Palibex Initiates his activity with the inauguration of an innovative centre of operations

As it remembered Federico Jiménez of Parga during the inauguration of the new centre of operations of Palibex, “in an economic situation like the current, in which they have had to close in Spain near of 25.000 companies of transport from the start of the crisis, it is necessary to congratulate to Palibex by the valentía that has showed to the hour to take this initiative”.

Palibex Is cream like the first totally Spanish network skilled in the distribution exprés of commodity paletizada. “We are a SME with ambitious challenges whose main aim is to help to our franquiciados to be each more profitable day”, signalled to way of presentation Jaime Colsa, adviser delegated and founder of the company, the one who treasures a long experience in the transport of commodities in Spain through companies like DB Schenker, Palletways, Christian Salvesen and UPS.

Palibex Wants to sustentar his development on three basic pillars. In the first place, through a network of solvent employers, engaged and experienced, able to give a service of optimum quality in any point of Spain. This work will see reinforced, as second basic point, by the central warehouse inaugurated in Madrid and that erigirá in the centre neurálgico of operations of all this network of franquiciados, with the intention to guarantee an efficient service, modern, operative and flexible. And finally, as third pillar, Palibex faces this adventure with the backrest of a managerial team that accumulates more than 20 years of experience in the transport of industrial commodity, what supposes a guarantee for all the network.

Palibex Wants that the big protagonists of the network are his franquiciados. His aim is that the customers develop inside this network, with an only image of mark, a standardisation of all the processes, establishing an only franquiciado by geographic zone and achieving so these companies are more profitable.

The franquiciados that want to form part of this network will subject to a rigorous process of selection, in which the decisive criteria will be the commitment and the quality. “A commitment and a quality that Palibex no only will demand but we also will offer to our franquiciados by means of our services”, indicated Jaime Colsa. For this the company has designed a simple agreement of franchise, very balanced in rights and obligations between the parts, whose end last does not go through to look for retain to these companies in the network but these want to follow participating voluntarily in this initiative because really it contributes them profitability to his businesses. To attain the satisfaction of these franquiciados, Palibex offers them, between other commercial advantages, an optimisation of costs, a service exprés 24 h and another economic of 48 h, schedules wider for the collected to customers, an early distribution and sendings from among 1 and 7 palés categorizados in different sizes (mini, four, half, light, complete and súper).

With the aim to optimise the times and win in hygiene, Palibex has opted in his centre of Madrid by the operative by dock in place of the tendency generalised in the sector of load and lateral download.

With all this, the company initiates his activity with a network of 25 franchises and a volume estimated of 500 palés daily, happening his aims for finishing the first year with 35 franchises and 1.000 palés daily (what would suppose the creation of 50 places of direct work and 500 indirect), and arrive to the third year of work with 55 franchises and 391.800 palés annual.

The new central warehouse of Madrid is the centre neurálgico of the network Palibex. It treats of some leading installations that have 50 docks of load and download (5.000 m²), in addition to 1.000 m² of offices in which it centralises all the gestión of the network. They do not are missing neither technical auxiliary zones (jet, workshop and zone of wash) and of rest for the loaderss.

All the activities of the central warehouse are coordinated and directed by the steering of operations. “The aim is to offer an agile gestión, safe, flexible and efficient”, indicated Jaime Colsa. For this llevar a scanned of 100% of the commodity that goes through the installations.

Palibex Puts besides to disposal of the franquiciados a computer system of last generation and managed through the Spanish software Aletrán, which characterises by his solid computer infrastructure, based in the cloud, to ensure some fast and safe communications. The network provides also to his franquiciados a service of learning, maintenance and support that will allow them give a good service to his final customers.

As it signalled, to descriptive way the adviser delegated of Palibex, the operative in this central warehouse goes to be similar to which governs the activity in the airports, with an exhaustive control of all the operations, to guarantee the quality in the service.

As it manifested Jaime Colsa, the transport of commodity paletizada has still a long route in Spain. In fact, after the entrance in the market of Palibex hardly exist in our country three main networks to develop this service, when in other countries of Europe, as for example England, the paletería industrial exprés has a number of networks very upper.

Thus, Palibex wants to base his growth in this organic expansion of the market, boosting with his daily work, jointly with the developed by the rest of competitors, the advantages of this type of transport.

Besides, this growth will centre initially in the Iberian Peninsula (including Portugal and the installations with which already explain some franquiciados in Canaries, Ceuta and Melilla), not being between the aims of the company open to the international market (if it was necessary, for these transports will manage special agreements with international networks).

The lemma of Palibex is ‘moves Us a team' and inside this team goes to be fundamental the contribution of the professionals that form part of the directive of the company:

• Jaime Colsa, adviser delegated
• José Antonio Sleeves, director of Development
• Guillermo Cagigas, director of Systems
• José Luis Leaves, Financial director
• Ana Lobato, Legal director