International Exhibition of Logistics and Maintenance of Barcelona

International Exhibition of Logistics and Maintenance of Barcelona

Jordi Cornet, Special State Delegate in the Consortium of the Zona Franca de Barcelona and Chairman of the SIL, and Blanca Sorigué,  General Director of the International Exhibition of Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition (SIL), will offer a press conference on Thursday 2 June at 12:00 pm in the Auditorium Press the Consortium of the Zona Franca de Barcelona to present to the media the 18th edition of the International Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition, which will take place from 7 to 9 June in hall 8 of the exhibition Montjuic Spain Square of Fira de Barcelona.

SIL 2016 will have the participation of over 600 companies, more than 45% of them are international, which will present more than 120 new world exclusive. Within the SIL’s largest industry International Congress will be held with a total of 30 sessions with 233 speakers worldwide prestige that present a total of 114 cases of success. At the same time, the SIL 2016 will also be the venue of the largest Congress of Freight Forwarders and Logistics Operators in Latin America and the Caribbean, ALACAT Congress. This conference will feature 8 sessions and 45 world-class speakers.

Yiwu participation as guest city of SIL 2016, creating a new area dedicated to new technologies for logistics innovation-the SIL Smart & Innovation-, an offer of more sectored exhibition, and the creation of the first edition of the SIL ICIL Awards for Best Innovation Hall will be some of the many attractions that presents the SIL 2016 in its 18th edition, the age of majority.

Barcelona will become, once again, the European capital of logistics during these days, by bringing together all sectors that are part of the logistics chain. It is recalled that the SIL is an international exhibition of logistics leader in Spain and the second in Europe.

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Internet of Things Solutions World Congress

The main event on industrial IoT will feature the top 10 real applications testbeds

Internet of Things Solutions World Congress

The Internet of Things Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) will hold its next edition in the Gran Via de Fira de Barcelona in October 2016. Organized by Fira de Barcelona in association with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the exhibition and conference is objective overcome their previous records by connecting technology and industry and creating the best possible for companies and experts together to address strategies and development projects of industrial internet platform.

In the next edition, Congress structured conferences in six areas: Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics, Healthcare, Energy and Utilities, Technology, and Innovation. The IOTSWC Program Committee – made up of senior professionals in the world of IoT and technologically innovation specialists selected international figures in these fields as featured speakers at the conference program. In addition the lounge has launched a Call for Papers in order to include in the same program those contributions, solutions and most relevant initiatives in the field of IoT.

The event has also launched two calls: A Call for Testbeds and Call for Awards. The first of these calls will select the best banks in real tests with solutions applied industrial internet and will present at the conference on a specific space located in the heart of the exhibition area. Specifically, the top ten testbeds will have a prominent role in the exhibition. The last of the three calls reward the best solutions presented by the exhibitors in each of the program areas and also the best testbed.

In all three calls, the Program Committee will be responsible for analyzing all nominations and select the best. The Committee this year includes senior management representatives from companies such as ABB, Accenture, Cisco, Deloitte, EMC, GE, Industrial Internet Consortium, Infineon Technologies; Intel, Ipso, Microsoft, National Instruments, Object Management Group, SAP and Schneider Electric.

The show’s director, Roger Bou said that “we are excited about this next edition of IOTSWC. The first edition exceeded all expectations, so we are convinced that the next edition will also encourage the adoption of these technologies among companies “” We are dealing with a set of disruptive technologies that will change the industry as we know so gather in Barcelona all key actors on the stage of industrial internet is undoubtedly the best way to make our contribution to this global transformation, “added Bou.

In its first edition, IOTSWC featured lectures by 120 experts, 88 exhibitors and 4,500 visitors from 53 countries and for their next appointment I expected to exceed these figures and consolidate its leadership in the global picture IOTSWC industrial IoT.

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Amazon next to the airport of El Prat de Llobregat

Amazon will invest $ 100 million in its logistics center in El Prat

Amazon next to the airport of El Prat de Llobregat

The Minister of Enterprise & employment, Felip Puig, advanced Tuesday that Amazon will invest around 100 million euros in its logistics center in El Prat de Llobregat, including the cost of land and investment in the construction of ships, technology and internal facilities.

The minister said on Catalunya Radio, plans e-commerce giant, which on Monday was awarded a plot of 150,000 square meters owned by the Catalan Land Institute in El Prat, near the port and airport of Barcelona, which provides lift its large logistics center of reference in southern Europe.

Although the Amazon multinational has prevented advance their plans for the land of El Prat, for which he paid 30 million euros, Puig explained the great figures of the project and added that the logistics center should be in place “after summer 2017 “. The minister also said he expects the final agreement for the sale of the plot to close within a month, and that the works, that will last “a year and a half,” starting soon.

Amazon’s offer is subject to conditions, including approval of planning and construction licenses and corresponding arrival of the metro line 9 to the area, but the minister was assumed that these conditions will be met and considered the investment is “safe” but appealed in any case keep “some understanding”. the introduction of Amazon, said the minister, it will generate “more than 1,500 direct jobs and even more indirect.”

Moreover, the minister accused the Spanish government of “filter” in March last year, Amazon plans in El Prat in order to “hamper” this investment, “not to bear fruit.” “Surely tried to convince them that this operation could make near Madrid,” he added the minister, who recalled that the group already has a logistics center in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) and recently announced its expansion, for which she will pass 32,000 square meters to 75,000 square meters, well below the 210,000 meters that have the center of El Prat, which will make it the largest group of the peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe.

Against the optimism of the Catalan government and the city of El Prat, the general secretaries of CCOO and UGT de Catalunya, Joan Carles Gallego and Josep Maria Alvarez, were critical of Amazon.

Gallego said that Amazon does not distinguish “to be champion” in terms of quality work, which has insisted that be vigilant in ensuring the quality of employment generated by the new center, which will create jobs both direct and indirect .

Alvarez warned that “these businesses require little skilled labor and low wages work”, and said that in times of economic crisis and high unemployment it seems that anything goes and you do not mind the quality of jobs. UGT leader questioned logistic centers should be located in the environment in the metropolitan area of the Catalan capital, which has said it can become a “fudge unsorted”.

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