Andalucia TRADE hosts a round-table discussion to promote the shipbuilding industry as part of Navalia Meeting 2025-Blue Zone Forum
This initiative is in addition to the reverse mission in which companies from Morocco, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Canada have participated.
Andalucia TRADE, a public body of the Regional Government of Andalusia, has led a round-table discussion to showcase the capabilities and main challenges of the shipbuilding industry, as well as the institution’s advanced services and financial instruments to improve the sector’s competitiveness in Andalucia.
The round-table discussion, moderated by Javier Arnau, Director of Navalia, featured Rocío Muñoz, Director of Business Development and Value Support at Andalucia TRADE; José Luis García Zaragoza, President of the Maritime Naval Cluster; Pilar Carrato, Director of Innovation Financing at CDTI; and Isaac Pérez, Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Centre (CFA).
During her speech, Rocío Muñoz, Director of Business Development at Andalucia TRADE, highlighted the financial instruments and advanced services that the Andalusian public agency offers to support the region’s naval sector in addressing key challenges related to internationalisation, sustainability, and innovation. “Andalucia TRADE provides four lines of incentives for business investment totalling €255 million – supporting the launch of industrial projects and small businesses, development of industrial research and experimental development initiatives, and access to international markets through the new programme designed to boost foreign trade,” she explained.
These incentives are complemented by an advanced services system aimed at internationalising the Andalusian economy and promoting business innovation. These include advice on accessing EU funding (Framework Programme for R&I, Horizon Europe), partner search for R&D projects, support for innovation, technology valorisation and transfer (diagnosis, management, and improvement of innovation and technology transfer processes), protection of innovation and technology monitoring (consultation and advice on patent, trademark, and utility model procedures, industrial property strategy, and patent and technology monitoring reports), and advanced sustainability consultancy (a specialised service designed to support companies in their transition to more efficient and sustainable business models, thereby contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the United Nations 2030 Agenda).
This initiative is in addition to the reverse mission in which companies from Morocco, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Canada have participated, generating more than twenty meetings With Spanish companies involved.
Andalucía TRADE is the public body of the Regional Government (Junta de Andalucía) created to unify and promote policies supporting internationalisation, innovation, investment and business development in the region. On Friday, representatives of the Regional Government of Andalucia (Junta de Andalucía) will hold a meeting with the members of the Navalia Executive Committee and will host the ‘Invest in Andalusia’ conference, a round table discussion that will highlight the capabilities and main challenges of the naval sector, as well as the advanced services offered by Andalucía TRADE and financing instruments aimed at improving the competitiveness of the sector in Andalucia.
The participation of SMEs in this initiative is co-financed with funds from the European Union under the Andalucia Operational Programme FEDER 2021–2027, with an 85% contribution from the EU, or through any other eligible European programme co-financing this action.