Coslada is located in the Henares Corridor, with an area of 11.7 km2 and about 90,000 habitants. It borders at east with San Fernando de Henares and Madrid, and with Madrid also at the north, south and west. That is, except the border with San Fernando, is surrounded by the municipality of Madrid.
The entire northern fringe of its municipal term is occupied by industrial areas specialized in logistics and transport activities. In addition, Coslada is 6 km from Madrid-Barajas airport, which is the first Spanish airport by passenger traffic, air cargo and operations, the fifth in Europe and the twenty-ninth in the world by number of passengers. This makes it a strategic point in terms of freight transport activities.
In Coslada is located the dry port of the Community of Madrid (the first of its kind in Europe). That’s why the most important transport companies operating in Spain have branch in Coslada. Its Transport Centre is the largest multimodal logistics complex in Southern Europe, with about 1 million square meters housing more than one hundred leading companies in global logistics services.
A dry port is an intermodal freight terminal located within a country or economic region connected through the rail network with the seaport of origin or destination. The main feature of a dry port is intermodality, combining different forms of transport with the aim of making more agile, flexible and reliable transportation of goods. In this case sea, rail and road transport are combined.
According to CEXCO (an agency attached to the Department of Economic Development municipal space, Employment, Trade and Tourism of the City of Coslada, intended for business development in collaboration with the Spanish Logistics Centre) Coslada is considered the 5th pole of logistics at European level for its strategic position near the capital, its extensive network of communications and logistics and its transport infrastructure.
