Rios Sangiao is a family business now in its third generation in the food liquid transport sector and has always been closely linked to its place of origin.

Our offices have always been based in Oroso (A Coruña, Spain) and from here we have grown to reach international markets, but always with an eye on the place where we started out.

We feel very connected to Galicia, which, with its strong dairy industry, has been and continues to be an essential market for us in the transport of liquid foodstuffs. Furthermore, due to the characteristics of fresh milk, we have specialised in one of the most delicate liquid foodstuffs to transport and ensured that our quality standards have always been the highest. Our land has taught us to work with the utmost care.

And, of course, Oroso has always been our home. It is where our tanker trucks return at the end of the year and where our workshops and offices are located. It is where we are enveloped by the fog and humidity of winter and where we sweat in the stifling heat of summer. But we like it because it is our place.

For all these reasons, we have always wanted to collaborate with the local community, and we are putting this collaboration into practice by supporting sporting activities such as today's Half Marathon and 10 km race on the English Way, organised by Rede Stelar.

We feel part of our community, a large part of our staff belongs to it, and together we work for a social environment with quality employment and social well-being.

Those of us who work in road transport, especially the transport of liquid foodstuffs, know that to arrive on time at our destination, it is not important to drive fast, but rather to plan the route well and avoid setbacks.

Although we usually associate road logistics with experienced drivers, the truth is that behind the collection or delivery of milk, wine, glucose, etc., there is not only a driver and a truck with an insulated tanker, but also a team of people providing technical and planning support.

Our traffic team is based at our offices in Oroso (A Coruña, Spain), and their duties range from optimising route planning to resolving incidents that occur on our vehicles' routes.

Route optimisation ensures that each truck makes the most of every journey. If we have to deliver olive oil to Antwerp, for example, our traffic team looks for a nearby location where they can load the same product or a washing facility to clean the tanker and load it again so that it can return with a new load or
even be taken to another destination, such as Munich in Germany.

The traffic team also plans the farms where our trucks collect fresh milk every day to take it to the factory, taking into account the litres loaded at each farm, the capacity of each insulated tanker and the distance to the factory.

This entire real-time puzzle of routes, driving times, vehicle and isothermal tank positions, service points, loading and unloading points is organised using management software that helps us quickly find the best option for each scenario.

This technology requires continuous training for the team assigned to traffic so that they can implement the improvements that technology offers us through new telemetry systems, artificial intelligence and vehicle parameter management.

So, it has long since ceased to be a matter of starting the truck and heading to the destination. We plan, optimise, anticipate and finally arrive on time. Every collection is made on time and every delivery is made at the right moment so as not to interrupt the logistics chain for liquid food products as delicate as
fresh milk, cream or olive oil.