El Corte Inglés selects Azkar for its Logistics Operations in China

Azkar Overseas, the subsidiary of Transportes Azkar, S.A. the leading international provider of integrated logistics services on the Iberian Peninsula and Islands, has been selected by the Spanish giant in Departament Stores retail businesses, El Corte Ingles, to develop and run its logistics operations for consolidated cargo from China.

To be more specific, in the port cities of Xiamen and Shenzhen, both located in Southern China, Azkar Overseas will coordinate with all the suppliers of the Corte Ingles all orders that are less than a container load, the terms of delivery, the receiving of cargo, quantity control, sorting and warehousing of cargo, loading of ocean containers, booking with the pingship lines for equipment and vessel space, thus including customs export clearance and procedures and any other necessary process and documentation relevant to the course of action and related to packing list, Bill of lading, etc.

In order to make this happen, Azkar has made available to El Corte Ingles, the space of two warehouse facilities, one of them being 8000 square meters located in the free zone at the port of Chiwan in Shenzhen and the other of 10,000 square meters located at the port of Xiamen.

In addition, Azkar has created and developed its own exclusive web application that coordinates and allows the proper tracking of the process via Internet, allowing a complete vision online of the entire operation completely available to its client.

With this new operation, El Corte Ingles, once again demonstrates its leadership in Spain as an innovative in the logistics processes, reducing its transit times of its less than container load cargo and optimizing the cargo capacity within the ocean containers being consolidated.