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Zona Franca sells the potential of its two venues and the strategic location in the SIL of Barcelona

The delegates of the Spanish free zones took advantage of the event to hold their periodic work meeting with matters of interest to the entities

The Consortium stand maintained intense activity where the commercial department displayed a full agenda of contacts and meetings

The great event of Logistics in Spain was inaugurated by the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez

The Cádiz Free Zone has intensified contacts during the four days in which it participated in the Barcelona International Logistics Exhibition (SIL), which was resumed this year after the break of two editions caused by the pandemic and which has also served as a setting for the meeting of the delegates of the seven Spanish free zones.

The great event of Logistics in Spain, which has been inaugurated by the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, has served the Cádiz Consortium to strengthen institutional contacts, analyze the keys to the future of the tax precincts and study the possibilities of encouraging and promoting these spaces, in addition to intensifying the efforts to show the full potential of the province of Cádiz, with the two tax precincts managed by the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz as protagonists and with a strategic and privileged enclave for logistical development.

The Free Trade Zone of Cádiz has been represented by the delegate, Fran González, and part of his management team, especially from the Business Promotion and Foreign Trade Area, in addition to a stand in the exhibition area that has shown and provided information about the two tax centers managed by the Cádiz Consortium in Cádiz and in the Bay of Algeciras and that will structure the logistical capacity of the province of Cadiz.

This Logistics forum has also served as a meeting point for the delegates of the seven Spanish free zones who have held their annual work meeting, in which matters of common interest for the future development of these entities have been discussed.

Present at the meeting were, in addition to Fran González, delegate of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone; Ramón Xuclà, general director of the Consorci, representing Pere Navarro, from Barcelona; David Regades, from Vigo; Margarita Pena, from Tenerife; Gabriel Corujo, from Gran Canaria; Francisco Fernández Mañanés, from Santander; And Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, from Seville.

During the working meeting, those responsible for the Spanish venues have expressed their willingness to strengthen their collaboration and joint work with the aim of promoting the economic development of each area of ​​influence of the consortia, sharing synergies and creating the ideal conditions for the establishment of companies and the arrival of investments.

The Cádiz stand with the two tax precincts and their customs and tax advantages has aroused great interest in the logistics event and has received numerous visits, as well as being the setting for contacts and meetings.

Fran González has expressed satisfaction with the participation of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone in the SIL events, "where we have intensified contacts and meetings in the midst of the commercialization process of the Bahía de Algeciras Tax Precinct and the joy that it has brought to the organizers, the Barcelona Free Zone, to be able to resume the call after two years of pandemic."

The head of the Consortium has highlighted "the importance of tax precincts for the logistics sector as essential productive centers to boost the economy of their areas of influence and drivers of job creation and attraction of investment. The delegate has emphasized the added value that "for us, for our province of Cádiz, having two tax precincts and the change in the industrial model of the Cádiz Free Zone towards more sustainable infrastructures committed to the environment, based on innovation.”