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Doing Business in Spain

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Although its economy was strong and growing immediately after the country joined the EU in 1986, it entered a severe economic depression in mid-2008. Bordering countries include Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Primary trading partners included France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the U.K. state of Kentucky.

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Bringing Freight Online with WebCargoNet and Freightos

Freightos

Back in 2008, first-year Spanish college students Manel Galindo and Enric Alventosa tested their software skills on the market “as a game”. In Portugal it took a mere two months to snap up every airline and capture 40% of the forwarder market. More tellingly, both share the same mission – making global trade frictionless.

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Interoceanic Passages

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meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5 billion in tolls were collected in 2008, with container ships accounting for 54% of the total. For more than a century, it was initially kept a secret in order to maintain the dominance of Portugal and Spain in the trade of spices and silk from Asia. meters in 2001. A total of $1.32

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