More than one port in Wales should be awarded freeport status, the Welsh Conservatives have said. The party called on the Welsh Government to work with the UK Government to deliver two freeports in Wales, though Economy Minister Vaughan Gething said a second freeport would require the same financial support from the Treasury.
There are three bids from ports competing to become the first freeport in Wales and benefit from £26m of funding support from the Westminster administration, the similar funding deal secured by freeports in England and by the Scottish government.
Speaking in a debate regarding freeports during the Senedd, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for the Economy Paul Davies MS said he hoped that more than one bid was successful and that Wales enjoyed multiple freeports across the country.
