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CASE STUDY
CHILE

BRINGING INNOVATION
INTO LOGISTICS

MEDLOG operates a logistics centre in Santiago, Chile,
where container storage, maintenance and repair and
warehousing services are provided. This logistics
centre is comprised of 60,000 m of land. It employs
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97 people and handles approximately 3,000 containers
per month.
MEDLOG plans to significantly invest in innovative
technologies and hybrid lifting equipment for its
containers at its terminals. In parallel with its
investment in state-of-the-art technologies, MEDLOG
makes sure to train employees at its terminals.
Among the investments towards more environmentally
sound business activities, MEDLOG purchased the
latest generation of engines for its lifting equipment,
thereby reducing important CO emissions and
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tremendously improving fuel consumption. MEDLOG
also invested in water recycling tools for the cleaning
of containers.
MEDLOG is also constantly renewing its trucking fleet
for short distance haulage to equip them with the latest
technologies and with engines of the highest stand-
ards, wherever road infrastructure allows it. In addition
to reducing CO emissions, the newer engines on trucks
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provide important fuel consumption and cost savings.

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