Cespa, Ferrovial Servicios' urban services and waste treatment subsidiary, has increased its portfolio with new contracts in Madrid, the Canary Islands and Castilla-La Mancha.
In Madrid, the company has positioned itself as one of the main firms providing public services to the City Council after winning the contract to provide street cleaning services until 2014 in the Chamberi District, which has a population of 150,000. The contract is worth almost €76.3 million.
With a workforce of 1,400 required just to clean the streets, Cespa says it will need to significantly increase the number of personnel carrying out this work, which will involve using the latest generation pollutant emission reduction technologies and water consumption reduction systems.
In a further contract win, the Ministry of the Environment, through the Directorate General for Biodiversity, has chosen Cespa to carry out several river bed restoration works and repair of damage caused by the floods and fires in El Hierro and Tenerife (Canary Islands) as well as in the province of Toledo.
The contract includes environmental forestry restoration work for the damage caused by the fires in the island of Tenerife in 2007. It is the largest action of this type that currently exists in Spain, with a budget of €9 million.
Cespa, with a workforce of 15,700 employees, is a subsidiary of Ferrovial Servicios, a leader in urban services and waste treatment provision in Spain and Portugal. It manages, conserves and maintains infrastructures in Spain and the UK and has a handling subsidiary, Swissport, which it says is the world leader in its sector.
Last year Ferrovial Servicios recorded sales of €4.619 billion and increased its workload by 12.7% to €9.726 billion. Investment rose by 114% to 422 million compared to 2006.
20th March 2008