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The great event of the logistics, Sil begins tomorrow

24/05/2004

on May 24, 2004

Since morning and until the next 28 Friday, will be held in Barcelona, in the fairground of Montjuïc 1, the sixth edition of the international trade fair for logistics, a Hall recognized nationally and internationally, born of the need for the sector of the logistics of having a framework where to expose their products and where to talk in depth of the present and the future of it, which has become in a few years in the great Hall of the logistics Spanish and be among the first in Europe.

This year the event will have a surface of 70,000 square meters and if in the previous edition were reached 33,000 visitors and 2,300 attendees to the Conference, this year is expected to largely overcome these figures. Key to its success, since its first edition in 1999, has mainly been great complicity with the sector, which has unconditionally supported it since its inception. The great transfer of knowledge that provides through its Symposium, is another remarkable element which also helps to convert Barcelona, for a few days, at the epicenter of the logistical knowledge at the global level.

For this Edition, SIL offers important new features: increases the trade fair area dedicated solely to the maintenance result of the agreement with the Spanish Association of maintenance, AEM, thus strengthening the presence of companies in the sector of maintenance. Also in the VII Symposium, which is traditionally organized along with the Spanish logistics centre - Cel-will also count with the participation of the Spanish Association of encoding commercial, Aecoc, to bet decisively for the SIL, which allows to predict, without any doubt, that attendance at this important Symposium beat all records.

It will also boost the programme Al - Invest, as an instrument of cooperation between European SMEs and Latin American businesses and will be organized the 2nd logistics Mediterranean Forum and their corresponding business meetings, together with the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce and with the collaboration of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and industry of the Mediterranean (Ascame). In addition, as always, there will be the smart store, made in collaboration with the Icil and the AEM, the day of logistics port, the day of zones and deposits francs and the Cidem Conference on innovation in production and logistics.

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