El Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona has closed a deal to carry out a SIL Americas 2020 in Barranquilla (Colombia)

• Corferias, a company that seeks to strengthen ties in terms of fairs between Colombia and the world community, has contacted SIL as the European logistics fair of reference for the LATAM market.

• The special delegate of the State at the CZFB and President of SIL, Pere Navarro, has closed this agreement during his participation in the 21^st FITAC International Congress that is held in Barranquilla in a meeting held with the President of Corferias, Andrés López.

Barcelona, 25^th of October, 2019.- The special delegate of the State at the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona (CZFB) and President of SIL, Pere Navarro, together with the managing director of the CZFB and SIL, Blanca Sorigué, has closed an agreement with Corferias to organize a SIL Americas to take place in Barranquilla on October 21 and 23, 2020.

Corferias has expressed its interest in the CZFB’s know-how in the organization of fairs, specifically referring to SIL, the Leading Logistics, Transport, Intralogistics and Supply Chain Fair in Southern Europe that has 22 years of experience. The contacting between both parties started at SIL 2019, that last year took place coinciding with the World Summit of International Trade and Supply Chain that brought together, in addition to SIL and eDelivery Barcelona, the World Free Trade Zones Congress, the MedaLogistics Summit, the ALACAT Congress and the AEO International Congress.

Pere Navarro has explained that “this agreement is very important for our goal of projecting the image of Barcelona internationally and helping our companies to become more international. In this sense, the initiative is part of a global strategy started by the CZFB whose objective is the internationalization of some of its services and especially its know-how in the organization of international fairs”.

The special delegate of the State at the CZFB has also recalled that “SIL has always been meant as an important bridge for business, networking and knowledge between the Mediterranean and Latin America in the logistics sector.”

Lastly, Pere Navarro has also wanted to explain that “as a result of this agreement that we reached with Corferias in October 2020, we will organize a SIL America in Barranquilla, that we’re very excited about and believe that can be a good opportunity for the Spanish companies in the sector to become more international, as well as to open up to the Colombian market which is in full expansion and with an important infrastructure development plan ”.

It should be noted that Corferias is a private company that promotes industrial, social, cultural and commercial development in the Andean Region, Central America and the Caribbean. Its main objective is to strengthen the cooperation links between Colombia and the world community through the organization of fairs, exhibitions, events and conferences, quality networking between visitors and exhibitors in a venue managed under international standards. Likewise, it boosts and organizes the participation of Colombia in fairs and exhibitions held abroad and has established partnerships with companies that have the same objective in favor of promoting the industrial or commercial development of the country.

From left to right: Andrés López, President of Corferias, Juan Esteban, Director of the Barranquilla’s fair venue, Guillermo González Larsen, President of FITAC, Pere Navarro, special delegate of the State at the CZFB and president of SIL, Blanca Sorigué, managing director of CZFB and SIL, and Miguel Ángel Espinosa, CEO of FITAC