The 5th Mediterranean Forum will tackle the movement of people and goods

The conferences will analyse the challenges to connect the logistics and transport services of the future area of free trade

SIL 2007 offers up to 7 technical conferences focused on the debate and the logistics knowledge, with the participation of more than 2.000 professionals

5th February 2007.- Once again, the International Logistics and Material Handling Exhibition will become a pole of knowledge with the celebration of a wide programme of technical conferences within the event. A part from being a business platform, the 9th SIL will gather within Gran Via M2 facilities of Barcelona the debates, analysis and discussions of more than 2.000 professionals that will transform the event into a huge summit on logistics strategies.
One of the more significant events of this wide offer of Technical Conferences is represented, due to its speakers level, by the 5th Mediterranean Logistics and Transport Forum. This MEDA-Logistics & Transport Forum is presented under the title of The Approaching Mediterranean and pretends to deepen into the importance of the land transport and logistics services. Its aim is to connect the Mediterranean to facilitate the movement of people and goods in front of the challenges of globalisation and competition from other areas from a world level.
Subscribed by 2.500 participant companies in the 4 past editions, the 5th Mediterranean Forum is organized by The Zona Franca Consortium (El Consorci de la Zona Franca) and  the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce (La Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona), with the collaboration of the Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the Mediterranean (ASCAME). Among the long list of speakers for this edition, ministers from Spain, Algeria and Egypt will be present, as well as those top executives of organizations and companies located in Dubai, Lebannon, Jordan, Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium. All of them will try to define strategies  that allow the economic development, increase the foreign trade, attract the foreign investment and create multimodal platforms in the Mediterranean Zone. Thus, national and international policies coordinated with the private sector are needed. This is the summary of the programme:

5th June 2007
·11.00 am: SIL 2007 opening

·12.00 pm: Plenary Session: Mediterranean Airports, Launch Hubs, connection platforms.

·2.00 pm: Official Lunch

·4.30 to 7 pm: Business Meetings

 6th June 2007
·10 am: Plenary Session: Land Transport, Connections for Mobility

· 12.30 to 2.00 pm: Plenary Session. Guest Country: Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria. A link between three continents: Great business opportunities and business experiences in the sector

· 4.00 to 7.00 pm: Business Meetings

A part from the MEDA -  Logistics & Transport Forum, SIL 2007 fulls up its offer with technical semminars and business conferences with a large programme full of knowledge, that includes the following events:
·10th International Symposium SIL

·7th   Ports Logistics Conference

.Conference on Free Zones and Bonded Warehouses

·3rd Railway Conference

.CIDEM Conference

·2nd Material Handling and Warehousing Conference

·1st RFID Conference (New!)