The Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers has just made the 5th edition of the ANFAC report on 'The assessment of port maritime logistics' in which the port of Santander is positioned in the first position of the ranking and obtains a rating, according to The conclusions of this report, "until now never reached by any port '.
The report prepared by ANFAC, whose periodicity is annual, analyzes the service received by the members of this association in 2011 in 10 large ports of Spain and values different aspects of them. Among them the level of accessibility to the port, agility in management for zone allocation, vehicle handling, monitoring in manipulative manipulative staff, flexibility in the availability of unusual schedules, incidence in vehicles, and Customs formalities. The global assessment to all these aspects is 4.5 out of 5.
In the conclusions referring to the port of Santander, “the relevant improvements are practically indicated in all areas analyzed”. The highlighted point in the report are "the advances in the field of awareness and continuous training of the personnel that manipulates the vehicles and highlights the proper training they receive for the specific treatment of the new models marketed in the market." It ends by pointing out that: "As a conclusion, the significant advance of the agents involved with the handling of vehicles can be influenced, clearly being clearly the commitment and involvement of the entire port community with the automobile sector."
The port of Santander manipulated a total of 315,047 vehicles during 2011. In these units, ANFAC brands and others that are not in this association are included. In total there are 15 brands that use the port of Santander in its logistics operations. The ANFAC study was prepared over 257,023 units, which represent 81 percent of the total car traffic. The brands associated with ANFAC that in 2011 have used the port of Santander, ordered by traffic volume are: Volkswagen, Renault, Nissan, Ford, Opel, Mercedes, Seat and PSA (Citroen/Peugeot).