Renfe receives the interest of 30 companies to ally itself with its Mercancías subsidiary

MADRID, 2 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Some thirty companies have informed Renfe of their interest in participating in its plans to integrate a new industrial partner into the capital of its Mercancías subsidiary, in order to multiply the potential of this business by taking advantage of the pull of electronic commerce generated by the pandemic.

This was announced this Wednesday by the general director of Renfe Mercancías, Joaquín del Moral, from the SIL fair, the international logistics and transport fair that is being held this week in Barcelona.

The director advanced that more than thirty companies have been interested in being an industrial partner of Renfe Mercancías, among which are three large shipping groups and three European railway companies.

Currently, the largest European public companies are the French SNCF, the Italian Trenitalia and the German Deutsche Bahn, although Del Moral did not detail the names of the interested companies, since the process is not yet official.

In this sense, the term to present the offers will not close until next July 1. Renfe's intention is to create a company owned equally with this new partner or create different subsidiaries focused on different business models within merchandise.

Renfe Operadora thus begins the competitive procedure necessary to select one or more strategic partners, with the ultimate goal of increasing the volume of activity and business to be developed jointly with the potential partners, increasing the added value, the profitability of the operation and achieving greater flexibility.

It is about expanding the international business of Renfe Mercancías, as well as becoming a global logistics operator, being able to offer customers comprehensive services, as explained by the public company.

Renfe's intention is to enter emerging businesses in which it is not yet present, hand in hand with other partners with experience in the sector, such as electronic commerce, in which Renfe Mercancías wants to take advantage of its experience and all its potential to enter in this activity, which had already been experiencing high growth rates and which, with the coronavirus crisis, has skyrocketed.

The company's intention is to use semi-trailers over long distances via 'railroads', with the aim that the goods they transport are pulled in the last mile by trucks and other means of road transport with driver.