BCL adopts the creation of an Office for Boosting Energetic Communities within the Logistics Industry

• This office is created with the goal of boosting innovation and participation on renewable energies, energetic efficiency or industry’s electric mobility.

• In 2024, BCL (Barcelona-Cataluña Centro Logístico) –chaired by Pere Navarro, special delegate of the State at the CZFB– will be celebrating its 30^th anniversary.

Barcelona, 24 January 2023. – Today, BCL’s Steering Committee has discussed the Action Plan for 2023, among other issues, during a new session.

During the event, the creation of the Office for Boosting Energetic Communities within the Logistics Industry was adopted. The goal with this creation is boosting innovation and participation on renewable energies, energetic efficiency or industry’s electric mobility. Green logistics is being consolidated as the actual alternative for future, boosted from social economy, and with the aim of reaching a bigger environmental commitment for accomplish UN’s 2030 Agenda GSDs.

Furthermore, the previous session was adopted, the International Economic Forum in Logistics – IESE 2023 strategy was discussed, as well as remembering BCL’s 30^th anniversary in 2024.

From November 2022 in advance, Pere Navarro –special delegate of the State at the CZFB– is heading the Steering Committee. Paul Solanilla (Commissioner for City Promotion at Barcelona City Hall), Lluís Salvadó (Chairman of Port de Barcelona) and Isaac Albert (Chairman of Cimalsa) are the three vice chairmen.

Among the BLC’s goals, it can be found, for example, looking for a more competitive logistics system in Catalonia, as well as boosting a balanced logistics system within the economic, environmental and social development. BLC supports establishing new productive models, especially those related to Industry 4.0, along with encouraging private-public investment models oriented to the creation of new jobs under socially sustainable conditions.

BCL’s commissions and work groups are currently the following: Facilities and Transport Services; Air Freight; Logistics Security; Training and Occupation Table; Logistics Green Deal, Logistics Innovation Hub; DSG; and Economic Promotion and Land for Logistics Uses.

“BCL is still an extremely powerful tool thanks to the public-private relation within the logistics industry”, said Pere Navarro. “By creating the Office for Boosting Energetic Communities within the Logistics Industry, we would take steps to help Catalonia’s industrial and business fabrics to be part of new Industry 4.0, that advocate for eminently-sustainable activities for the environment. […] Port de Barcelona and Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona are perfectly in consonance with each other for pulling together and, therefore, achieving these goals”, he added.