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Logisquimia offers the chemical industry the opportunity to outsource the management of the supply chain

DSV Solutions extends its offer to the chemical sector

David well03/11/2010

November 3, 2010

Is possible that many not have heard talk of dsv solutions, but the reality is that this is one of the major logistics operators in the world and now also of our country. Go the 60,000 square meters of the central DSV is located in Barcelona's Ruby is like being a small point on a huge page full of content. With a capacity of 55,000 pallets, the facilities include 8,300 square meters for dangerous goods, 9,600 m more for value-added operations, and 84 loading docks, which carried about 350 operations for loading and unloading of daily average.

DSV is composed in Spain by three companies: DSV Solutions Spain, dedicated to the service of storage and distribution puerta-a - gateway to the peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the Balearic and the Canary Islands; DSV Road Spain, dedicated to national and international road transport; and DSV Air & Sea, covering the area of air and maritime transport. DSV operates from the 17 logistical platforms scattered throughout the national territory, from which offers the possibility to store and transport all kinds of products, excluding the explosive, which is the only type of material that DSV is not manipulated.

Facilities of DSV Solutions in Rubí (Barcelona).

Logisquimia, a new service with great potential

"DSV has released a number of products that cover the entire supply chain, from the storage to the transport, handling and packaging, and which is exclusive for the chemical industry." "All this baptized with a specific name, Logisquimia", explains Josep Fusté, project manager of DSV Solutions Spain. "With this service we intend to cover both the chemical, which is dangerous and that is not offering a logistics specialist for the sector", continues Fusté. "We have facilities suitable for chemical products according to APQ of 9,600 square meters in Ruby and believe that this is an area of business that we have to enhance and where has demonstrated the presence of DSV in Spain"", especially considering that internationally it is an area where our operator is a reference".

"With this service we intend to cover both the chemical, which is dangerous and that is not offering a logistics specialist for the sector"

Although there is competition in Spain, from DSV considered that there is a niche market, especially in the area of Barcelona, which is not currently has a profile multinational companies that can offer these possibilities of storage and distribution at the level of the chemical sector.

"With Logisquimia, DSV offers the chemical industry packing storage of products according to the different types of risk, manipulate, picking, value-added, such as the issuing of statements of dangerous goods (Shipper's declarations), with qualified personnel in template to do so."

Among the myriad of corridors, DSV has 9,600 square meters intended for dangerous products.

DSV Logisalud

It's one of the specific services offered by the logistics operator DSV Solutions, aimed exclusively to the health sector. DSV Logisalud offers specific services to specific requirements: GMP, value-added, storage and distribution temperature controlled services, customs, fiscal representation, delivery in 24/7 Emergency hospitals, computer systems throughout the chain of supply, etc.

A journey without end

Travel facilities such as the DSV in Ruby, is to have the opportunity to verify in situ the importance of every detail so that everything is in place in the workplace and the agreed time. In the journey I could discover as DSV is a real specialist in logistics management of motorcycles. Through its Logismoto product, not just DSV stores bikes - system in bulk, drive-in rack and conventional bookshelf - and it carries them (using vehicles adapted to the specific transport of motorcycles for delivery to dealers), but which also offers a special handling servicewith Assembly of kits, accessories, parts and assemblies in the Centre and at the hands of staff trained. A relevant fact: only one of the brands of reference of the motorcycle sector occupies 15,000 square meters of the Barcelona logistics centre. This same logistics, although on another scale, is also repeated for other types of disparate sectors such as toys or the print. And it is intended that as asserted by the project manager, "the flexibility to be one of our main arguments".

Josep Fusté explained the three challenges that have in the short term the company at the end of our journey: "Position in the Spanish market as one of the leaders in storage and distribution, strengthen relationships with customers that are already working in other countries"", and finally make full use of the space for dangerous products in the power of Ruby".

Some service such as Logismoto cover most of Barcelona's logistics center.

DSV debarks in Spain in 2006

The DSV, global provider of logistics and transportation services company, is part of the Danish group DSV. With offices in more than 60 countries, with presence in more than 110, thanks to the collaboration of partners and agents, DSV is situated between the top of the ranking of logistics operators. DSV employs more than 21,000 professionals around the world, who are responsible for thoroughly managing any merchandise with a high reliability and efficiency.

DSV was introduced at Spain in 2006 with the purchase of Frans Maas and, with the aim of obtaining an even more global presence, the DSV Group acquired in 2008 the Belgian operator ABX Logistics. DSV in Spain has delegations distributed throughout the Spanish geography, offering quality services tailored to each customer: own customs clearance, track & trace, DSV e - services, service express, etc.