The Consortium travels hand in hand with the Naval Maritime Cluster of Cádiz, which maintains close ties with homonymous entities of Cartagena de Indias
The meeting, which brings together important Spanish and American entities and companies, will serve as a framework to consolidate ties with Colombian free zones and with the Association of Free Zones of the Americas
The Cadiz representation plans to know the facilities of the Central Park Free Zone and the Free Zone of Cartagena and visit Spanish companies in Colombia such as Wirsesa and Ghenova
The State delegate in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, accompanied by his management team, including the Director of Business Promotion and Foreign Trade, Marta Domínguez, and the coordinator of Incubazul, Jose Manuel Fedriani, participates this week in the Colombian town of Cartagena de Indias in the largest fair of the Naval and Maritime Industry of Latin America Colombiamar 2025.
The Free Zone of Cádiz travels hand in hand with the Naval Maritime Cluster of Cádiz, which maintains close links with entities such as the maritime cluster of Cartagena de Indias and the Chamber of Commerce of Cartagena, and other Cadiz companies that are part of the cluster ecosystem and that are developing activities in that Latin American country.
The representation of the Cadiz Consortium will take advantage of its assistance to Colombiamar 2025 to strengthen links and maintain a meeting with the Association of Free Zones of the Americas (AZFA) and meetings with free zones of the region and entities and entities and companies both Spanish and Latin American, with which it will exchange experiences and know the actions that are being developed around innovation and the blue economy, axes of the new industry model that is imposing the area that is imposing Franca de Cádiz.
In this context, Fran González plans to know the facilities of the Free Zone Central Park of Cartagena de Indias, one of the four free zones of the city and 115 hectares with a strategic location of great value for the export sector, and those of the Free Zone of Cartagena, Zofranca, established since 1973 and consolidated as a key promoter of foreign trade.
The delegate will present in Cartagena de Indias the strengths of the Free Zone of Cádiz, its productive spaces, its 600,000 m2 of fiscal enclosure in the province and its new model of industry 4.0 with the blue economy incubator as a central axis and the decarbonization plan that is developing within the framework of a more sustainable and committed industry.
In addition, the Cadiz representation will attend two relevance events that have Andalusian companies as protagonists. First, the inauguration of the headquarters in Colombia of the company Wiresa, a company linked to civil and defense construction based in Cádiz and more than 50 years of experience that is part of the naval maritime cluster. Another of the events will be the commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the opening of the headquarters in Colombia of the Sevillian company Ghenova.
Within the framework of the fair itself, the delegate of the Cadiz institution will hold a meeting with the National Association of Entrepreneurs of Colombia (ANDI), the largest guild in the country that has more than 1,400 affiliates that represent between 50 and 55% of the national GDP.
The commercial mission to Colombia will be completed with a visit to the Econova Caribe Innovation Center, the first of the country focused on the energy transition and circular economy; a visit to the shipyards of Cartagena; And a meeting with Cotecmar, an innovative organization that works within the field of scientific and technological research, supporting the development of the Colombian maritime industry.
Fran González and his team are going to carry out an intense agenda in the previous days and during the celebration of Colombiamar 2025, taking advantage of contacts with other free zones, entities and companies and to analyze possible roads of collaboration, which allow to join forces especially in the field of innovation, sustainability and the blue economy.
