Santander, a Spanish port best valued by car companies for the fifth consecutive year. The Cantabrian infrastructure again ranks first in the maritime-port logistics assessment carried out by 16 companies in the automotive sector for the Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (ANFAC). Santander 07-10-20. Santander again obtains the title of port best positioned by customers when assessing the maritime-port logistics carried out in vehicle traffic. This is apparent from the report that ANFAC draws up each year on the basis of a series of questionnaires answered by the main car manufacturers installed in Spain, which analyse issues such as:
• Level of involvement of the Port Authority. • Management of customs procedures. • Level of accessibility to the port. • Status of deposit zones and agility in management. • Handling of vehicles, monitoring of the standards established by the manufacturer for such handling in its interconnection with all modes of transport and in the terminal itself. • Incidents on vehicles. • Flexibility in port services.
The manufacturers have highlighted Santander's access to the port by both rail and road, with particular emphasis on the good results offered by the new entrance to the port to decongest traffic. In addition, they consider the handling of vehicles and the low level of damage on them to occur in the loading and unloading of trucks or in the depot areas very satisfactory. For the president of the Port Authority of Santander (APS), Jaime González, this result has "special value" because it is the direct customers who evaluate the quality of the port work, and has congratulated all the agents working in the automotive sector in the Port of Santander "for their great involvement and good work".
In addition, González has pointed out that this first position will serve as a stimulus to "further improve" port infrastructures and recalled that the SSPS is now working on building a high-altitude storage silo "that provides the capacity to ensure the consolidation of strategic traffic for port growth". *Vehicle traffic. Of the 3.19 million vehicles transported through Spanish ports in 2019, more than 460,000 units moved through the Port of Santander, placing this facility as the third largest in volume of vehicles, mainly export. Special incidence has the share of traffic by rail that accounts for 48% of the total, with a movement of more than 226 thousand vehicles, 206 thousand of which corresponded to export. Santander currently has the logistics of shipments from more than twenty manufacturers worldwide in its port.