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The Day of the Logistics, an initiative to give visibility to the management of the chain of supply

15/04/2014

15 April 2014

The Spanish Centre of Logistics, in collaboration with a fortnight of institutions, organisations and companies, organised a complete program of conferences that took place the days 9, 10 and 11 April, in Madrid and Barcelona, to celebrate the Day of the Logistics, an initiative that also celebrate other European countries and with which wants to give greater social visibility to the importance of the management of the chain of supply. On 9 April, the Spanish Centre of Logistics, in collaboration with ONE, CITET, Siemens, the Concejalía of Economic Development, Employment, Woman, Trade and Tourism of the City council of Coslada and CEXCO, organised a technical visit to the installations of the System Automated of Treatment and Transport of Luggages of the Terminal 4 of the Airport of Madrid.

The same day 9 April, the CEL, in collaboration with ONE, ESIC Business&Marketing School, the Concejalía of Economic Development, Employment, Woman, Trade and Tourism of the City council of Coslada and CEXCO, also celebrated a session of conferences devoted to analyse the urban distribution of commodities, the initiatives for the improvement of the environingingmental impact of the operations of logistics and transport and the paper of the learning in the transport and the logistics. In these sessions, presented the results of the Analysis and Proposal for the urban distribution in the city of Coslada and of the Study of Costs and Competitiveness of the Transport of Commodities by Road, elaborated by the Spanish Centre of Logistics, ONE and the City council of Coslada.

The next day, on 10 April, the Spanish Centre of Logistics, in collaboration with ONE, the Concejalía of Economic Development, Employment, Woman, Trade and Tourism of the City council of Coslada, CEXCO, the stamp and of Business Excellence in Logistics, the University Camilo José Cela, CITET, ITENE, SIL 2014 and AENOR, developed a new cycle of conferences devoted to fight against the climatic change, footprint of carbon, reduction of logistical and environingingmental costs, certification of the business excellence and learning. These days had the intervention of Susana Magro Andrade, Director of the Spanish Office of Climatic Change of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feeding and Environingingment the one who analysed the aims of reduction of the broadcasts contaminantes fixed by the European Union for 2020 and in which, in his opinion, “the efficient management of the ways of transport is the key”. Likewise, for Magro the logistical platforms and the change in the modal distribution play an important paper in the reduction of the broadcasts contaminantes in our country.

The afternoon of 10 April, the CEL, with the collaboration of ONE, CITET and SIL 2014, organised two conferences devoted to the logistics in the e-commerce and read logistics. Finally, on 11 April, in Barcelona, the Spanish Centre of Logistics, in collaboration with EADA Business School Barcelona, organised a conference centred in innovation colaborativa in the management of the chain of supply.