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The SIL will give solutions for an efficient and sustainable logistics in Bacerlona

06/06/2013

6 June 2013

On 19 June, it will take place in the 'Room Palibex' of the Pavilion 8 of the Enclosure of Montjuïc of Fira of Barcelona SIL Chemical 2013, the second edition of a Day that aúna the chemicals and the logistics like engine of growth and competitiveness. SIL Chemical2013 celebrates in the frame of the 'International Living room of the Logistical' (SIL) and includes presentations on: intermodalidad in the transport of chemical products; efficiency and sustainability of the logistical chain and a Round Table on logistics, competitiveness and growth. Which doubt fits that the chemical industry is a strategic sector in Spain. With a figure of businesses of more than 56.000 million euros in 2012, generates 11% of the Gross Industrial Product of the country and is also the second exporter of the Spanish economy: in 2012, 51,3% of the turnover came from of the export.

45% of the total figure of businesses of the chemical sector corresponds to Catalonia. Tarragona specifically, with an annual production of 21 million tonnes is the chemical pole more important of Spain and south of Europe. This sector produces in Tarragona 44% of plastics of all the State and represents 25% of the Spanish chemical industry. Port Of Tarragona on the other hand, ensures the import of the necessary raw materials and is a road of export of the products manufactured. Port Of Tarragona and the chemical sector are key in the economic activity and improve jointly the internationalisation, the growth and the economic development of his area of influence. Port Of Tarragona is finalising the extension of the Dock of the Chemicals: 1.200 metres of line of rob new, a duplicate surface with 18 hectares more and an elder calado (until 16 m) for ships bigger. All this with the aim to give more service and capacity to the companies of the Clúster Chemical of Tarragona.

Program

16.30 h – 17.00 h: Bienvenida

Josep Andreu, president, port of Tarragona
Joan Pedrerol, president of the AEQT and director of the industrial complex of Repsol Tarragona
Ricard Font, secretary of infrastructures and mobility. Department of Territory and Sustainability -Government of Catalonia

17.00 h – 17.30 h: Logistics, competitiveness and growth. Round table

Jordi Gornals, director of Logistics Dow Chemical Iberian
Iñigo Rengifo, director of Logistics and Service to the Customer Repsol
Josep Enric Mañé, president of the Commission of Logistics of the AEQT and Director of Tepsa Tarragona

17.30 h – 17.45 h. Open turn of questions

17.45 h –18.15 h: Three cases of profitable efficiency in the chain intermodal