barcelona, creating 700 jobs.
T h e Japanese carmaker said it would invest 100 million euros ($126 million) in Spain to start production in its 2013 financial year at its Barcelona plant, which already makes the fuel-powered NV200. “The e-NV200 represents a genuine breakthrough in commercial vehicles and further underlines Nissan’s leadership within the electric vehicle segment,” executive vice president Andy Palmer told reporters at the plant. The new model is Nissan’s second allelectric vehicle after the LEAF passenger car and the manufacturer said it expected to create 700 jobs at the plant and among local suppliers. Barcelona will supply the e-NV200 to the global market, said the Yokohama, Japan-based firm. Nissan said range and performance would be similar to that of the LEAF,
which boasts a top speed of over 145 kph (90mph) and range of 175 kilometres (109 miles) per full charge with the air conditioning off. The carmaker said an electric prototype of the NV200 was being evaluated in Europe and trials would continue in the coming months to get “real-world feedback from the most demanding usage”. Nissan employs 4,800 people in three production centres in Spain: Barcelona in the northeast, Avila in the centre and Cantabria in the north, making all-terrain vehicles, vans and lorries. Though Spain has no national car manufacturer of its own -- SEAT is owned by Germany’s Volkswagen Group -- Spain is the second largest car producer in Europe behind Germany and 90 percent of output is for export.
There was renewed conflict in the waters around Gibraltar last night as boats manned by the Royal Gibraltar Police and the Royal Navy followed fishing boats that had set sail from Algeciras port, to stop them casting their nets near the British colony, provoking a confrontation with the Spanish Guardia Civil who were protecting them. Three boats put out from Algeciras port at around 9pm and headed towards an area south of Gibraltar port, with the intention of casting their nets.
According to the fishermen, as they switched on their lights to light up the seabed before casting their nets, a number of Royal Gibraltar Police boats approached, zooming past them time and again at high speed, creating tension and danger. Several Guardia Civil boats and a helicopter responded immediately
to protect the fishermen, as had been agreed by the Spanish government.
A Royal Navy boat also came to the scene, and its captain had a number of radio exchanges with the Guardia Civil boats to try to get them to leave the area.
only to use longline hooks and to not contravene Gibraltarian law until a committee of experts have analysed the type of fishing equipment that can be safely used in the area, as the Spanish fishermen allege that their methods are legal in the EU.
It was one of the most serious incidents since the conflict over fishing in waters close to the Rock erupted in March. the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, maintains that the 1999 agreement, on which the Spanish fishermen are basing their right to fish around the Rock, is illegal because it contravenes a local environmental law passed in 1991 that prohibits wishing with nets in the area. The incident come a day after Picardo and the fishermen’s guild signed a “memorandum of understanding” in which the fishermen agreed
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