- The Logistic Center of the Delegation responds to more than 70 consistories managed more than 600 pallets
Barcelona, November 15, 2024.- The Government delegate, Carlos Prieto, visited the Logistics Center (CELOG) that the Government Delegation in Catalonia has set up to catalog, store and send humanitarian material delivered by the Catalan citizens to the Valencian Community. It has been accompanied by about twenty of the entities, administrations and companies that have collaborated with the initiative.
The Government Delegation responded to the need of many Catalan municipalities that were overwhelmed by the solidarity of their neighbors after the debacle caused by the Dana in Valencia. These municipalities did not have the capacity to store all the items donated by their citizens or to transfer them, and they transmitted it to the government delegate.
Prieto sent on November 5 a letter to the municipalities recommending, on the one hand, that they request the entities, companies and neighbors of their municipalities to prioritize economic donations to entities that work in the field.
TWO CELOGS
On the other hand, it promised to open a space to store, catalog and send humanitarian material from the municipalities to Valencia. Thus, on Wednesday, November 6, a sports hall of the Civil Guard Command in Sant Andreu de la Barca was set up as the first space to receive the first items.
This space was intended exclusively for municipalities -- which were coordinating the solidarity of their municipalities -- who were asked to fill out a form to know what they had, and to organize and paletize it before bringing it to CELOG. Those who requested it were given logistical support and pallets and material to send the palletized items.
Once the material began to be received, in the CELOG, with the advice of Creu Roja Catalunya and workers and volunteers of Civil Protection of the Generalitat, Forest Defense Association (ADF) and Solidarity Drivers of TMB, in addition to other individuals, a triage, a separation, management and, above all, a catalog were carried out, to send to Valencia what was needed and where it was needed.
After knowing the volume of material that the municipalities requested to bring, the Delegation began work on November 9 on a second CELOG in a ship ceded by the Port of Barcelona and the Logistics Activity Area (ZAL) of the same, with much more capacity and maneuverability to give entry and exit to the material.
48 hours later, the Government Delegation had enabled the space and since that day, since this same Monday, 75 Catalan municipalities have been served from the CELOG command center - which in addition to the Delegation has the collaboration of the Civil Guard, National Police, Civil Protection of the Delegation and Civil Protection of the Generalitat - and have passed through the center more than 600 pallets with humanitarian aid as a result of the solidarity of the neighbors of these municipalities.
VOLUNTARY ENTITIES AND COMPANY
In addition to the volunteers who have participated in logistics, cataloging and transport, among others, Toyota, Linde, Chep, Fundació Superacció, Associació 4x4, Vicarly Recicly, Promerca, DNA Sindical Seguridad y Servicios de Catalunya, By Demes Group, Securitas Seguridad España, Clece Seguridad, Puente China, ACAES and Enaire, among others, who have contributed material such as electric pallet trucks, trailers, boxes, tapes and other materials to carry out the work
Prieto thanked all of them for their work and explained that he maintains constant contact with the Government and also with the National Emergency Center (CENEM) of Civil Protection of the Government of Spain. It has specified that with the collaboration of companies in Catalonia it has also been possible to carry heavy machinery essential for the recovery of normality “such as crushing machines for large elements, to be able to definitively remove cars and large obstacles from the tracks and lighting towers”.