Spain’s state-owned postal operator Correos this week opened a new EUR 7.5 million state-of-the-artsorting and distribution centre in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, the 16th out of 17 such mail hubs in a
nationwide modernisation programme that began in 2001.The installation, which measures over 5,000 sqm, will handle up to half a million standardmail items every day in the centre, equipped with the latest sorting technology, which will dealwith all outgoing and incoming mail for the island.
The modernisation programme, costing hundreds of millions of euros, has already seen newsorting hubs installed in Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia, Oviedo, Tenerife, Vitoria, Barcelona, Sevilla,Malaga, Valladolid, Santiago de Compostela, Zaragoza, Granada, Palma de Mallorca and Merida.
Work on a final facility in Alicante is underway, said Correos. “The objective is improvequality in the distribution of mail with equipment that can handle more items in the same timeperiod,” the group said in a statement.
