XPO expansion

Anna Ellis

THE commitment of the North American multinational company XPO Logistics to expand its facilities in Llano del Espartal confirms this Alicante industrial estate as a logistics and distribution centre.

XPO Logistics has 5,000 square metres at its disposal in a warehouse in Llano del Espartal with 33 loading bays, which allows it to offer its main services.

According to its Regional Director, Luis Lopez, it provides a “last mile service for online commerce and the overnight distribution service for large retail companies, as well as delivery services for large distributors.”

With its commitment to Alicante, XPO Logistics has almost 20,000 square metres for its operations in the Valencian Community. On a technological level, the Alicante Centre has innovative tools to of­ fer its services to individuals and companies.

The company has its headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA; and provides services to 48,000 customers through 558 centres around the world.

Alicante’s mayor, Luis Barcala, visited the company’s new facilities last week and noted “the base will move 1,000 pallets a day and generate100 jobs, both direct and indirect, in the city.”

CENID said: “The integration of new technologies in people’s daily lives has changed the way in which we carry out our daily activities. In the field of sports tourism, municipalities need to have a digital infor­

Door-to-door

mation tool capable of correctly visualising the different events that are organised, as well as the different facilities and the practice centres of each of the sports modalities.”

University of Alicante researchers have developed a project based on the digitisation of sports tourism with the aim of having a real and measurable vision of the situation of digital transformation. They are proposing a plan to digitise sports events, as well as all the elements involved to give visibility to sports.

Date campaign

ELCHE and the Association of Date Producers are promoting an information campaign to encourage the consumption of the date fruit and raise awareness of their benefits.

President of the Date Association, Miguel Angel Sanchez, explained: “We are now offering a leaflet full of date knowledge, the leaflet has been translated into Spanish, Valencian and English.”

According to Sanchez, this leaflet shows the work calendar for the palm tree from January to December so that people can learn about the tasks and appreciate the amount of work that is carried out each year.

ORIHUELA has formally requested that the Post Office deliver ordinary postal shipments door ­ to ­ door throughout the municipality.

According to municipal services, Orihuela Costa, Entrenaranjos and Montepinar meet the requirements to be considered a consolidated urban environment.

The Home Regime Council, led by Luisa Bone, explained that the mayors of the Pedaneos of La Zenia and La Regia requested, in writing, to the city council the possibility of restoring the ordinary mail service door to door, as it poses a lot of inconvenience for neighbours to have to travel weekly to the Post Office located in Playa Flamenca to obtain their post.