After the minute of silence, the King and Queen attended an information session on the complex and subsequently visited two warehouses belonging to two very representative logistics and distribution companies in Spain: the El Corte Inglés and Sending Food Distribution Center. .

The president of El Corte Inglés, Marta Álvarez, and the CEO, Víctor Del Pozo, on the one hand, and the president of Sending Transporte Urgente, Juan Pablo Lázaro, have explained in different visits to their ships the transformation they have undergone in these weeks of confinement due to the forced change for consumers caused by the state of alarm.

In the Food Distribution Center of El Corte Inglés, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia have made a tour from the entrance of products by truck, through the order preparation chain, the refrigerating chamber and the delivery exit area. This center was opened in 2012 as a specialized platform for the preparation and distribution of online food orders. It has the latest technology applied to commercial distribution with a high speed classifier, laser scanners and full broadband radio frequency coverage.

More than 90% of the products served from this center are of Spanish origin, with a large representation of SMEs. The company ensures that a quality service guarantee is offered, both in food safety and in maintaining the cold chain throughout the process, including transport. It is prepared to work with more than 20,000 references, it includes fresh cut products (the customer can choose how they want it prepared), frozen and dry food, among other products.

El Corte Inglés also reports that the high demand for online supermarket purchases during the health alert has prompted them to build in just 15 days a new robotic warehouse in Alcalá de Henares. With 5,000 m2 it is capable of preparing up to 2,000 orders per day.

After the visit to this center, the Kings and the authorities have gone to the Sending warehouse, in which Juan Pablo Lázaro has explained the operation of the urgent distribution from the Operations Center, the "tracking" area, and the logistics flow.

Sending is an urgent transport and logistics company that manages a fleet of 945 vehicles to offer coverage in Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Ceuta, Melilla, without forgetting the island service in the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands and Azores.

Their vehicles are monitored to be able to apply the most advanced technology for total control of the merchandise, offering customers real-time information via web tracking, telephone service, sms, mails, or mobile APPs. In logistics, or even with our chatbot.