Synergy strengthens its business structure in the southwest of France

Alberto Jiménez, with extensive experience in marketing services in the French market, his work will focus on offering companies a comprehensive "port-door" service which, thanks to the train, will reduce their costs and the transit time of their imports and exports, while at the same time contributing to improving the environment by reducing CO2 emissions. Saving 12 tonnes this past 2020.

Launched in February 2020, the intermodal service between South West France and Hutchison Ports Terminal BEST (Barcelona) is proving a remarkable success for customers, who have achieved up to 11 days of savings in the transit time of their goods, and significant competitive advantages for importing and exporting their products through the Port of Barcelona.

The consolidation and growth of traffic between France and the Port of Barcelona has the Noáin Intermodal Terminal as an essential strategic link, from where Synergy offers daily connections and multiple services: last mile, customs solutions, warehousing and storage. crossdocking, VGM, forage and lashing, cleaning and spraying, installing thermal blankets and flexitanksetc.

Pablo García, management director, says "We have reinforced our customs department to make it easier for our French customers to transport their goods through the Port of Barcelona. In this way, we offer all kinds of procedures: clearance, transit, inspection of goods...".

Synergy's offer is completed with its facilities at the Miranda de Ebro Container Terminal (Burgos), which has gained the trust of a growing group of companies and operators thanks to an efficient and versatile offer.

It should also be noted that this network of infrastructures and services achieves a global dimension thanks to the network of Hutchison Ports, a pioneering terminal operator present in 53 ports and 27 countries, thus offering the Port of Barcelona more than 200 connections with ports all over the world. Within this, the Terminal BEST stands out, the first semi-automated terminal of the group, the most technologically advanced in Spain and the largest railway terminal of the Mediterranean ports with 8 tracks of 750 meters that connects the world traffic to Europe through the Mediterranean and vice versa.