"Repsol, Shell, Cabot or Solvay chemistry are some of our major clients"

Industrial paletería, groupage, full load, storage, emergency..., are only some of the logistics services offered by Christian Salvesen Gerposa, a company specialized in the external management of chains of supply within the industrial sector and consumption.

Christian Salvesen originated in 1846, as a Scottish shipping company. In 1872 he went on to become the world's largest whaling company. Passed the "boom", after the postwar era, Christian Salvesen was introduced on the market of food temperature controlled in the United Kingdom. Over the years, he was concentrating on its core business of distribution, introducing fully also in the industrial branch.

Christian Salvesen Gerposa was founded in 1999 on the integration of the historic transport, Gerposa transport in the European Christian Salvesen logistics group company. The origin of transport Gerposa dates back to the year 1947. It started in Cantabria as family and company in 1999, year in which he joined Christian Salvesen, already more than 150 million euro invoiced per year. Mainly, transport Gerposa was specialized in logistics for the automotive sector, working with the first major brands - Opel, Renault, Ford, Nissan, Rover or Seat,-. among others

Based on the integration among the Christian Salvesen, incorporates a service to its portfolio of products that today is the differential product of further growth of our company and the Group's main activity: the industrial paletería or distribution of palletised goods.

In just 4 years, Christian Salvesen Gerposa has created an extensive network of connections for the Iberian Peninsula that allow the collection, distribution and delivery door to door of any palletised goods, from any point of Spain, France or Portugal in delivery record from 24 to 72 hours.

Christian Salvesen Gerposa offers a very wide range of services including transport in full load regime - including special vehicles such as tanks and vans of black smoke-, groupage, or distribution of goods, palletized, both nationally and internationally; dedicated storage and multi-client; logistics services as "picking", "packing", management of orders and "stock", labelling, coding, washing and recovery of containers, etc.

This wide variety of standard services allows the needs logistical and transport of the majority of companies in all their activity cycles.

In addition, we have special services for specific needs, such as regular deliveries during the night, sequential services or emergencies, and dedicated solutions, i.e., developed tailored to the needs of our customers.

We are currently taking all kinds of services to our clients in the chemical sector, which are very different products that require specific needs: the transmittal of a pallet to a solution dedicated to vehicles intended exclusively for the client or the creation of stores to measure technology and staff of Christian Salvesen Gerposa.

Currently, Christian Salvesen Gerposa has 35 logistics platforms in Spain and 6 Portugal, more than 750 direct employees and 1,500 induced, 130,000 square meters of storage capacity and a fleet of around 1,000 vehicles. The last financial year 2003 have checked 146.4 million euros, with net profit of 3.5 million euros.

Christian Salvesen Gerposa is leader in the domestic market, integrated into a leading logistics group in Europe, which has as a main strategic objective to cover the specific needs of its customers and provide them value on its core business. This is a guarantee of solidity and of investment in new logistics platform renewal of fleet or continuous training of our human resources to continue to increase our European coverage, and always offer the highest quality service to our customers.

Our differential advantage is derived from a wider range of services and greater coverage that our competition, allowing our customers to work with only one operator, which thus becomes a trusted partner that understands the customer's business and shares its objectives and strategies.

The service showing higher rates of growth is the industrial paletería, with cumulative monthly rates of more than 2 percent. In addition to the national standard service door to door, we have a network that connection any point of Spain, France and Portugal. We are able to distribute during the night, with deliveries always before 8 in the morning and distribute 7 days a week.

We offer a quality service through the use of the latest technologies in the sector. All merchandise that travels through our distribution network is identified with tags that have a bar code. This code is read in every operation of load and unloading, so that we have identified and registered in real time what pallets have been manipulated, where and by whom. We have a complete traceability of each pallet and we can, via the internet, provide information in real time to our customers about the location of your goods.

We mainly transport goods industrial, but with the new service of industrial paletería, more and more often we give service to companies in the sector of consumer goods. Inheritance of our company, transport Gerposa, our main clients in billing belong to the automotive sector, but among our 30 major clients are also reference companies in the chemical industry as Union Española of explosives, Columbian CarbonDynasol/Repsol, Shell, Cabot or Solvay chemistry. In the case of Union Española of explosives, Cabot or Columbian Carbon, provide a logistic solution dedicated exclusively, by demand for the product itself.

For example, to Columbian Carbon, producer of black smoke in Gajano (Cantabria), we have dedicated resources exclusively for them: a warehouse outsourced with 12 carretilleros 3-wire, 4 forklifts and 19 vans and two tractor units devoted exclusively. The availability of staff is consistent with the shift of production, from Monday to Saturday. In addition, we provide them the organizational work, giving an integral service of warehouse with manipulation of finished product that includes documentary records, packaging of the finished product, handling of the product, bulk of vehicles, cargo of palletized goods, cleaning of confined enclosures, rental of warehouses, etc.

The policy of Christian Salvesen Gerposa provides continuous investments to always give a quality service and greater satisfaction to our customers. Annually we invest an average of 3 million euros in fleet, technology, facilities and training of human resources, mainly.

Two recent investment in facilities provided for the expansion of the logistics platform of San Román, in Álava, inaugurated last March, with more than 5,000 square meters, workshop, warehouse and laundry happened to be the location where the international transport of Christian Salvesen Gerposa is centralized. In San Andres de la Barca we have equipped and renovated a logistics platform of 7,500 square metres.

Our investment here for 2005 plans are putting in place a new Logistics Centre in Lanbarren (Guipúzcoa), one in Valencia and a possible extension of our storage capacity in Madrid.