The Dry Port of Madrid, also known as the Dry Port of Coslada, is a logistics platform for the distribution of goods located in the Spanish municipality of Coslada, near

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The draft project for the dry port traces back to 1995. The start of operations took place in 2001, through the link to the ports of

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and

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. The port of Valencia early consolidated as the main synergy hoarder vis-à-vis the activity of the Dry Port of Coslada, amounting for the 92% of the freight volume by 2016. After the purchase of the stocks of Noatum by the Chinese company

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, the management of the terminal, transferred to Conte Rail, became controlled by Cosco. It has its own customs service.

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