| Renault and Fiat freeze their plants in Argentina | | The drop in internal and external demand are the arguments offered by the heads of Renault Fiat to justify the freezing of their activities in their factories in C�rdoba, Argentina. The company has set up a redundancy plan, Fiat one of early retirement to tackle the
complicated economic situation in the country.
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| New installations for Transportes Padrosa | | Transportes Padrosa has inaugurated new installations in Llers, near Figueras, with a surface area of 60 0000 m2. The second phase will enlarge it to 20 000m2 more of warehousing to service its fleet of more than 100 trucks and 200 trailers. The modern headquarters of Padrosa has 40 000 m2 for truck parking, 1000m2 of offices and 600 m2 of workshops. |
| The great small packet market in Spain | | The 4100 small packet companies in Spain will reach, in 2002, a business volume of 700.000 million of pesetas, according to research published by DBK consultants. 19% of this business comes from urban packets; 62% from international Courier services and national has a share of 18% of the turnover. The Seur group, MRW, Guipuzkoana, Azkar, DHL and Burgal practically share 38% of the market. |
| Correos will control the Chronopost affiliate | | Correos and Tel�grafos wants to enlarge its participation in the Spanish affiliate of Chronopost, according to what was announced by the general executive, Alberto N��ez Feijoo. Correos already has 50% of the stocks together with French La Poste and aims to increase the express package business by taking control of the company for which a capital widening will be necessary. |
| MRW logistic inaugurates Costada�s headquarters | | The logistics division of MRW has opened its new headquarters at the Costada Transport Center in Madrid with very modern installations over a surface of 8000m2. The new headquarters will be equipped with the latest technology to respond the e-mail demands. The customers could connect to Internet to be informed of the exact position of his packet and receive notification of arrival via mobile phone. |
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