With the aim of presenting the exportable offer of solutions, goods and services for the Latin American aquaculture industry, a delegation of six companies from the Los Lagos region, participated in the Aqua Expo Guayaquil 2024. Business meeting recognized as the main technical and commercial forum of the shrimp sector in Latin America, and that thanks to the management of ProChile allowed the participating delegation to be part of a strategic platform to promote their innovative solutions and explore new business opportunities in the Ecuadorian market.
Organized by the National Chamber of Aquaculture of Ecuador, Aqua Expo Guayaquil attracted more than 10 thousand visitors and nearly 400 exhibitors from around the world this year. During the four-day event, companies Patagonia ROV, Consultant Green Aqua, TecNovum, Tekfish, Extrail and the Aquaculture Innovation Club they carried out an agenda of activities on the ground, which allowed them to meet a shrimp company and a shrimp processor. The tour included presentations of the cultivation, processing and packaging processes of this product.
The agenda also included instances of networking organized by ProChile in collaboration with PromPeru, which facilitated meetings between Chilean entrepreneurs, Peruvians and key actors in the regional aquaculture industry.
“The participation of companies from the region in Aqua Expo Guayaquil reaffirms the potential for innovation and quality of the Chilean supply in the aquaculture industry. This type of event allows companies in our country not only to present their technological solutions, but also to establish strategic alliances to open new markets. In this way, we can help to integrate commercially the aquaculture industries of Chile and Ecuador, which, yes well they are different, they can seek mutual solutions,” said Ricardo Arriagada, regional director of ProChile Los Lagos.
Aqua Expo Guayaquil is an event that combines a trade fair and a scientific-technical congress in which topics such as nutrition and food practices, genetic improvement, prevention and management of diseases, market trends, efficiency and technological innovations as well as crop diversification are addressed. This context allowed Chilean companies to share their knowledge and advance their insertion into the market Ecuadorian.
This was acknowledged by Hector Catalán, new business agent of Patagonia Rov: “We are for the first time in Ecuador sharing in a stand of ProChile. It is a fairly interesting fair with many suppliers, producers and potential customers. We hope that all the information we collect will be able to analyze it well in Chile and return quickly to bring important solutions to this industry that requires them quickly. We believe that we can be an important contribution from Chile to the production of shrimp here in Ecuador.”
For his part, Zacharias Chacón, of the company TecNovum developing technologies for water quality, it also projects interesting opportunities: “We have been connected three days with producers, specific suppliers for the shrimp industry. We have known the experience of aquaculture in this region and also the potential of our solutions in such an attractive and important market as is the shrimp market here in Ecuador.”
“We have had many meetings thanks to ProChile’s office here in Ecuador. They've been very productive days. We haven’t stopped all these days, so we’re bringing a lot of good news to Chile,” added Marcia Tomasoni, representative of the Aquaculture Innovation Club.
In this way, with the support of ProChile Los Lagos, Chilean companies concluded an active participation in Expo Guayaquil generating new commercial alliances and projecting future businesses for the development of aquaculture in Ecuador and Latin America as also suppliers of innovative solutions and high quality in the international market.
