With economies, families and communities being impacted by thepandemic and ongoing challenges such as climate change, we arecommitted to being a force for positive change and to supportingbusinesses and local communities. As a part of our commitment, UPSis opening a new hub in Barcelona that has been designed torigorous global certification standards for energy performance.When the facility opens by the end of this year, it will allow usto better serve our customers while underscoring our commitment toreducing the environmental impact of our services.
CILSA - ZAL Port of Barcelona and UPS worked in collaboration toequip the building with LED lighting, energy-efficient insulationand advanced package sorting technology that reduce energyconsumption, and photovoltaic panels installed on the roof willreduce the amount of electricity drawn from the grid.
“At €40 million, this new Barcelona hub is one of UPS’s largestever investments in Spain and will support an important junction inour cross-border European network,” said Elisabeth Rodriguez,country manager, UPS Spain and Portugal. “Trade with the EuropeanUnion accounts for 67 percent of Spain’s exports[1] and the hub’sstrategic location at the Port of Barcelona, near El Prat airportand the French border, will encourage local businesses seeking toexpand their customer base that selling across borders can be asstraightforward as shipping at home.”
The building will open in time for this year’s holiday peakshipping season, which will help businesses in Barcelona connectmore efficiently with their customers in Europe.
Our Barcelona hub now joins 18 other certified UPS facilitiesworldwide. The new hub covers an area of more than 24,000m2 and hasa sorting capacity of up to 22,000 packages per hour—more than 2.5times the capacity of the current facility in Barcelona it willreplace. Built by CILSA – ZAL Port, Port of Barcelona and MerlinProperties, the facility is part of a series of constructionprojects that real estate firm CILSA is developing in a new270,000m2 logistics park in ZAL Port of Barcelona, along with morethan 920,000m2 of logistics warehouses in the prime BarcelonaLogistics Area.
“With the addition of UPS to our portfolio, ZAL Port will becomethe most important logistics development in Southern Europe,bringing together all the world leaders of the logistics sector,with multiple developments of local, regional and internationalhubs completing the value chain of logistics”, said AlfonsoMartínez, CEO of ZAL Port.