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10/06/2006
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More than 2,000 professionals take part in the parallel activities
The Technical Conferences break records of attendance
The International Symposium SIL- Cinco Días and the 4th Mediterranean Logistics and Transport Forum, the main courses of the parallel activities of the Exhibition.
The 8th International Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition once more brought in a wide variety of Technical Conferences and forums. There were more than fifty sessions with over one hundred speakers and which are estimated as having been attended by more than 2,000 logistics professionals. This figure is higher than last year, and confirms the interest aroused in these meetings, which have become one of the essential points of the SIL.
One of the most outstanding parallel activities once more was the International Symposium SIL- Cinco Días, which in its ninth edition was presented under the title Where is logistics going towards?” The programme this year had two special guests: Antoni Brufau, CEO of Repsol YPF, who was entrusted with opening the meeting, and Jaques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission and Transport Commissioner of the Union, who put the final touch on a successful edition with his closing speech.
This year, the symposium, which was participated in by more than one hundred companies and which was structured in a single day, tabled such interesting questions as the role of Spain and Italy in the European logistics panorama and the relations between both countries, logistics in the Autonomous Communities, the possible applications of RFID and the projection of the Spanish logistics companies of the European Union.
Another important event that the Exhibition brought in was the Mediterranean Logistics and Transport Forum, organised by Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce, and Industry (ASCAME) and which in its fourth edition, under the title “Mediterranean Multimodal: links for an approach. Towards 2010”, deepened in the importance of creating a multimodal transport system within the framework of Euro-Mediterranean co-operation with its sights set on the future free-trade area.
As in its previous editions, the Forum, which brought together more than 500 companies from 20 countries of the Mediterranean and closed with more than 1,000 business contacts, had a high participation and was consolidated as a permanent referent of discussion on matters of interest and the new policies of the logistics and transport sector in the Pan-Euro Mediterranean zone.
Business Meetings on Logistics and Transport were also carried out in the Forum, the aim of which was to deepen in the internationalisation of the sector and offer a meeting point between potential collaborating companies with activities of interest in all the logistics sub-sectors.
In addition to these meetings, which have already become a classic of the SIL, the exhibition welcomed a large variety of Technical Conferences, and particularly the first Material Handling and Storage Conference, which focused in this first edition on security in storage environments and the importance of human resources in the logistics environment.
The exhibition also received the 6th edition of the Port Logistics Conference, which this year was carried out under the title “Ports integration at the logistics networks”, and which, on this occasion, focused on the development strategies of railway and port terminals in Europe and the strategies of the railway operators with respect to sea transport.
Likewise, the Exhibition brought in a new Railway Conference, which discussed the challenges of the present and future of the railway sector and this year placed special emphasis on enhancing the “interface” between ports and railways in the European Union. The programme included the participation of different railway and national and European port authorities and entities.
Finally, we must stress the Conference on Free Zones and Bonded Warehouses, which set up a round table to discuss the problem of regimes of suspension in the new customs code, and the CIDEM Conference which, under the title “Innovate for Progress: Innovation in Production and Logistics” analysed the latest integral logistic tendencies, the possibilities of RFID, and stock re-supplying and inverse logistics in the textile sector.
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(Source: silbcn.com)
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