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Navalia 2024 and Maritime Market Visit
- Market visit alongside Navalia, held 21–23 May 2024 in Vigo, Spain; listing classifies it as an ended event in maritime. Organiser: Innovation Norway. Partners: Maritime CleanTech and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Madrid. Contact: Marie Ramsdal (marie.ramsdal@innovationnorway.no).
- The visit was aimed at Norwegian green-maritime businesses exploring Spain, seeking customers/partners, or expanding locally. Navalia is a biennial shipbuilding exhibition covering shipyards and related sectors, offshore, maritime services, ports, engineering, shipowners, public institutions and finance. Vigo was described as Spain’s shipbuilding centre, with 18 large private yards and one public yard.
- The group programme included Navalia access and accreditation, welcome dinner, seminar, Norwegian–Spanish maritime networking reception, and tailored market visits to shipyards, ports and maritime associations. Innovation Norway offered matchmaking and help arranging meetings based on participant interests. Participants could join the Innovation Norway Norwegian stand (Hall H, H92), place marketing materials, display a logo, and appear as co-exhibitors in Navalia’s online catalogue/app.
- Participation cost: €400 per person excluding VAT, including the listed event and visit activities. Optional stand/co-exhibitor participation cost €300 per company. Participants paid their own flights, hotels and other travel costs; the page linked a Navalia hotel-offer PDF. No company/attendee roster or detailed day-by-day agenda shown. ESG and responsible-business due-diligence conditions applied.