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“We are people and people close deals”. With these words, Patricia Ramos, Marketing Manager of Navantia, showed satisfaction with her shipyard for its participation as an exhibitor in the second edition of World Maritime Week. Ramos placed special emphasis on the human aspect of the meeting, organised by Bilbao Exhibition Centre, given that “with these […]

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New legislation reducing CO2 emissions and offshore energy as a huge business niche for the maritime sector, in addition to the digital transformation of the ports and generational replacement in the fishing industry, were the focal points of the presentations in the Sinaval, FuturePort, Eurofishing and Marine Energy Week conferences, held between 12 and 14 […]

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Offshore energy has been the driver of the renewable marine energy conference Marine Energy Week and, just like the rest of the World Maritime Week events, it has had an exhibiting area, and has developed an interesting conference programme. Yesterday’s meeting hosted the “Offshore Energy, a Growing Market” conference, which was opened by Iñigo Ansola, […]

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The B2B meetings serve as a negotiating space for prescribers and suppliers to exchange information. The 35 international buyers invited this year arrived to an agenda packed with meetings with the exhibiting companies; in all, 458 meetings were held in what is, undoubtedly, one of the strategic elements of World Maritime Week. One of the […]

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The importance of natural gas in the Basque Country’s energy mix and proposed new horizons in maritime transport were two of the main points in the speech by the director general of the Basque Energy Agency (EVE), Iñigo Ansola. As the director general of the EVE outlined, “Gas is one of the main energy sources […]

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“Digitalisation is not a trend but a requirement for being agile and more efficient, and constitutes one of the strands of our Strategic Plan”, explained Ricardo Barkala, President of the Bilbao Port Authority, at the beginning of his speech on the first day of Futureport, earlier this morning. During his address, Barkala listed all the […]

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Last night, as part of World Maritime Week, prizes were given for the IV FINE Awards, recognising the work and efforts of the prizewinners from the various outstanding categories: ship, shipyard, ship-owner, engineering project, professional and fishing institutions: with special acknowledgements for other sectors represented at the Meetings such as marine energy and the ports. […]

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Representatives from 35 international companies who have come as invited purchasers to WORLD MARITIME WEEK, have already begun the B2B meetings scheduled in their agendas. From ten o’clock in the morning and throughout today and tomorrow, a total of 458 meetings will be held in a space dedicated expressly for this purpose next to the […]

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Arantxa Tapia, Minister for Economic Development and Infrastructures of the Basque Government at the inauguration “The sea and technological innovation are two crucial aspects, inseparable and fully representative of what the economic and industrial activity of the Basque Country entails. Today, on the occasion of the inauguration of World Maritime Week at BEC, we are […]

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José de Lara, Vice-President of the Spanish Maritime Cluster, this morning opened the Sinaval Conference, discussing State Ships Vision and Trends in Maritime Security and Defence (Auditorium 1, BEC). “Defence and security are the essential guarantee of our future”, said Lara. Leading sector figures took part in round table discussion, moderated by Juan de La […]

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More than 70 companies from the naval and port sectors will gather at the World Maritime Week EXHIBITION AREA, occupying approximately 1,000 square metres of the Luxua Hall. None of the major national shipyards have failed to attend this international shipping industry event. Nor have any of the auxiliary companies, who may benefit from the […]

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The importance of international agreements to support the sector and sustainability as a key concept were the focus of the opening speech from Bittor Oroz, Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Policy of the Basque Government, during this morning’s Eurofishing conference. “The tuna sector is the main actor committed to the balanced and responsible […]

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Eight top speakers will share their views at the event The international maritime sector will gather from 12 to 14 February 2019 at WORLD MARITIME WEEK, at BEC. Over three days, top representatives will discuss the sector’s most important issues in four fields: naval, fishing, ports and energy. So far, shipowners and shipyards from 30 […]

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It has been a pleasure to assist to the launching ceremony of the factory ship “Argos Cíes”. It is one of the largest trawlers built in recent years. The shipyard Nodosa delivered it on October 17 in Marín to the company Armadora Pereira-Jupiter Fishing Ltd. The “Argos Cíes” is 76 meters long and 14 meters […]

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The event will take place on 12-14 February 2019 Intensifying the B2B meetings programme with an outstanding participation of European shipowners focused on special ships, betting on the advisers in the search for speakers for the congress section and attracting a greater number of international sector meetings are some of the strategic objectives of WORLD […]

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