Mobility makes modern economies possible and creates significant facilities for interaction between people worldwide. Advances in the transport of goods and people have significantly contributed to people’s standards of living. However, current transport systems are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

It is therefore necessary to develop and promote a more technologically advanced, efficient and fairer system of mobility. In this respect, ACCIONA Logistic and Transport Services is a leading national supplier of intermodal services for the transport of goods by sea, land, air and rail.

We work in four main directions, in which all the business areas participate:

• Find alternative means of transport, enabling reductions in the accident rate, emissions and congestion. Thus, ACCIONA Trasmediterranea is a pioneer company in the promotion and exploitation of Maritime Highways. In addition, through ACCIONA Concessions, we finance, design and construct tramlines and metropolitan rail transport, and with ACCIONA Rail Services, licensed since 2006, we commenced activity as an international rail freight operator in January last year.
• Intelligent intermodal transport of freight.
• Production and marketing of biofuels, including operation of urban buses using biofuels.
• Collaboration with public administrations through models of concessions (PPP- Public Private Partnership; PFI -Private Financing Initiative) to develop, construct and maintain new infrastructures, which contribute to reducing the accident rate and congestion.

• Maritime Highways
  
  The Spanish Strategy on Climate Change has introduced a new measure in the actions included in the transport sector: commitment to maritime highways. In addition the European Union has proposed Short Sea Shipping or Maritime Highways, as the principal strategic measure for achieving clean, safe, efficient and intermodal transport.
  
  Maritime Highways are short maritime routes between two points, closer by sea than by land, which, through intermodal transport, contribute to significantly reducing costs in the logistic chain.
  
  ACCIONA Trasmediterranea is at the forefront and collaborates in the development of this type of transport, where, since January 2005, it has run a line between Vigo and the French port of Saint Nazaire. In 2006, it carried (thus removing from the roads) 50,400 lorries and 120,000 cars, thus preventing the emission of 53,848 tonnes of CO2. 

• Intelligent Intermodal Transport of Freight
  
  In this respect, ACCIONA Logistic and Transport Services is a leading national supplier of intermodal services for the transport of goods by sea, land, air and rail.
  
  With ACCIONA Rail Services, which started operations in 2007, the ACCIONA group aims to promote transport systems which favour sustainable development and reduce environmental impact, by removing the need for a significant number of lorries on the road every day, with the resulting reductions in costs and pollution.
  
  Since December 2007, there has been a daily train operating between Algeciras and Barcelona. It is the first intermodal land, sea and rail route between Morocco and Europe. This is an ambitious project carried out in collaboration with RENFE and represents the greatest backing for this mode of transport to date.
  
  The new line enables the carriage of goods between Tangiers and Perpignan (France) in less than 24 hours. The freight is carried across the Straits of Gibraltar by ACCIONA Trasmediterranea. On arrival in Algeciras, a train belonging to ACCIONA Rail Services takes the freight across Spain to Barcelona, in a journey of approximately 20 hours.
  
  ACCIONA Trasmediterranea is participating in a new CENIT project, destined to promote co-operation between business, universities and administration to promote research and development. The project, called Intelligent Intermodal Transport of Freight, aims to improve efficiency in the intermodal transportation of goods through the development of planning, control, management and communication systems that consider the problem in a holistic manner. 

• Trams
  
  Improvement of the urban environment, through the reduction of congestion, emissions and noise pollution, is another of the priorities within the framework of sustainable mobility. Policies to deter the use of private vehicles, the promotion of public transport and the development of urban rail systems, are some of the measures adopted by administrations to confront this problem. In this context, the tram is a significant agent of change towards sustainable transport, providing a number of environmental benefits.
  
  Within our policy to contribute to sustainable development, ACCIONA Concessions has also established itself as a leader in the urban rail sector. We participate in projects in an integrated manner; in the construction, funding, start-up and maintenance. In this way, we also contribute to social and urban development, supporting and financing public projects through public and private collaboration agreements.
  
  We have already set up the TRAMAIX  (Baix Llobregat Tram) in Barcelona and the TRAMBESÒS, reducing the number of vehicles on the streets of Barcelona by almost 4,500 (14% fewer private cars), and in Madrid we have constructed 23 Km of the number 9 metro line to Arganda del Rey. In addition, in 2005 we were awarded the public tender for the design, construction and operation of the Ciudad de Parla Tram (Madrid), and we ready and able to take on new projects in the future.