Arasur attaches to Saba parking management of the parking for trucks
January 20, 2009
The Board of Directors of the Arasur logistics park has approved the granting, in regime of rent, the management of the secure parking for trucks, which boasts 194 seats, to Saba parking, SA, a subsidiary of the Abertisgroup, for a period of 10 years.
The parking lot, built on an area of 23,700 square meters, is supplemented by the development of the area of services of Arasur aiming to offer a range of quality services to all users of the Park, as well as more than 24,000 carriers that circulate daily by the national A-1 (Irun) road and motorways AP-1 and AP-68, Arasur that connect with the main Spanish and European capitals.
The construction of this parking responds, among other reasons, to a growing demand for parking lots monitored in the environment of the trans-European transport network in order to improve road safety and truck drivers, as well as combating insecurity in the carriage of goods by road.
The new car park will receive significant investments to provide it with the latest technology, specifically in the control system, the recognition of licence plates, as well as the closed circuit of cameras of security and signaling. In order to offer a quality service to its users, based on the policy of Saba parking prioritize innovation, application of new technologies and the design of the car park as a key element for mobility.
Saba is the company that manages the parking lots of the Abertis group business and Arasur is one of the most important logistics parks in the South of Europe. The Park has a total area of 2 million square metres (200 hectares), which will be installed, in the next nine years, more than one million square meters of warehouses, for whose construction is expected to an investment close to 360 million euros. The logistics complex is located in a privileged area located at the confluence of motorways AP-1 (Burgos-Armiñón), AP-68 (Bilbao-Zaragoza) and the highway A-1 (Irun). In addition, it is crossed by the Miranda de Ebro railway lines, connecting it with the ports of Bilbao and Pasajes and Santander, as well as with the Vitoria airport, located 25 kilometres from the platform. It araba logistics S.A. is the company that builds, promotes and exploits Arasur and its principal shareholders are Abertis logistics such as industrial, technological and commercial partner with 43,98 per cent; Caja Vital Kutxa as financial partner with 43,98 per cent; the Department of transport and public works of the Basque Government with 10 per cent; the Diputación Foral de Álava to 1.95 per cent and the municipality of Ribera Baixa with participation from 0.09 per cent.
