The technological platforms of the ports of Barcelona and Shanghai, Portic and Easipass respectively, are studying possible ways to collaborate and link their systems to allow their users to profit from both of them. This was announced last Tuesday in Barcelona by Jaume Ribera, lecturer at IESE and Shanghai's Business School, CEIBS, in a workshop centred on the challenges of exporting to China.
Progress is already being made on the work intended to link both platforms, although Jaume Ribera admitted that for the systems to be widely used, a critical mass of support is needed; for this reason, "the Port of Shanghai should not only be interested in establishing the link with Portic, but also in using that as a starting point to establish common standards for an Asian network of ports covering 80% of the goods transported in this environment."
The workshop was also attended by the Deputy Strategy and Commercial Director of the Port of Barcelona, Santiago García-Milà, who stressed that China is the largest commercial partner of the Port of Barcelona; not only because it is the market of origin for most imports, but also because "China already receives 8% of all exports made from the Port of Barcelona," a percentage that proves that Spain's sales to the Asian country continue to grow.
In this sense, Santiago García-Milà stated that efforts should be made to continue increasing the exports to China, to which end the Port of Barcelona is developing several plans of action, such as "strengthening the links with Chinese operators through events like the recent SINO European Freight Forwarders Conference held at the Catalan capital, or the analysis of the needs of the supply chain between the Mediterranean and Asia."
Source: diariodelpuerto.com
