The delegate of the Free Trade Zone, Fran González, held a meeting at the Consortium's headquarters in which possible spaces for future collaboration were analyzed.
The representatives of the neighboring country, who are part of a World Bank project in Morocco with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, have traveled to Cádiz together with the Institute for Sustainable Business Growth (ICSEM).
The State delegate in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, has received today at the Consortium's Headquarters a delegation from the Moroccan Government, traveling hand in hand with the Institute for Sustainable Business Growth (ICSEM), very interested to learn about the development and evolution of the Blue Economy incubator Incubazul. In fact, the delegation had expressly asked to learn about the Cádiz initiative given its international reference as a blue economy hub and its relevance as a successful experience.
The Moroccan delegation, made up of representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the World Bank in Rabat, the National Agency for the Development of Aquaculture, the Department of Maritime Fisheries and the Tangier City Council, among other public and private entities, is working together with the ICSEM on a project whose objective is to analyze the contribution of the Blue Economy to the Moroccan economy and design spaces for cooperation between the different sectors that are developing initiatives around the sector.
During the meeting, in which the director of Promotion and Foreign Trade, Marta Domínguez, and the coordinator of Incubazul, José Manuel Fedriani, also participated on behalf of the Free Zone, the Moroccan representatives, all of them linked to or interested in developing projects related to the Blue Economy, have been able to learn details of Incubazul and the hundred startups that have gone through the acceleration program, whose evolution and consolidation of many of them give a good example of the positive functioning of the incubator.
The Moroccan delegation has also seen the facilities of the Cádiz Free Zone, its fiscal premises and its activity, as well as the current headquarters of the incubator, located in the Europa Building, where they have been offered information about the acceleration program and the entire ecosystem that has been formed around Incubazul. Finally, they were able to visit the work of the exterior industrial estate where the recycled maritime container building is being built, an emblematic construction that will be the definitive headquarters of the Blue Economy incubator of the Free Zone.
The World Bank in Morocco and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the neighboring country, as well as the rest of the public and private entities, up to a total of a dozen government representatives and key actors in the sector, are learning in detail about the activity of different international initiatives. in the field of the Blue Economy and the Cádiz Free Trade Zone project, with mentions and recognition of its work and activity in different forums, has aroused enormous interest.
His tour of Spain and Portugal, which has included, among others, a visit to the port of Vigo and the Lisbon Ocean Forum, has the purpose of promoting the exchange of knowledge, experiences and good practices in the field of the Blue Economy. In fact, the Moroccan delegation intends to identify opportunities for collaboration and technology transfer, in addition to learning from the governance, innovation and sustainable development models implemented in both countries to apply them in Morocco, which is in the process of developing its own blue growth strategy. as a mechanism to boost its economic activity.
