(07/03/2024) 

During this time, three Use Cases have been deployed with multimodal trial facilities to enable testing related to seaport logistics and last mile delivery, seaport to airport, and river-port to rail cargo. These projects are being carried out in Spain, Greece and Romania.

In Spain, these pilot trials combine sea port, truck, train and subway, the latter for last-mile distribution. Their development involves the participation of Valencia with Cosco Shipping Lines Spain and Fundación Valencia Port partners; and Madrid with DHL Exel Supply Chain Spain and Metro de Madrid.

Containers arriving at Valencia Port are unloaded from the vessels, then loaded either on trucks or trains, and transported to Madrid DHL warehouse where the goods are stored. There, individual parcels are picked and grouped in roller containers, and then transported to the Metro de Madrid depot.

From that point, each roller container is placed in the train before heading for the first station of their route, without any passengers, where the containers are unloaded and the parcels distributed in lockers at the station, from which final customer eventually picks them up. The introduction of Metro de Madrid as the last-mile transport represents the core innovation in this Use Case.