Spanish Highways Association rates Spanish roads as “deficient”.

The Spanish Highways Association (AEC), which assesses the state of Spain’s road infrastructure every two years, has concluded that there is a deficit in the investment needed to maintain the roads. Investment has fallen 5.7% in two years. This deficit affects both state-maintained roads and those managed by Spain’s autonomous communities and provinces.

According to the AEC’s report, around 7.5 billion euros are needed to fix all the roads that have been affected by the fall in investment.

From 2009 to 2019, the network run by the Spanish Transport Ministry has seen its resources allocated for road maintenance and safety reduced by 76%.

It’s because of this that, of the 100,000 kilometres of road assessed by the AEC, 10,000 kilometres – or 1 in every 10 km – are exhibiting serious deterioration. The most common types of damage are edge cracking, deformation, wide fissures, rutting, disintegration and erratic cracking. This deterioration can be found on more than 50% of the road surface and they affect comfort, efficiency and safety on the road.

The study shows that as well as the damage to the roads that needs repairing, there are also 370,000 road traffic signs requiring renovation (over 70% with out-of-date reflective material) and markings that require repainting on 38,000 km of road.

However, it’s not all bad news. Barriers and bollards have been maintained or improved since the previous assessment.

The AEC has indicated that the roads received their worst score in 2020 years, with their condition rated as “deficient”.

To improve the state of the roads, the Spanish Highways Association proposes a funding model for road infrastructure based on three sources: public budgets, European funding and toll collection.

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The Andamur forest grows year after year

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At Andamur, in addition to our commitment to people, we take our responsibility towards our surroundings and the future of the environment seriously. We’re already taking a lot of action to reduce our environmental impact.

One of the issues that most concerns us is the creation of forests. Which is why we planted the Andamur Forest in 2019, in partnership with the Bosqueo2 association. The initiative involves planting a variety of tree species such as wild olive, Mediterranean buckthorn, black hawthorn and mastic in the Andamur Forest to see it grow each year.

In 2021, for the third year running, we remain committed to our forest. However, because of the pandemic, we haven’t been able to hold our usual team-building days and just a few colleagues were able to attend to represent the whole Andamur team.

Andamur’s fight to protect the planet and improve our surroundings is possible thanks to everything that the Andamur Forest brings to the environment:

  • It absorbs 5.6 tons of CO2 a year to offset emissions and improve our carbon footprint.
  • It combats the desertification of the land by planting tree and shrub species that protect and regenerate the soil.
  • It benefits the biodiversity of the environment thanks to the range of species planted.
  • It increases the presence of wildlife.
  • It improves the availability of food for wildlife.
  • It generates seeds that can spread naturally and expand the plant life to the surrounding area.
  • It improves the land’s resilience and ability to regenerate in the event of future episodes of drought, pests or fire thanks to the reforestation carried out with various native species. The Andamur Forest is ready to combat the climate change that threatens us.

This initiative is part of our CSR Plan #TakingCareOfWhatMatters, aimed at protecting the environment. The environment is everyone’s business, and the benefits that the Andamur Forest brings show us that every step we take contributes to its protection. At Andamur, we want to continue to do our bit to ensure the best possible future for our planet and to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and SDG 13 Cimate Action in particular.

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Andamur’s national network of service stations continues to grow

With 43 service stations across Spain, Andamur continues to position itself as a brand in full expansion, equipped to offer the best services on routes to Europe.

From tomorrow, Wednesday 10 February, Andamur has a new station in Barcelona’s Zona Franca. With this new station, Andamur now has two partner stations in this prime location between Barcelona’s port and airport.

The GM Fuel-branded service station, Servei Carrer 3, is located on road 29 of BZ 50-62 (Sector BZ) and offers a wide range of services for carrier, including Diesel A and AdBlue, 24h service (staffed from 5 am to 10 pm), restaurant, café, supermarket, laundry, showers, shop, toilets and self-service.

A safe bet to ensure that Andamur continues to be your ally on the road in 2021.

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Andamur maintains its commitment to healthy living and renews its sports sponsorships

Andamur maintains its commitment to healthy living and renews its sports sponsorships

At Andamur, promoting healthy living has been a key part of all our projects since the beginning. Offering healthy, high-quality food in our restaurants, providing our customers with exercise facilities like the gym at the Andamur La Junquera service station and offering tips on doing exercise in a lorry cab are some of our initiatives for promoting healthy living.

Andamur remains committed to health and we know that one of the first steps in promoting healthy living is to get behind sport. That’s why we’re renewing our sponsorship this year of six local sports teams based near each of our service areas.

Andamur La Junquera: U.E La Jonquera

Andamur Lorca: Lorca Féminas A.D

Andamur El Límite: Huércal Overa C.F

Andamur Guarromán: Íberos Rugby Linares

Andamur Pamplona: Basket Navarra Club

Andamur San Román: Agurain Kirol Elkartea S.D Salvatierra

2020 was a tough year for these teams, who had to adapt their competitions to the restrictions that the pandemic brought about but always remained determined to keep going and achieve all their sporting objectives.

Committed to society and to health

This initiative pursues UN Sustainable Development Goal 3, Good Health and Wellbeing: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. The SDGs address challenges that we face every day, and their purpose is to achieve social equality.

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Founding of the first Green Hydrogen association in the Region of Murcia

AHMUR holds first assembly

  • Fostering research and implementation of renewable energy projects, as well as guiding energy transition and establishing the Region’s Green Hydrogen Valley, are the key targets of this new association.

 

  • Andamur, Enagás, Primafrio and Soltec, leading firms in the transport, logistics and energy industries, are the main association founders and members.

 

  • Cetenma, which is Murcia’s Energy and Environment Technology Center, provides technical guidance to the association

 

Murcia, February  3rd, 2021. AHMUR, pioneer Green Hydrogen association in the Region of Murcia, recently held its first assembly. This newly-created organization aims to lead energy transition in the Murcian region and to establish itself as reference and support for future projects in the area of technological applications and considerations linked to Green Hydrogen in a variety of sectors. A sustainable development model aiming for a carbon-free economy supported by renewable energies, including green hydrogen.

This association was founded by Murcia Region companies which are industry leaders, such as Andamur, specialists in comprehensive freight transports in European routes, with a large gas station network in 9 countries, as well as cards for fuel, tolls, repairs and taxes; Enagás, main natural gas carrier and Technical Operator of Spain’s Gas System; Grupo Primafrio, leading company in refrigerated transport of fruit and vegetable and pharmaceutical products; and Soltec, leading firm specializing in comprehensive photovoltaic solar energy solutions, with a special focus on solar tracking systems and innovation. All of them are supported by Cetenma, Murcia’s Energy and Environment Technology Center and Technical Lead for this association.

AHMUR was created to promote scientific analyses and research for implementation of projects based on renewable energies and green hydrogen. AHMUR focuses on serving as an instrument to inform and raise awareness amongst citizens. The aim is to give rise to a collective consciousness that fosters the use of clean energies and green hydrogen as a feasible alternative in order to reduce emissions and put an end to the negative consequences of today’s climate change.

On the other hand, this association intends to foster projects based on clean energies and green hydrogen, supporting public-private collaboration for dissemination and implementation of projects based on these technologies. In this regard, the draft for Murcia’s first hydrogen station was completed and successfully presented on December 19.

Some of the main aspects addressed by the Founding Assembly were the presentation and approval of the 2021 action plan; the appointment of key association positions; the approval of the 2021 budget; AHMUR’s assessment of other national and European associations in the area of green hydrogen and green hydrogen valleys; as well as the evaluation, and if applicable presentation to MITECO (Spain’s Department of Environmental Transition and Demographic Challenge), of the first green hydrogen projects in the Region of Murcia.

 

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