Leading Spanish express carrier Spain-Tir has expanded its daily 24-hour Europe road service fromBarcelona following a tripling in demand over the past decade.
Now the company, the Spanish market leader in industrial packages with a share of 18%, hastrucks leaving the city several times a day for destinations such as Paris, Rotterdam, Frankfurt,Milan and Lisbon.
“The international express service allows the delivery of goods in 24 hours to specificcities and destinations within a 100 km radius of them,” the company said, announcing the improvedservice in its newsletter this month. “Vehicles loaded at 15.00 hours arrive at between 08.00 and10.00 the following morning.”
“The large demand for some of the destinations has seen the daily service double or triplewith various hours of departure,” the company added.
Spain-Tir has been busy expanding services and capacity both inside and outside Europe thisautumn. It has opened a new 3,600 sqm warehouse complex in Murcia, bringing to 65 the number ofcentres it operates in Spain and Portugal.
In another move at enhancing its Spanish services, Spain-Tir is installing video surveillancesystems in all its warehouses to monitor cargo movements. The aim of the system, says the firm, isto increase security inside its facilities, reduce losses and improve merchandise handling.
So far, 130 of the advanced technology cameras have been installed at Spain-Tir’s Madrid,Barcelona, Valencia and Seville facilities, but this is to be expanded nationwide.
Some 20% of warehoused goods in Spain go unaccounted for, according to a report this year bythe Spanish encoding association, Aecoc, cited by Spain-Tir.
Another 5% are lost in transport, the association says, with Spanish retailers losing tens ofmillions of euros per year in sales revenues due to the disappearance of the stock.
