Day 6: 7/11/23
This morning we woke up at 7am and headed off to our first visit of the day at the Port de Barcelona.
Notes from the port visit presentation:
- A port is a place with calm water where vessels can be properly operated
- The owner of the port land is the state
- The land is managed by local government agencies
The ports mission
- Create added value to the surrounding economy
- Increase competitiveness to its users
- Provide better logistics solutions end to end from the existing ones
- This can be attained via: sustainable growth (economic, social, environment), and by digitalization/ small ports
IV strategic plan 2021-2025
- Environmental sustainability- energy transition
- Economic sustainability- competitiveness
- Social sustainability- human capital
Environmental sustainability
- Waterfront electric action program
- Bet on LNG for mobility
- Rebates for green ships
- Electrical mobility
- Renewable energy program: solar wind
Increase of inter-modality
- Motorways of the sea
- Railway motorways
- Railway
Logistics specialization
- Warehousing
- Production services
- Distribution services
- Aftermarket services
- Specialized product segments: mango, desigual, custo, Bayer, Dow chemical, seat, ikea
Social sustainability: human capital
- Promoting training, employment, entrepreneurship and attraction of talent.
- Promoting equal opportunity
- Integration of the port in it’s urban
- Ensure people and facilities health and security
After our presentation at the port we went on a boat tour of the port as well. We then headed to lunch and then back to the hotel for about thirty minutes. Then we were off to our next presentation at a company called Perinter.
Notes from the presentation:
-they are a part of the Alonso group which strive to provide sustainable logistics.
Diversification
- Divisions:
- Food and beverage
- Furniture
- Fashion
- Forest products
- Project cargo
- Toys
- Pharma
- E-commerce
- Ceramic
Range of services:
- Maritime transport
- Land transport
- Air transport
- Infrastructures
- Project cargo
- Picking and packing
- Service e-commerce
The digital age of logistics
- Technology drives all operations and enhances customer experience
- It also boosts their software to be Abel to complete tasks quicker and more efficiently
After our meeting at Perinter, we headed back to our hotel via public bus and started working on our article review due tonight.