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Type of Consulate: Honorary General

Name of Consul: Carlos J. Lerchundi Laidler

Jurisdiction: Northern Spain. Capital Bilbao, provinces of Alava, Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa

Address: c/ Las Mercedes, 31, 4º - 48930 - LAS ARENAS - VIZCAYA - SPAIN

Phone: 34 - 4 - 480 03 28

Fax: 34 - 4 - 4641124

E-mail address: c.lerchundi@cgac.es

Purpose: to assist the Southafrican citizens (individuals and corporations) at their mercantile and lawful concerns, and to develop trade and industrial relations between the Southafrican and the Basque business communities.

 Areas of developing business:

A. Industrial sector

• Steel and pipe industry
• Fishing
• Automotive
• Machine tools
• Capital goods
• Foundry & Forging

B. Consumer sector

• Fresh fruits
• Beverages
• Wine
• Fresh flowers

C. Joint ventures
• Between industrial Basque companies and local Southafrican companies to achieve regional projects in Southafrica and Southern Africa developing countries in civil engineering and infrastructure, supported in international funding via international institutions or bilateral country finance.
• Education and learning process: local partnership in know-how transfer of managerial skill schemes, based in methodological systems envisaged to up grade the knowledge of the managers at their strategic and operational decisions related to the internationalisation of the micro, small and medium size southafrican company.