The largest Logistics congress in Latin America to be held at SIL 2023

• The agreement was made official in Mexico, at the end of the ALACAT 2022 Congress, with the traditional flag passing ceremony attended by the President of ALACAT, Moisés Solís, the special delegate of the State at CZFB, Pere Navarro, and the CEO at CZFB, Blanca Sorigué.

• The 39th edition of the Congress of the Federation of International Freight Associations and Logistics Operators of Latin America and the Caribbean (ALACAT) is expected to bring together more than 1,000 Latin American professionals in Barcelona.

• SIL 2023 will celebrate its 25th anniversary from 5 to 8 June in a very special edition that will continue to focus on the internationalisation of the fair, which is already a world benchmark in the sector.

Barcelona, 13 October 2022. – Barcelona, 13 October 2022. – The Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, organiser of SIL – the world’s largest trade fair encompassing the entire logistics chain – and the Federation of National Associations of Freight Forwarders and International Logistics Operators of Latin America (ALACAT) have just announced that the 39th edition of the ALACAT Congress will take place in Barcelona (Spain) within the framework of SIL 2023. The agreement was signed during the celebration of the ALACAT 2022 Congress held this week in Mexico, and was made official at the closing of the congress with the traditional flag passing ceremony attended by the President of ALACAT, Moisés Solís, the special delegate of the State at CZFB, Pere Navarro, and the CEO at CZFB, Blanca Sorigué.

The ALACAT Congress is the largest congress held in Latin America and in 2023 it will be held in Barcelona to coincide with a very special edition of SIL, its 25th anniversary. This will build bridges of business and exchange of knowledge and experience between Hispanic and European logistics with the presence of more than 1,000 professionals. It is worth remembering that the ALACAT Congress will be held in Spain in the 2016 and 2019 editions of SIL. Precisely, the last of them, in SIL 2019, coincided with a very powerful edition where the “Barcelona Declaration” was signed, in favour of cooperation and economic development, with the parallel celebration of the World Congress of Free Trade Zones, the MedaLogistics Summit, the AZFA Congress, the International AEO Congress, the eDelivery Congress and the SIL Congress itself.

During the announcement of this important news, the special delegate of the State in the CZFB and President of SIL, Pere Navarro, said that “SIL is the best possible setting in Europe to hold a congress of the importance and significance of ALACAT. We are very excited to be able to count on the presence of the most prominent professionals in the sector in Latin America in a very special edition for SIL as it is our 25th anniversary“. Navarro thanked “Moisés Solís, President of ALACAT, for all his efforts and support that have made this great agreement possible, as well as congratulating him on the great work he is doing at the head of the Federation, which this year celebrates its 40th anniversary”.

For her part, Blanca Sorigué, CEO at CZFB and SIL, explained that “it is great news to be able to hold a congress where European and Latin American logistics can feed off each other, establishing business and collaboration synergies“. Sorigué recalled that “we are very pleased that ALACAT has once again chosen SIL to hold its congress after the success of the editions held at SIL 2016 and 2019”.