DHL: “60% of the business generated in Madrid goes to the euro zone”

Interview with Juan Carlos Pena Castiñeira, DHL Madrid manager

DHL is the world's largest logistics company. It operates in more than 220 countries and has a workforce of over 325.000 employees who provide solutions for virtually any logistics need.

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En DHL Madrid, your manager Juan Carlos Pena Castiñeira With six years in regional management, he defined Madrid as one of the most important international business centers in the world "we are in the Top 3 with London, Paris... it is an administrative capital city of Spain and the headquarters chosen by most of the multinationals that settle in our country. It has adequate infrastructure for business, an international airport being the most important hub with businesses destined for Latin America and by road it reaches the entire peninsula and ports of the country.

 

 

 

Madrid covers 11% of the exports of all of Spain. With a positive evolution, in the last six months of the year according to data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, exports have grown by 4%, "at DHL we are also noticing this growth and this movement of goods in terms of international transport" highlighted the manager. .

 

 

Madrid companies mainly go to the euro zone markets “since there are no customs restrictions and because of their proximity to Spain. Approximately 60% of the business is generated towards the euro zone and due to proximity they are France. Italy and Portugal as well as England and Germany, although there are other areas of the world that are emerging such as Asia, Latin America and Africa. “Madrid has the additional value of being that connection hub with the main Latin American countries for all of Europe,” he indicated.

 

 

“Madrid is the connection hub with the main Latin American countries for all of Europe”