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Shared Services Centers: Nearshoring

The fifth largest Spanish urban agglomeration has a potential pool of university graduates and communications links which make it an ideal location for Iberian Peninsula corporate headquarters and shared services centers.

Aragon offers:

• The high speedtrain puts Zaragoza just 75 minutes from the centers of Madrid and Barcelona. The modern business center in the area around the station will make Zaragoza a meeting point between the two cities
• New office spaces: the Expo 2008fairgrounds, Milla Digital, Walqa, PLAZA
• Top national centerfor training in new technologies in Zaragoza
• Complete range of educational options at the university level: specializing in technical and financial qualifications, with 35,000 students and 6,000 graduates each year.
• Over 40% of Aragon’s population between 25 and 35 holds a university degree.
• Ease in finding graduates with language skills.
• Employee loyalty: turnover rates are much lower than those for Spain’s major cities, making it possible to get the most out of training investment.
• Lower salary coststhan Spain’s major cities.
• Free worker hiring and training services,subsidies for job creation.

Top companies in the sector

EDS, Barclays, Microsoft, Vodafone, Accenture, GFT, Atos Origin, Fujitsu, Getronics, Steria, Telefónica I+D.

Logistics

Aragon's location in the most industrialized area of Spain has been a crucial impetus for its economy. Thanks to ongoing improvements in the transport infrastructure, companies from any sector, and logistics in particular, have found Aragon to be an exceptional location for carrying out their logistics activities.

Aragon offers:

• A strategic location where the main transport routes on the Iberian Peninsula come together: Madrid-Barcelona, the Atlantic-Mediterranean corridor, links with France.
• Excellent transport links via freeways, rail platforms for freight and air transport infrastructure.
• Specialized training providing by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Zaragoza.
• Two commercial airports: Zaragoza and Huesca. Zaragoza's 3,700 m. runways offer ideal conditions for accommodating the largest cargo airplanes (Antonov).
• A new 70 ha. airport logistics area located at the foot of the runways in the Zaragoza Airport enlargement.
• Top-flight intermodal logistics platforms: 4.7 million m2 of new developments: PLAZA Zaragoza, PLATEA Teruel, PLHUS Huesca and PLFraga
• Dry ports with customs services and rail links.
• Road-rail intermodality: new PLAZA rail complex www.plazalogistica.com
• Incentives of up to 15% of the investment.

Top companies in the sector

Zara, Imaginarium, Porcelanosa, Gefco, Grupo Carreras, Ochoa, Azkar, Nacex, Gazeley, Arc, Prologis, Giraud, Christian Salvesen, DSV, Geodis, Caladero, DHL, TNT, ABX, Esprinet, JCV Intercontainer, Kuhne & Nagel, Ewals, and others.