The International Logistics Exhibition (LIS) closed its 22nd edition this Thursday with 12,152 attendees after three days of event at Fira de Barcelona’s Montjuïc venue. In a statement this Thursday, the show, organized by the Barcelona Free Zone Consortium (CZFB), has advanced that its next edition will take place in June 2023. Attendees at the fair come from 81 countries, of which 29 are European, 18 from Africa, 17 from America, 16 from Asia and 1 from Oceania, and the salon has registered 6,620 contacts in the Cercle Networking.
For the organization, the show has reaffirmed with this edition its role as “key meeting point” of the logistics sector and has claimed the importance of the sector in the economy. The special delegate of the State in the CZFB, Peter Navarrohas maintained that “the success” of SIL Barcelona has been possible thanks to the talent of all the companies and professionals who have participated in it.
SIL is a very particular fair, whose success lies more in its ability to connect professionals from the sector than in achieving attendance records. The city’s hotel establishments have clearly perceived the positive influence of SIL, with many related business events. This year SIL redoubled its commitment to ‘networking’, generating more than 6,620 contacts. Of these, 6,300 have been produced within the framework of the Círculo Logístico and the Círculo Retailer, and the Círculo Start-ups has allowed the creation of 320 new opportunities. But beyond that accounting, in the logistics sector, social acts shared between competitors prevail, human relationships that the pandemic had broken in the last two years.
A total of 314 speakers from companies such as Akzo Nobel, Bayer, Boboli, Bosch, Bricomart, Caprabo, Capsa Food, Celsa Group, Damm, Danone, Decathlon, among others, have addressed the challenges faced by industry and logistics business from innovation 4.0 and digitization, sustainability, and talent in more than 80 sessions divided into 4 stages: Logistics & Industry, Business Transformation, eDelivery Barcelona, and MedaLogistics Week. A total of 3,386 visitors have attended one of the 81 sessions that the SIL eDelivery Congress has had. However, the fair must improve the venue, whose acoustics are not perfect for holding conferences and simultaneous debates.
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SIL has had the participation of executives from 650 companies with 20% internationality, with the presence of countries such as Argentina, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Slovakia, France, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Taiwan, UAE, UK or USA, among others.
During this last day, the Deloitte Real Estate team has presented its annual Logistics Insights 2022 study, in which it has analyzed investment and financing in the Spanish logistics market, and the most current trends in the sector. In addition, the Port of Barcelona has held a press conference and presentation of the Business Mission of the Port of Barcelona to Thailand, in addition to its traditional closing meeting of the SIL that has brought together a large part of the port community. As the guest autonomous community of this edition, Extremadura has once again exhibited its logistics potential.