As long as there is ice at the poles and no new routes open up that mutate our map (even more), the Port of Barcelona will have room to run. These and other corners of the world could, in not many years, constitute new transit routes that compete with classic trade routes. And this could affect us, in terms of the port. But until this happens, we must squeeze the hen so that it continues to lay many (golden) eggs. Also in terms of innovation and internationalization of Barcelona and the country as a whole.
Barcelona, in this sense, they admit, has a powerful brand that, furthermore, is accompanied by a knowledge of "what it wants to be when it grows up" that makes it unique in the eyes of the markets. In Catalonia as a whole, however, this definition needs to be further concretized. Work needs to be done on it.
In any case, in Barcelona, a city where great things continue to happen, this summer and autumn we will have an America's Cup where, in Salvadó's very graphic description, "the boats fly." It is not a metaphor. It is real. And that is why he sees the competition more "between engineers than between sailors."
What does this mean? Well, that research in high-precision technology will once again take a leap, with the excuse of this competition that will take place in Barcelona, and that Castellanos, Salvadó and company will already be attentive to catch on the fly (never better said) everything that, incidentally, can take root here without being carried away by the current.
I leave you here the links to recover the conversation on Spotify or Youtube.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qyLOLk3CC5AL9oMRMo4k9?si=CGAXhXfpR7uHiALas-1M2A