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FREE COPY BADMINTON THE NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN SPAIN Carolina Marín, Official market leader world champion Audited by PGD/OJD for the third time August 10th to 16th 2018 www.surinenglish.com The Spanish player has become the first News 2 Health & Beauty 56 Comment 25 Sport 62 woman to achieve this Lifestyle 26 My Home 67 What To Do 44 Classified 73 feat P53 in English Food & Drink 54 Pastimes 78 A HARVEST WITH HIGH HOPES Refuse collection and cleaning Large yields are expected as the grape harvest gets under way in the Axarquía P54&55 strike to start in Fuengirola Urbaser will only run a partial service from today because of a dispute over pay and conditions A strike by refuse workers in Fuen- girola is due to start today, Friday, as contract holders Urbaser continue to refuse to renegotiate terms and conditions with its employees, freez- ing pay and conditions. Minimum services will be carried out. P12 Malaga warms up for the fair. The biggest party on the city’s social calendar starts with fireworks tonight P6 The regulation of holiday rentals “restricts competition” says the Pickers work with the help of donkeys on the steep hillsides. :: ÑITO SALAS CNMC, which plans to take local authorities to court P20 A foray into the world of Antequera to be development chukkas. Santa María Polo Club in Sotogrande hosts its showpiece International hub for Virgin’s supersonic train Tournament this month P52 Hyperloop One research and testing centre will directly create 250 jobs at Bobadilla Malaga province was celebrating this week’s news that Virgin Hy- perloop One has chosen Bobadilla, near Antequera, to be a world-lead- ing research and development cen- tre for a new generation of super- sonic rail travel. The pioneering multinational group, backed by Britain’s Richard Branson, will spend over 400 mil- lion euros adapting existing build- ings built by the Spanish govern- ment for an earlier abandoned rail- way test site. 250 direct jobs and many more indirect jobs are ex- pected to be created when it opens in 2020. P2-4 22222222 August 10th to 16th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH THE LOCATION OF THE HYPERLOOP CENTRE IN BOBADILLA Virgin chooses inland Malaga Virgin Hyperloop One will be renting the two adjoining buildings owned by Adif beside the station at Bobadilla, which have never been used province to develop its AVE lines Cordoba AVE stations Railway Loop pro- futuristic supersonic train ject (cancelled) AVE to Granada over 19,000 square metres, were just production capacity to satisfy future (undergoing abandoned. Now, thanks to an agree- demand”. Seville Marchena Puente Genil trials) ment which has just been signed be- Virgin will be investing about 431 NURIA tween Adif and Virgin, they are to be million euros in the project, which TRIGUERO used: as the first European develop- will include manufacturing areas, ment centre of the multinational’s testing platforms and equipment for Santa Ana [email protected] Hyperloop supersonic train. Virgin Hyperloop One. “In exchange,” Bobadilla The president of Adif, Isabel Pardo, says the company, it will be given 126 Antequera and the CEO of Virgin Hyperloop million euros of public funds (in the Track built and then The company is abandoned for the One, Rob Lloyd, signed a route map form of loans and grants for R+D+i AVE to Seville renting two large earlier this week. The agreement is for the facilities). Neither Virgin nor Málaga buildings near for ten years, and can be renewed. Adif have said which administration Virgin expects the new centre to be or authorities will be providing these Antequera to set up a operative in 2020; it will develop, test funds. These installations were R+D centre for the and certify components and techno- built in preparation for logical subsystems for the Virgin Hy- Impact on employment the railway testing link Hyperloop, as part of a which Zapatero’s go- perloop One systems. The new centre in Bobadilla will cre- vernment planned in Ante- The Adif buildings project which will Once the testing and validation ate 250 direct jobs for highly quali- quera but which was never which Hyperloop phases are completed, the centre will fied professionals in the next five carried out. They have ne- will be using create 250 direct jobs remain open to provide support for years, and hundreds of indirect jobs ver been used. the operations, maintenance and in- from the creation of the “necessary MALAGA. For five years the two ternational expansion of the system. ecosystem” for the manufacture of gigantic depots, which the Adif rail- In the long term, the aim is to make Hyperloop systems at world level, ac- They are two adjoi- AVE to way infrastructure company built in it “a leading installation where other cording to Adif. The two parties will ning buldings which Malaga Bobadilla, near Antequera in inland transport companies can test and cer- collaborate on the implantation of total 19,140 square metres in size and Malaga province, have lying empty. tify new technologies,” say sources this ecosystem, which will enable are beside Bobadilla They were originally built in prepa- at Virgin. “The capacity of this cen- participating companies to export station. They cost 10 ration for the Antequera ‘railway loop’, tre will enable Virgin Hyperloop One their products and services to other million euros. but when that project was cancelled to work with regulators to certify sys- countries where the Virgin Hyper- these buildings, which together cover tems and, eventually, increase the loop One projects are sold. August 10th to 16th 2018 3 SUR IN ENGLISH NEWS space and high technology sectors, The investment, of plus the excellent talent here, Spain is ideal for the Virgin Hyperloop One around 431 million euros, testing and development centre,” said is conditional on 126 Rob Lloyd, CEO of Virgin Hyperloop million in grants and One. With regard to Andalucía, sources at Virgin also stressed that: “With loans in exchange more than 9,000 transport and logis- tics companies, the second largest aerospace conglomerate in Spain and The agreement between 20,000 people working in R+D, it is consolidating itself at a global level Virgin and Adif is initially as an industrial hub for transporta- for ten years and can be tion and aerospace innovation. The region has an excellent business eco- extended by agreement system and access to highly qualified professionals who can support the development of the centre”. Virgin will be renting the Adif Background buildings which, due to their com- This agreement, signed off by the new bined size of over 19,000 square me- Spanish government, comes after tres, will be able to accommodate the months of negotiations started by equipment required for the hardware the former minister of Public Works, tests needed for the development of Iñigo de la Serna. In May there was this leading-edge technology. talk of discussions between Virgin “In order for Hyperloop to be com- and the Junta de Andalucía about us- mercially viable it has to be safe and ing part of the infrastructure of the trustworthy; security is our number abandoned Antequera-Seville rail- one priority,” said Josh Giegel, the co- way line, of which 77 kilometres have founder and head of technology of :: SUR been built and never used, but this Virgin Hyperloop One. “We have been does not form part of the agreement testing and improving our technol- HOW DOES IT WORK? with very little friction, and rise lower and rear part of the appa- signed this week. Although Virgin is ogy for the past four years, including thanks to a cushion of air which ratus. not ruling out the possibility of other the only Hyperloop system to real Passengers. The passenger cap- forms below the capsule. This also collaboration in the future, at the mo- scale in the world. Eventually this sules move through the interior enables it to reach high speeds. Acceleration system. Through ment it is limiting itself to the Adif centre will help us to complete our of steel tubes supported by ce- an electric induction in the tube. buildings in Bobadilla. first projects and then go on to sat- ment pillars. The air cushion. This is Only needed when starting and at Sources associated with the pro- isfy future demand from all over the achieved thanks to a turbine in certain points where speed is lost ject say it will also seek synergies with world,” he said. The capsule. It moves through the nose of the capsule, which (hills, bends etc). The energy The Railway Innovation Hub, a group Why did Virgin choose to come to the tube, where there is very low compresses the air it meets as it needed comes from external solar of companies based in Adif’s Railway Spain, and particularly Malaga? “With pressure, allowing it to move passes and redirects it to the panels. Technologies Centre (CTF) on its solid high-speed transport, aero- the Andalusian Technological > 4 August 10th to 16th 2018 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Park in Malaga. This is a clus- The mayor of Antequera province at the top of the railway commented that he had been very It was back in 2013 that Tesla- > ter of 60 companies which are In his response Manuel Barón, the technology sector in Spain,” he pleased when Pardo was appointed founder Elon Musk announced his expert in different fields of innova- mayor of Antequera, stressed the pointed out. to the post by the new government, idea of building an ultrasonic train tion in railway technology. “quality employment” that this Barón said that in May Íñigo de “because she understands the real- based on vacuum tubes and mag- project will bring to his munici- la Serna had announced that “very ity of Adif and its projects and she netic levitation, and strangely Reactions pality.

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