The Consortium's Chief of Staff, Tania Barcelona, was present this week at the meeting that began to outline the calendar of activities for 2017.
The Chief of Staff of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone, Tania Barcelona, participated this week in the technical commission that is in charge of organizing the commemoration of the 300 years of the transfer of the Contracting House from Seville to Cádiz. During the meeting, made up of representatives of the institutions that signed the collaboration protocol designed to give the greatest importance to the anniversary, the first concrete proposals for action were put on the table.
The meeting, coordinated by the provincial deputy Fran González, served for the institutions present to propose the activities that each one is interested in developing, at the same time as providing the list of spaces in which they could be carried out in the different municipalities or entities.
Zona Franca is specifying the initiatives that it will contribute and that are aimed at linking the Consortium to the city of Cádiz and the people of Cádiz; to the traditional relations with the Ibero-American world; and to the strategic place that Cádiz and its presence represent in the East-West international trade axis.
With all this, and in the absence of making a definitive selection of the actions to be carried out, during the meeting the calendar for 2017 began to be clarified. It will be in the month of May when the anniversary reaches its climax.
It is worth remembering that the Free Trade Zone is one of the institutions linked to the celebration of the 300 years of the transfer of the Trading House of the Indies to Cádiz, after the signing of the corresponding protocol last June, which expressed the need to establish a single and coordinated agenda of activities, with which one of the most fruitful historical stages for the Bay of Cádiz could be exposed: the 18th century, a period of splendor in commercial relations with overseas territories, of social cosmopolitanism and cultural flourishing.
Together with the Free Trade Zone and the Provincial Council, the Government of Spain, the Junta de Andalucía, the town councils of Cádiz, San Fernando, El Puerto de Santa María, Puerto Real, Chiclana, Rota and Sanlúcar de Barrameda - with the recent incorporation of Chipiona -, the University of Cádiz, the Port Authority of the Bay of Cádiz, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation of Cádiz, the Confederation of Businessmen of Cádiz and the Spanish Navy.