Spain: Costa Rica seeks to convert the Port of Algeciras into its business magnet

Published 2022년 5월 23일

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Costa Rican fruit and vegetable entrepreneurs, along with PROCOMER officials, have visited the Port of Algeciras to bolster commercial ties established in 2015. The Port has served as a significant gateway for Costa Rican exports, particularly pineapples and bananas, to Spain, accounting for 43% of total exports to the country. The visit aims to further strengthen this relationship and explore opportunities for expanding trade with Southern Europe and North Africa. The business program includes tours of facilities such as the Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTI Algeciras) container terminal and the Logistics Activities Zone (ZAL), with participation from various Costa Rican and Port of Algeciras businesses.

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By Editorial PortalPortuario.cl, @PortalPortuario, Fruit and vegetable entrepreneurs from Costa Rica, together with officials from the Central American country's foreign trade promoter (PROCOMER), have traveled to the Strait of Gibraltar dock to strengthen commercial relations that began with the Port of Algeciras in 2015 and materialized in 2019 with the signing of a memorandum of understanding. It is a "strategic" visit for the Central American country, as explained by PROCOMER's Export Director, Ávaro Piedra, who advocates turning the Port of Algeciras into "the business magnet for Costa Rica". The president of the Bay of Algeciras Port Authority (APBA), Gerardo Landaluce, highlights that Algeciras is "consolidated as a strategic port for international trade of Costa Rican companies and as a facilitator of opening new markets and businesses in Southern Europe, both in the Mediterranean and in North Africa. Costa Rica is the first trading partner for refrigerated traffic at the ...

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