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  My research tip for today; May 5, 2020, is just a playlist of road videos from the Kingdom of Spain.
And to highlight the magnificent work of youtuber Buer Mir, who continues to record the road over Spain.
  So I believe that it can be extremely useful for SCS Software and its mappers.
  So far he has 56 videos of routes taken.
  So it's my research tip to use the videos of this youtuber on Spanish highways.
Link play list ROADS SPAIN - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFnLOcY ... G5RPeYM_5Z

If you visit this website, you can find info about all the marble quarries in Spain.

http://www.marmola.es/marmol/canteras-d ... pa%C3%B1a/

The most famous marble quarries in Spain come from these 3 provinces in the South east:

• Almería - Macael https://www.google.com/maps?q=marmol+ma ... BHoECBAQBg
• Alicante West of the province https://www.google.com/maps/search/cant ... 5293,7.75z
• Murcia - Cehegín https://www.google.com/maps/search/marm ... 2095,7.46z

Barrel colour means producer (either Repsol, Cepsa or BP).
Pic shows year of construction and production per year.

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Spain produces 30% of the world cork. Stats are shown in ton.

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Notice that there are 2 Iveco factories.

Although it is unstable time for the economy and there might be some changes... you can never really know for sure in this industry.

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What Spain exports and imports:

• Industrial technology
• Chemical Industry
• Fashion
• Raw Materials and partially manufactured goods
• Construction and auxiliary mechanic industry
• Fruit and vegetables
• Environment and energy
• Housing

Spanish exports:

• France 16%
• Germany 10%
• Portugal 7,5%
• Italy 7%
• UK 6,8%
• US 3,7%
• Netherlands 2,9%
• Belgium 2,6%
• Others 50%

Spanish imports:

• Germany 11%
• France 11%
• China 7%
• Italy 6%
• US 4%
• Netherlands 4%
• UK 4%
• Portugal 4%
• Others 50%

FRUIT
Notice: strawberries, melons and watermelons are listed despite they are not fruits.
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VEGETABLES
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LIVESTOCK
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WINE
Notice: Spain is the world's biggest wine exporter.

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OLIVE OIL
Notice: Spain produces more than half the world production of olive oil

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Esproquet wrote: ↑07 May 2020 10:09Spain produces 30% of the world cork. Stats are shown in ton.

And Portugal, if I'm right, is the main world producer of that material. So, Iberia will concentrate probably over 75% of the worldwide production of it an it's a product usually hauled on trucks.

Also, it's a material VERY light and cheap; they have to seize the volume of the trailer as much they can to make the trip profitable enough. So, specially when hauling raw cork (big bark pieces directly from the tree), is usually loaded at hand into the trailer, piece by piece, stacking them from the floor up to the roof filling every space possible. There's a cork dealer at the side of AP-7 north Barcelona where those loads process could be seen from the highway. Sometimes I've pass by there when they were starting to load the trailer and when I returned from visiting my client the trailer was still being load.

Regards

That’s rather interesting. If hauling cork is so poorly paid (unless I misunderstood you) that they want to fill the trucks carefully to maximize volume utilization, I wonder if the labour to hand-balm it is very inexpensive, or else it would be expensive to load?