“We are doing this together with our industry,” emphasized Díaz Ayuso, who highlighted how business turnover in Madrid grew 20% more than the previous year until December last year, three times more than the national average.
The president noted that the Agency will improve Madrid’s positioning as a major connection point for the transportation of goods and link between Europe, Latin America, and North Africa, with a renewed, more homogeneous regulation that will facilitate transit and simplify procedures, helping companies reduce costs and operation times.
To achieve this, it will leverage the experience, infrastructure, and facilities of the former Coslada Transport Center, a public company created by the regional government in 1989 for the promotion, development, and commercialization of logistics spaces. Currently, the region has over 38 million square meters dedicated to this activity, spread across 23 parks, and more than 12,000 companies.
Madrid absorbs 60% of international flows
Díaz Ayuso also highlighted that the Community of Madrid absorbs 60% of international goods flows entering Spain and 33% of national flows. Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport manages an increasing volume of material each year, up to 767,000 tons in 2024, and the Coslada Dry Port already handles 150,000 containers.
The Logistics Agency of the Community of Madrid will coordinate and promote activity, enhancing the region’s appeal for companies by offering centralized management, optimizing resources, and consolidating a homogeneous model for all centers, significantly reducing costs and operation times.
Facilitating proximity distribution in the Madrid Metro
On another note, the head of the regional government referred to the pioneering Last Mile project, through which the regional government, via the Madrid Metro, is helping reduce pollution and traffic congestion associated with distribution vehicles, avoiding the surface movement of thousands of packages per day.
The president noted that the results of this proximity distribution carried out by the Madrid subway during the last quarter of 2024 were «positive,» emphasizing the need to continue exploring this path. Through this pilot project, she explained, the metropolitan company facilitated the delivery of 38,000 packages on lines 3 and 12, without disrupting passenger traffic.
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