the vigour of the four clusters of suppliers in Asia (China,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India) rests on the availability
of efficient logistics and transport services, including air
transport, which ameliorate the costs of their distance to the
company’s distribution centres in Spain and other markets.
Finally, we offer details of how the Inditex group completely
centralises the distribution of its products to shops. The data
for the Zara logistics hub in Zaragoza (North East of Spain)
illustrate the value given to time in the company’s activities
and how this consideration influences the organisation of
the flows in and out of the hub. Air transport is used to
send garments to distant markets and also for the reception
of high-fashion-content garments from the Asian clusters
and for their quick delivery to various markets despite the
distance