SAVA operates a 3,200 m² warehouse in Castellar del Vallès, in the Barcelona metropolitan area, with four loading docks and 24/7 surveillance. Receiving, floor-stacked palletised storage, stock management and case-level order preparation all happen there, and it is the same building where the European groupage corridors are consolidated — so goods coming out of storage join a departure without a shuttle run to another hub. Storage is ambient: there is no chilled or frozen storage, and no refrigerated transport.
Partly, and the limit is the point: SAVA picks to the case, not to the single item, so it fits retail and B2B replenishment and e-commerce that ships whole cartons — not direct-to-consumer picking of one unit out of a box. What does run as one chain is receiving at the Castellar del Vallès warehouse, floor-stacked palletised storage with customer stock visibility, case-level order preparation, and then distribution: last-mile delivery in Spain and in the destination countries of SAVA's corridors, regional distribution for repeat drops, and returns management. Orders received before 12:00 leave the warehouse the same day when a collection is scheduled to load that day and the nature of the goods allows it.
Your stock sits in our 3,200 m² warehouse in Castellar del Vallès, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. We receive it, store it palletised, keep the stock records, pick the orders by the case and send them out — on the same scheduled corridors that carry our groupage across Europe.
The warehouse is in Castellar del Vallès, in the Barcelona metropolitan area, and it is the same building where our European groupage is consolidated. That matters more than the floor area: a pallet leaving your storage bay does not need a shuttle run to a separate hub before it can join a departure.
Cross-docking runs in the same building too. A consignment that only needs re-sorting onto an outbound trailer is re-sorted and dispatched rather than put away — fewer touches, and fewer touches means less damage.
Four steps, in the order they actually happen. Everything in this section we do ourselves in Castellar del Vallès — our own building, our own staff. Where something further down this page is provided by a partner instead, we say so. If what you need is not here, ask, and you will get a straight yes or no rather than a maybe.
Your inbound is taken in at the dock and booked in against your paperwork. It is the same process whether it arrives from your supplier or off one of our own corridors.
Goods are stored on pallets, floor-stacked rather than in racking, at ambient temperature. We do not offer chilled or frozen storage, and we do not run refrigerated transport either — better you read that here than find out after you have moved your stock.
We keep the stock records, and you get access to your own inventory. Knowing what is left should not mean sending us an email and waiting for the reply.
We pick to the case, not to the single item: an order line is a full carton or a full pallet, never one unit taken out of a box. Orders received before 12:00 go out the same day, provided there is a collection scheduled to load that day and the goods allow it — some cargo cannot be turned round that fast. Tell us what an order looks like in your business and we will tell you whether it fits the way we work.
Goods can be held under a customs-bonded arrangement when your flow needs it. The authorisation is not ours: it belongs to a licensed customs agent we work with, the same way the declarations on our customs-managed lanes do, and where the goods sit under bond is part of what the agent arranges. It is set up case by case rather than sold as a standing product, so ask before you plan around it and we will tell you what the agent can do for your commodity and your route.
How our customs-managed lanes workOur Barcelona hub has ADR-qualified handling for consolidating compatible classes in transit — not every groupage operator will take dangerous goods onto a shared trailer at all, and it is the difference between a consignment waiting for a special arrangement and a consignment leaving on the next departure. What we do not do is store them: warehousing dangerous goods is a separate authorisation and we do not hold it.
ADR transport from SpainStorage is half the job. What we do once the order comes in:
Final delivery in Spain and in the destination countries of the corridors we already run, to business and to residential addresses. Outside that footprint we will say so rather than promise a postcode we do not serve.
Repeat drops to the same delivery points, planned as a programme rather than booked one at a time, over the same footprint: Spain and the destinations our corridors already serve.
Replenishment for shops, distributors and e-commerce operations that move full cartons — stored, picked and carried as one chain rather than a warehouse and a carrier blaming each other. What it is not is direct-to-consumer (D2C) picking: we do not take single items out of a carton to make up a consumer's parcel.
Reverse logistics: what comes back has to go somewhere too. A return is received and inspected, and then it is either put back into stock or destroyed, whichever you instruct. We agree the rule with you rather than assume it.
A 3PL page that advertises pallet positions is advertising an average — and we do not have positions to advertise: the warehouse is floor-stacked rather than racked, so what we allocate is square metres out of 3,200 m². Your operation is not the average either, and the four things below are what decide whether this warehouse fits it — so we ask them first and answer you in writing.
Four questions beat four numbers that turn out not to describe you.
Storage in the Barcelona metropolitan area, in the same building that consolidates our scheduled export corridors. Tell us what you move and we will tell you what we can take on.
Castellar del Vallès, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is 3,200 m², with four loading docks and 24/7 surveillance, and it is the same building where our European groupage is consolidated.
Yes. You get access to your inventory, so checking what is left does not mean emailing us and waiting for a reply.
None, in the sense the question usually means: the warehouse is floor-stacked rather than racked, so there is no grid of positions to count. What we have is 3,200 m² of floor. Tell us your volume and how fast it turns over and we will tell you whether we can take it — that is a faster answer than a number on a page.
No. The warehouse is ambient, and we do not run refrigerated transport either. If your product needs temperature control we are the wrong operator for it, and we would rather say so now than at the loading dock.
Both, and that is why this page exists: receiving, storage, stock records and order preparation happen in the building that also consolidates our scheduled corridors, and final delivery and returns follow from there — in Spain and in the destination countries those corridors already serve. Order preparation here means case-level picking: full cartons and full pallets, not single items taken out of a box to make up a consumer's parcel.