Transfesa´s Industrial Logistics Division is the European leader of rail transport for parts and components in the automobile sector. European automobile manufacturers are the most prominent clients of industrial logistics operations.

Logistics is becoming increasingly crucial for industrial competitiveness. This is particularly important for the automobile sector in the Iberian Peninsula, due to its remote geographic position in relation to the important consumer markets.

Transfesa provides various services for the supply of production plants:

• Long-distance transportation
• Management of terminals
• Collection/delivery to providers
• Consolidation centres
• Warehouses
• Interplant direct shipments.
• Information services
• Management of logistics chains
• Supply management for factories

Transfesa manages several intermodal terminals for the automobile industry, some of those located directly within the production facilities:

• Cologne, Germany
• Dagenham, U.K.
• Paris, France
• Valladolid, Spain
• Köseköy, Turkey

Transfesa has designed and built its own rolling stock for transporting parts and components for the automobile sector. An interesting example is the MEGA-COMBI swap bodies. These units have 3 metres high load capacity and are equipped with a lifting roof system that enables an optimum loading capacity, as well as facilitates the execution of the loading and unloading operations. Also, Transfesa has designed and built its own fleet of flatbed wagons for swap bodies / containers.

Transfesa manages the consolidation of parts and components of vehicles between Spain and the rest of Europe, Northern and South America, Africa and Asia, carrying out the following activities:

• Delivery of parts and components of vehicles
• Consolidation and classification of vehicle parts and components
• Sea shipments
• Air shipments
• Documentation
• Direct computer connection to client´s systems
• Electronic validation of import licences
• Packaging of vehicle parts