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One single logistics provider for your B2B national supply chain — from Salta to Ushuaia. Integral operator with 6 services under one contract. 45 years, 23 provinces, 5 owned branches. The only mid-scale company with owned network in the NOA mining corridor and in Patagonia Austral.
B2B industrial supply chains in Argentina are usually fragmented: one operator for the trunk, another for the warehouse, another for capillary distribution, a customs broker for foreign trade, a specialised company for hazmat and another for reverse logistics. Five to seven providers coordinating poorly with each other, each with its own contract, invoice and version of the story when something fails.
That generates three invisible costs: time lost on vendor coordination; traceability gaps in the handoffs where one provider hands over to the next; and diluted accountability when there is a problem and no one owns it. An integral operator removes those three costs at the source.
Coordinating 5 small logistics providers is not cheaper than having an integral operator. Unit prices look lower, but the total chain cost — including management time, handoff errors and accidents without a clear owner — is typically higher.
Each service can be contracted independently. The real value appears when they are integrated: combined planning, consolidated loads, point-to-point traceability and a single commercial team that understands your whole chain.
Each service has a specific SLA and is reported in a consolidated way. The integral client never has to reassemble the puzzle between providers: there is one single dashboard.
We do not outsource the critical nodes. The five branches are owned: infrastructure, people and fleet of ours for more than four decades. This is what makes us unique in the Argentine mid-scale segment.
The owned network at the two operational extremes of the country — mining NOA and Patagonia Austral — is the structural differentiator. No Argentine mid-scale operator combines owned presence in both regions at the same time. For clients with multi-regional operations, this means one single end-to-end provider.
There is no single ideal unit for the whole country. Argentina combines trunk routes fit for bi-trailer with non-consolidated mining roads where only a 6×4 with reinforced traction can enter. That is why we operate a mixed fleet and assign it according to the actual geography of each leg.
For trunk corridors with adequate infrastructure: Buenos Aires to Patagonia, to NEA and central Argentina. Best cost per ton-km when the road allows it.
Regional distribution and general cargo. Curtainsider for palletised cargo accessible from the side, side-tipper for bulk, box trailer for dry and sensitive merchandise.
For foreign trade and consolidated cargo. Direct integration with import/export operations and port-to-depot movements.
For NOA mining sites, austral oil & gas fields and remote points. Prepared for non-consolidated roads, extreme wind and altitude.
Oversized equipment, modules, generators, structures, coils. Route planning, road permits, escort and validation with authorities.
Dedicated units for fuels, chemicals and reactants. Regulatory equipment, ADR-trained drivers and documented contingency plan.
The integral model is not for everyone. It is for companies with real complexity, where coordination across multiple providers has started to become a problem.
Industrial companies with significant annual logistics spend, depots in at least 2 regions of the country and recurring operations that justify a strategic relationship with a single provider.
Simultaneous operations in at least 2 of 3 macro zones: NOA, Centre/AMBA, Patagonia. When the chain crosses the country from north to south, multi-vendor coordination becomes expensive.
Industrial plants that receive imported inputs, move finished product to capillary distribution and require hazmat handling or reverse logistics of by-products.
Lithium, gold, silver, copper, oil & gas, wind, solar. Supply to remote sites, regulated hazmat, special cargo and reverse logistics of equipment for maintenance.
Importers and exporters with flows to/from MERCOSUR, Chile, international markets. They need customs integrated with transport and warehouse.
Argentine subsidiaries of multinationals that prefer a single local provider with compliance, scale and continuous track record, instead of assembling the chain with several small vendors.
The price myth: hiring several specialised providers seems cheaper on a unit basis. In practice, the total chain cost tends to be higher when the invisible costs are added. These are the real ones.
Each vendor has its commercial, operations, review meetings, invoicing and EDI. Multiplied by 5 or 7 providers, the management time spent on logistics coordination easily doubles.
Every time goods move from one vendor to the next, there is a risk of traceability loss, delays, damage and arguments about who is responsible. Handoffs are the structural weak point of the fragmented chain.
When something fails in a multi-vendor chain, each vendor points to the previous one. The client ends up without a single owner and pays the loss. With an integral operator, there is one single owner of the problem.
Five vendors = five report formats, five KPI methodologies, five sources of truth. Consolidating real chain performance becomes a manual Excel job month after month.
Without consolidated volume, no vendor reaches the best rates. The integral operator consolidates loads, plans return legs and optimises combined routes — that lowers the real unit cost, not just the nominal one.
SEDRONAR hazmat, ISO, HSE, customs regulation: each vendor has its own compliance level. Keeping consistency across 5 vendors means 5 audits. With one, it means one.
The Argentine logistics market has well-defined profiles. The important thing is to understand what each kind of operator does and where we add something different. No names, honest framing.
Operators strong in a specific mining node (NOA or austral). Excellent in their area, but they do not cover national chain nor integrate foreign trade, regulated hazmat or reverse logistics at scale.
Wide geographic coverage but B2C / small last-mile focus. They do not fit heavy industrial cargo, oversize, regulated hazmat or dedicated B2B warehousing.
Formal integration, sophisticated processes and international compliance. But they arrive with heavy structure, premium pricing and, in many cases, outsource remote legs of the country.
Only mid-scale operator that combines 6 services under one contract, owned presence in NOA and Patagonia Austral, 45 continuous years, real multilingual (ES/EN/PT/ZH) and the agility of a family business with industrial scale.
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