Today, Tuesday, April 30, the Cádiz Free Trade Zone Consortium and the city council organize a Technical Conference on the role of logistics platforms in the evolution of international trade. The meeting, which is held in the assembly hall of the Heracles building –located in the Interior Precinct of the Free Trade Zone - from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., its objective is to convey to Cádiz society the importance of having a logistics platform for the strategic economic activity of the province.
The State delegate in the Consortium, Jorge Ramos, participates in the meeting that includes among the participants the mayor of Cádiz, Teófila Martínez; the general director of Laredo Logistics International and expert in logistics areas, Héctor Vargas; and the president of the Public Entity of State Ports, José Llorca.
For this reason, Costa Rican Héctor Vargas, with more than 30 years of professional experience in business development and foreign trade issues in Latin America, Europe and Asia, visited the delegate of the Free Zone yesterday morning to exchange impressions and establish contacts with a view to strengthening the Free Zone as a Fiscal Area and promoting foreign trade activities as a fundamental interlocutor of the Southern European logistics platform, located in the province of Cádiz with vertices in the strategic nodes Cádiz, Jerez and Algeciras .
In the biography of Héctor Vargas it is worth noting that he is honorary president of the Free Zone Committee of the Americas since 2009, a consultant to the IDB/INTAL on Free Zone projects and foreign trade in Latin America and an advisor to Industrial Parks of Free Zones in Latin America , Spain and Africa. Likewise, he has been a consultant for the city of Laredo (United States) on issues of international positioning and development of the logistics platform.