The award is named after José Antonio Rodríguez-Poch, who was director of Navantia Bahía de Cádiz
The State delegate, Fran González, thanked the award and had words of remembrance and praise for the former shipyard director who recently died.
The highly innovative incubator linked to the Blue Economy of the Cádiz Free Zone, Incubazul, has been recognized today with the José Antonio Rodríguez-Poch Award for the promotion of the naval sector, awarded by the Cádiz Naval Maritime Cluster (CMNC) and which the name of the former director of Navantia Bahía de Cádiz who died suddenly a little over a month ago.
The Cadiz Cluster has made Incubazul worthy of the award for its contribution to the promotion of talent, entrepreneurship and innovation in the naval maritime sector, in addition to its great work as an institution, its trajectory and contribution to blue entrepreneurship in the province of Cádiz and in Andalusia, as the Andalusian Maritime Cluster recognized a few months ago by awarding the Free Trade Zone incubator the Proa Award.
The delegate of the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, has collected the award on behalf of the Free Zone and Incubazul and has been very satisfied with the award, which “represents enormous support for the initiative that is already a real driver of innovation and talent detection and an incentive to continue working along the same lines in collaboration with all the operators of the ecosystem.” It is, he has said, “a project that works and that is promoting and consolidating magnificent ideas.”
Fran González added that the Bay of Cadiz is in a position to establish itself “as a recognizable and recognized hub in the Blue Economy, something that will have a positive impact throughout Andalusia because Cádiz is already a benchmark in the sector.”
After thanking him for the award, Fran González had words of remembrance and praise for the figure of José Antonio Rodríguez-Poch, director of Navantia who recently died and was linked throughout his life to the naval sector, as he was the son and grandson of Bazán workers. and spent most of his career in the shipyards. “This Bay and its maritime and naval activity cannot be understood without Navantia and José Antonio represents the vision of innovation of the plant and the entire sector, so we are honored by the award and we are honored that it bears his name.”
The person in charge of the Free Zone has highlighted that “José Antonio was a tireless worker who has left an irreparable void from a professional and human point of view, under whose direction the shipyards completed the construction of the Avante 2200 corvettes for Saudi Arabia, a program "which has raised the international projection of the company."
