FM Logistic and its urban delivery arm Citylogin have turned Line 3 of the Madrid metro into a permanent logistics channel for e-commerce flows. The north-south axis now doubles as an integrated freight corridor, a step up from the trial the partners ran in the Spanish capital.
From Pilot to Operation
Citylogin tested the idea in autumn 2024, checking whether the metro could safely carry one leg of last-mile deliveries into central Madrid. The pilot proved the concept worked. FM Logistic then won a formal tender from Metro de Madrid to run logistics on Line 3 and handed execution to Citylogin, described as its strategic partner. What was an experiment is now a standing arrangement.
How It Works
Parcels are consolidated upstream, then moved through the metro and out via a network of micro-hubs and parcel lockers. The system carries shipments for major e-commerce and delivery players including Amazon, GLS and Seur, the Spanish arm of Geopost / DPD, and it also handles reverse logistics flows back through the same channel. Citylogin has built the model over roughly a dozen years under FM Logistic, starting in Rome and Italy, reaching Spain in 2019 and operating in France as well.
Market Context
Daniel Latorre, managing director of Citylogin Ibérica, said the shift to full operation folds logistics flows directly into how the metro runs, making urban delivery quieter and more efficient. He cast last-mile specialisation and public-private cooperation as the building blocks of genuine smart cities. For other dense European capitals weighing congestion and emissions, a working metro-freight model is a reference point worth watching.
