Alonso: “The future of logistics is to offer the customer CO2 free kilometers”
“In less than 20 years, the only competitive logistics will be the one that will allow CO2-free kilometers to be offered to the end customer.” In this way, Jorge Alonso has synthesized the future of the business group during the intervention on the day ‘The Mediterranean Corridor in Spain: actions to be developed, industrial, agricultural, tourism and logistics’, organized in Valencia by Ferrmed and the Pro Foundation AVE. “We have a plan that will allow us to offer free CO2 services in 2030-2035,” said the president of Alonso.
The business group has also expressed that it is vital to work door to door for the final customer. A customer who increasingly values regularity, efficiency and that the service offered is economically and environmentally sustainable. “The customer has no special interest in moving his merchandise with one means or another. What you need is to transport your cargo from one place to another in the shortest time and at the best possible price, “he said.
Although the situation of rail infrastructure in the logistics sector is still far from desirable, it is essential to ensure that both small and large corporations see the train as the right complement for their logistics needs.
“The train must be treated like a ship”
For Alonso it is essential a change of vision towards the railroad in which it can be treated like a ship. The mistake is to try to equate the train with the service offered by road transport: “A truck is an a la carte service. What we need is to get trains that have a high regularity, a lot of frequency and in which all kinds of goods can be loaded. In this way we will achieve a sustainable, efficient and safe transport“.
In this sense, Grupo Alonso has once again emphasized the importance of the development of intermodality in its logistics platforms, which are working intensively from the company itself: “Since Alonso we are immersed in developing a Global Logistics Plan that will Allow to connect by rail the different logistic nodes that the group has distributed throughout the peninsula “.
“Get the international wide connection in 2017”
Federico Félix, president of the Pro AVE Foundation and vice-president of Ferrmed has inaugurated the day in which ports, companies and authorities have claimed the Mediterranean Corridor. Federico Félix announced that they will present to the Ministry a more “fast, economic and practically definitive” solution to achieve the connection in international width in 2017 for goods and travelers between Valencia and the French border.
Jointly, the “urgent need” to implement this infrastructure has been reiterated. Among the invited speakers and speakers were Francisco Toledo, president of the Port Authority of Castellón; Aurelio Martínez, president of the Port Authority of Valencia; José Vicente Morata, president of the Valencia Chamber, among other authorities. Ximo Puig, President of the Generalitat and Joan Ribó, mayor of Valencia, also intervened, who closed the meeting, assuring that they will continue to request a specific plan for the Mediterranean Corridor to be launched by the Ministry of Public Works.
