The abandonment of fossil fuels is something that all of us who work in transport have in mind because every day the need to reduce the carbon footprint of our activity becomes more evidente, and in this paradigm shift we need the involvement of companies and administrations.

The reality (today) in the scenario of electrification of road transport

However, it is a change of stage and paradigm in which we need the involvement of several actors: in one hand, public administrations, facilitating and simplifying investments in new infrastructures and encouraging the renewal of the transport fleet, and on the other hand, energy and transport companies, which must do their part and take the change as an investment.

Compliance with regulations and standards

In practice, all these developments are extremely complex and costly, so that today the electrification of transport is not yet viable due to the scarcity of suitable recharging points for industrial vehicles, which must have a power output of more than 350kW. Only 1.2% of the points reach this power, as indicated in the magazine ‘Ruta del transporte’. In addition, the location and environment of many of these points are focused on recharging cars, making it impossible to park a truck.

Although new charging points are being installed, we are at a very low quota for the target of ensuring that by the end of 2025, 15% of the TEN-T road network will have public access charging stations for heavy electric vehicles in each direction of traffic and that each charging station will offer an available power of at least 1,400 kW and include at least one charging point with an individual available power of at least 350 kW’.

The fundamental objective of Rios Sangiao is to offer the best transport and storage services to meet the main needs of our customers. This is possible thanks to the constant effort to study and analyse the requirements of the parties involved in order to define all the risks and opportunities that exist in the working environment.

Integration and motivation of the staff

At Ríos Sangiao we want our employees to carry out their work with total involvement in the daily tasks and in achieving all the objectives set.

In this sense, the company manager must encourage activities and actions that strengthen the sense of togetherness among employees by setting common objectives that can be measured and achieved. This will be possible through informative talks and meetings about the company and future projects.

Continuous training

It is important to set as an essential purpose the continuous training of Rios Sangiao's employees by means of the realisation and subsequent approval of an annual training plan. In addition to a detailed study of the training needs of the employees.

In the end, training is crucial for any employee to feel fulfilled and motivated.

Customer orientation

Ríos Sangiao's staff is fully aware that fulfilling the wishes and expectations of customers is at the centre of all the projects and activities we carry out.

Commitment to service

At Rios Sangiao we ensure that the services we provide to our customers meet the specified (legal and regulatory) requirements. Meeting these requirements is the ultimate goal of the service.

Quality of work

The quality of work is achieved mainly through the effective detection of defects and the taking of the necessary measures to mitigate the consequences of these defects and thus avoid their repetition. In addition to the definition of actions and programmes aimed at preventing non-conformities.

The company's management wants the staff to collaborate and participate actively in the maintenance of the Integrated Management System, as it is an effort that benefits everyone.

As you can see, our quality policy is fundamental when carrying out the actions and tasks proposed as a company. The training of Ríos Sangiao's employees is key to achieving motivation in daily work. This motivation facilitates cohesion among employees, which fosters an improvement in customer satisfaction orientation, service commitment and quality of work.

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Did you know that there are two types of tank transport for food liquids?

A few years ago the regulations were the same for food liquids with destination to factories for animal use and human use, but now the current regulation requires that the equipments used to the food liquid transport for human use are not allowed in any case to transport liquid products for animal use.

That regulation made us make a decisive commitment to the market niche to which we contribute the most and were we are clearly specialized: the transport of food liquids for human use.

The difference lays on the use that will be done to the transported products, having different sanity security protocols the products destinated to animal consume and human consume, even being sometimes the same products.

Thus we have dedicated all of our resources and the 100% of our fleet to this type of transport. This fact make us be more eficiente on the calculation of our routes and also on the management of the resources at our disposal; furthermore, we implement procedures and certificated quality controls that are applied to all of the proccess and out vehicles without giving space to mistakes resulting from the type of cargo or the destination of it.