The North American ports of Seattle and San Diego will be the guest ports for the seventh edition of ‘Smart Ports: Piers of the Future 2025’, within the ‘Smart City Expo World Congress’, which will be held in Barcelona from November 4 to 6, and which will be one of the main events of the ‘Tomorrow Blue Economy’. In this way, Seattle and San Diego will join the seven most advanced ports in the world in the field of innovation, such as Antwerp-Bruges, Busan, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal and Rotterdam. “Barcelona is one of the most important cities in Europe for innovation and one of the most important ecosystems in southern Europe,” said the president of the port of Barcelona, José Alberto Carbonell. This event has established itself as the main international forum for the sustainable and intelligent transformation of ports, with Barcelona as a global benchmark, and is part of the ‘Tomorrow Blue Economy’ congress.
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For its part, this will be the fourth edition of ‘Tomorrow Blue Economy’, a great opportunity for the blue economy and it is now fully consolidated. A total of 120 experts will meet at an event that will revolve around three axes: Smart Ports; Global Blue Financial Summit; Sustainable Ocean Summit. “One of the main new features this year, and one we are very proud of, is that we will have more than 30 startups in the pavilion who will present their blue economy projects,” highlighted Ugo Valentí, director of the Tomorrow Blue Economy World Congress and the Smart City Expo World Congress. By the way, in this edition there will be no Israel pavilion, although there will be a company dedicated to the technological field. A fact that the organization has labeled as circumstantial. “The blue economy is key to continuing to grow in the social and economic fabric of the city of Barcelona,” explained Nadia Quevedo, commissioner for economic promotion, trade and restoration of the Barcelona City Council, regarding the important role of the Tomorrow Blue Economy.
