16th edition of the Alas Awards
In its International Career category, the awards were given to Fresón de Palos as a company and to the Bahía de Algeciras Port Authority as an entity.
Last week, Andalusia Trade, the Business Agency for the Transformation and Economic Development of the Junta de Andalucía He celebrated the 16th edition of the Alas Awards. In its category of International Career awarded the awards to Strawberry of Palos as a company and Algeciras Bay Port Authority as an entity.
The company SCA Santa María La Rábida, Fresón de Palos, is a company from Huelva with 40 years of history that has become the largest producer of strawberries in Europe. It currently represents the union of 150 partners, with an annual turnover of 165 million euros.
The cooperative has more than a thousand employees, more than 5.000 workers in the field each season, and has a branch in Italy, in as much as Europe is its main international trade destination.
The company carries out its activity on 1.300 hectares of crops, which generate 70 million kilos of fruit per year, in a privileged environment that is its seal of quality.
Strawberry of Palos develop your business abroad successfully, so that it has great acceptance in the international markets. Currently, it operates in 23 countries, so 60% of its turnover is international.
To address this challenge, the Regional Jury of the Alas Awards for the Internationalization of the Andalusian Company has chosen Fresón de Palos as the winner in the International Career category in the category of Company. The Andalusian cooperative now focuses its efforts on its commitment to the environment, for which it works to reduce the carbon and water footprint of its crops.
Fresón de Palos maintains a fluid relationship with the current Andalucía TRADE to enhance your international strategy, so that it has participated in more than a dozen actions since 2002. Its participation in the main fairs of the fruit and vegetable sector stands out, such as Fruit Attraction or Fruit Logistica; as well as business opportunities and individual projects in markets of interest such as USA or Poland. Furthermore, they have been presented on various occasions to the Wings Awards.
La Algeciras Bay Port Authority (APBA), through its ports Algeciras and Tarifa, is a facilitator of commercial relations between Andalusia and Spain with international markets and an intercontinental maritime bridge between Europe and Africa.
The Port of Algeciras is the intercontinental logistics platform and a reference intermodal port node in the Mediterranean, which leads container transit in the Strait, being the southern gateway to Europe for commercial traffic with Africa and America from the Mediterranean to Asia. It is configured as a strategic north-south and east-west navigation point and brings together maritime traffic that exceeds 115.000 ships per year.
The Port of Algeciras has established itself as fourth in the EU (European Union) in total volume; It is the first in efficiency in Europe; and tenth in the world in operational efficiency of container terminals, according to the World Bank. As a global hub, it is one of the main distribution centers in the International Trade, acting as a multiplier agent of business strategies at an international level.
Today, the Bahía de Algeciras Port deploys global maritime connectivity through which goods directly reach 200 ports in 70 countries. All this, through more than 140 regular maritime services provided by more than twenty shipping companies. Its main markets are, in addition to the block of European Union, United States, China, Morocco, India and the Philippines.
For this reason, the Regional Jury of the Alas Awards for the Internationalization of the Andalusian Company has chosen the Bahía de Algeciras Port Authority as the winner in the International Career category in the Entity category.
The APBA has worked in coordination with the current Andalusia TRADE since 2004 to promote the internationalization of companies, so it has participated in fairs, the organization of direct and reverse trade missions, the recent creation of Clubs for the United Kingdom, Asia, Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa, all strategic markets for the Bahía de Algeciras Port and its Port Community.
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