São Paulo – Next month, Morocco should promote a logistics conference, to have Brazil among its focuses. The meeting is called Med Log, the Mediterranean Logistics Conference, and the main focus is international trade of food and chilling logistics. Brazil was chosen as the focus for the debates of the second day of the conference – to take place from April 15th to 16th – as it is one of the main producers and exporters of food.
The first day of the conference will take place at the Mövenpick Hotel, in Tangier, and the second at Tangier Med Port, which organises the activities. According to adviser at the embassy of Brazil to Rabat, Marcelo Viegas, Morocco is interested in closer ties with the Southern Hemisphere and chose Brazil as the country is a great exporter of food and, therefore, reference in the transport of chilled products.
The main talk, on April 16th should be by the head minister of the Special Ports Secretariat, Pedro Brito. The director of the National Agency for Water Transport (Antaq), Fernando Antonio Brito Fialho, and the participants should also include Brazilian businessmen in the areas of logistics and exports.
Tanger Med, according to Viegas, is a gateway for entrance of products not just to Morocco, but also to the European market, the United States, and to African and Arab countries, with which Morocco has trade agreements.
This is the third edition of the conference, promoted by the Tangier-Mediterranean Special Agency. The agency is connected to the government of Morocco and is responsible for administration of Tanger Med.
The last Med Log attracted 400 people from the Arab country and from abroad, according to information published in the site of the meeting. At the conference there should be talks and debates, space for business meetings among participants and visits to the port.
Tanger Med is 40 kilometres away from Tangier and is the largest Mediterranean port in Africa, in terms of capacity. It includes not only export structures but also free zones where installed companies have export benefits.
According to Viegas, if there is a specific level of nationalisation of components, products made there may benefit, for example, from trade agreements that Morocco has with other countries. The port started operating in 2007 and large expansion works are forecasted.
*Translated by Mark Ament
