Community of Madrid and Foro MADCargo will promote Madrid as a global logistics hub David Pérez, Minister of Transport and Infrastructures of the Community of Madrid, and Jesús Cuéllar, President of Foro MADCargo, have signed this morning an action protocol with the aim of turning the region into a global logistics hub for air freight, a platform for Latin America in Europe, a bridge to Asia and Africa and a distribution center for the Iberian Peninsula. with the aim of turning the region into a global logistics hub for air freight, a platform for Latin America in Europe, a bridge to Asia and Africa, and a distribution center for the Iberian Peninsula.
Madrid, March 8, 2022
This alliance seeks to promote the air cargo sector and attract the use of the sourcing system in global supply chains. In this sense, joint work is required between companies, sector organizations and public bodies involved in logistics, to improve management
public agencies involved in logistics, to improve management, operations and services with high quality standards and promote innovation and digitalization.
For this reason, during the protocol signing ceremony, Foro MADCargo presented to the Minister its Proposal for a Logistics Management Model in the Community of Madrid, based on the constitution of a public-private partnership for the development of Madrid as a global logistics hub.
of Madrid as a global logistics node, an initiative very positively received by the Community of Madrid, whose Minister of Transport has valued today's event as the first step to work in this direction.
"Today we are taking the first step to turn Madrid into the main logistics node in Spain through the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, which together with the Henares Corridor forms the main vector for the development of logistics in our Community," explained David Pérez. "We want to boost the competitiveness of the sector, the availability of efficient intermodal freight services and boost air cargo for export in the region and in Spain," he added.
According to David Pérez, "from now on we will start working with all the actors that may be involved in this initiative both at a private level and within the regional Administration itself, such as the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, the Madrid City Council and the General State Administration, through the Ministry of Transport and the public company Aena, so that the region becomes the main logistics node in Spain".
In this regard, Jesús Cuéllar, president of Foro MADCargo, thanked the counselor for the political will to launch this project, which breaks with the anomaly that Madrid has compared to other Spanish and European regions of not having
of not having a major logistics driving force. Cuellar described the step taken today as "historic" for Madrid and its logistics development, stressing the importance of all logistics organizations and all the administrations involved being part of the initiative.
part of the initiative.
