The Spanish company Laboratorios SESDERMA has just officially launched its new Panama Hub. This strategic logistics center will improve the distribution of products that the company manufactures at its headquarters in Puçol (Valencia) in all markets where it is present, at the other side of the Atlantic, between Canada and Argentina.
The Hub’s warehouse has on hold approximately 300 pallet locations. All picking and packing operations, as well as cross docking operations for the 12 operational destinations in the Americas, will be carried out from these locations. The aim is to cut procurement times for subsidiaries and distributors. Until now, pallets shipped from the port of Valencia took 60 days to reach the furthest point of the distribution network in the Americas, located in La Paz, Bolivia. With the start-up of the Panama hub, shipping time will be reduced by two thirds and take only 20 days to reach their destination in the Andean highlands.
The first re-export operation began this week. Guatemala was the first country to receive products from the Panama Hub, which were needed by the country’s distributors. Peru, the USA and the Dominican Republic will benefit immediately from this new logistics infrastructure which, employing multimodal transport for re-export, will significantly reduce logistics costs.