The first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, spoke at the event congratulating the Cádiz Institution, with words of praise for its activity and the new industry model that it is developing.
The celebration has included the participation of the oceanographer and researcher Elena Ceballos with the broadcast of the Cadena Ser Ser Conversa program
The State delegate, Fran González, welcomed the attendees and thanked the presence of the business community that participated in the networking that closed the day..
The Cádiz Free Trade Zone commemorated its 95th Anniversary this Friday with a central event in the Congress Palace that was chaired by the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero. The State delegate, Fran González, received the representative of the central government, whom he thanked for her presence in Cádiz to participate in the event.
The mayor of Cádiz, Bruno García, also participated in the inauguration ceremony, which was opened by the State delegate who welcomed those present.
After the welcome and the broadcast of a commemorative video of the event, the Minister of Finance had words of congratulations for the Cádiz Institution, whose trajectory and historical importance she has praised. Montero stated that “after 95 years of experience, the Free Trade Zone Consortium is currently a differentiated and differentiating element of innovation and commitment to the environment. After an exhaustive job of cleaning up the accounts, of economic viability of an institution that was experiencing a delicate economic and reputational situation when the current team arrived; with an unaffordable debt of 200% and a commercial paralysis that restricted the expected income; Today we can say that the institution has an advantageous reality that speaks, above all, of future options.”
Fran González, for his part, thanked authorities, companies and guests in general for their assistance and declared himself “proud that Cádiz has an Institution like the Free Trade Zone, and also proud of the team of people with whom I am working. "I thank them for their commitment and daily work."
Once the institutional event was over, the day gave way to the broadcast of the Radio Cádiz program Ser Conversa, in which the Andalusian researcher and oceanographer Elena Ceballos participated, sharing space with the delegate Fran González. This scientist has reported on her research, which focuses on the ocean and its role in climate change through the regulation of present and future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
Since June 2021, she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts (United States) where she collaborates in the EXPORTS project funded by NASA with the objective of predicting the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the oceans through satellite photos.
The commemorative event has concluded with an eminently business space, starring the director of Business Promotion and Foreign Trade, Marta Domínguez, and a representation of the companies installed in the Free Trade Zone, which have shared their experience as clients of the Consortium because, as As the commercial manager has expressed, “the Free Trade Zone is, above all, what the companies in it are.”
The Free Zone opened last June, coinciding with the date of its name day on June 11, the commemorative events of its 95th anniversary with a lunch celebrated with the workforce. Another of the actions has consisted of the recording and broadcast of a radio serial in the form of a podcast, which Zona Franca has developed with Radio Cádiz and which takes a tour through the history of the Zona Franca of Cádiz in a fictional way. In addition, the 95 years of life of the Institution have been present this summer in an exhibition in the Plaza San Juan de Dios.
The anniversary events will conclude on October 6 with a concert by the orchestra and choir of the University of Cádiz (UCA) that will also be held at the Palacio de Congresos.
