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The Spanish express and freight company Azkar has continued its expansion in Spain by opening three new distribution centres in Toledo and Jaén provinces.

The two Toledo centres, located on plots of 8,000 sqm (3,348 sqm constructed) and 2,028 sqm (1,962 sqm constructed) will be staffed by 55 people with 25 vehicles, and are located on the Mariola industrial estate in Huecas and at Talavera de la Reina, respectively.

Azkar has also built a 1,052 sqm facility on the Los Olivares industrial estate in the Andalusian city of Jaén, where 28 employees will work with six pick-up and delivery vehicles.

The logistics operator has been expanding rapidly over the past five years, investing EUR 175 million modernising and automating infrastructure and fleet. It has invested nearly EUR 40 million since the beginning of 2006, including opening new platforms near Bilbao and Zaragoza to improve distribution across the Iberian peninsula and connections with the rest of Europe. It also bought Barcelona-based freight forwarder Boss Continental earlier this year.

Azkar now has around 90 installations in Spain and Portugal on over 1.1 million sqm of land (over 640,000 sqm of warehouses and offices), employs 5,000 workers and has a fleet of more than 2,200 vehicles. It is a member of the EuroExpress urgent package delivery network and has an office in Shanghai.

Azkar, one of Spain’s leading parcels and freight transport operators, has extended its nationwide network with the opening of two new distribution centres.

The company has strengthened its presence in the Basque region with a new distribution centre at Zubieta, near to Lasarte (Guipúzcoa). Substantially larger than its previous site in the area, the new facility covers 10,550 sqm on a plot of land covering 30,034 sqm.

Azkar said it has invested euro2.6 million in building and fitting out the warehouse, which has 89 docking bays, 38 for heavy vehicles and another 51 for local collection and delivery vehicles. The new centre is also fitted out with modern sorting systems and has capacity to handle more than 7,500 packages per hour. There are 2,600 pallet positions for logistics activities.