Ocean Ecostructures' artificial reefs for regenerating the marine environment are expanding. The Barcelona-based startup has closed a €3 million round to expand its reach into ports, submarine cable lines, and oil platforms around the world. With the funds it has secured, it is now focusing on its international expansion through the creation of subsidiaries and is taking its first step toward entering the Middle East.

At lunchtime, everyone sits at the same table. Someone mentions that a client who interests more than one of the diners will soon arrive, and that by the end of the day, he'll have had three meetings when he only came for one. Although it may seem like it, the people sharing this conversation every lunchtime don't work for the same company. They are employees of the more than ten projects that have already set up shop at the Blue Tech Port. hub of the Port of Barcelona's blue economy. This is explained by the director of the BCN Nautical Cluster, Clàudia Parera. They were among the first to arrive at the innovation center that has implemented the infrastructure for the former sheds –port warehouses– on the Sant Bertran wharf, next to the Ronda Litoral and just beyond the Trasmed boarding terminal. A new chapter for a complex built in the 1960s, which had been forgotten.