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Saba ended 2022 with 24 new operations, completed in most of the countries in which it is present, and which represent the addition of almost 32,000 parking spaces to its network. Similarly, the Group renewed 64 contracts, representing over 38,000 parking spaces, in all the territories in which it operates. At the close of 2022, Saba was present in 180 cities in 9 countries (Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Chile, Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Andorra) and manages 333,379 parking spaces in 950 car parks.

Exterior image of the Saba Ospedale San Martino car park, opened in the Italian city of Genoa.

The most notable operation was the award, in the United Kingdom, of a contract for a period of five years for the management of the car parks at Transport for London stations, the local body responsible for most of the London transport network , including the Underground, buses, taxis, trams and some train lines. The contract includes the management of 79 car parks throughout the network, with 10,567 parking spaces, all of them with a barrierless system, which makes vehicle entrances and exits more agile. This access, exit and payment method is possible thanks to the new technologies implemented by Saba in its car parks, with similar experiences in this country and in Germany.

The Saba group directs all its actions to becoming consolidated as a benchmark operator and consolidating the image of car parks as sustainable urban mobility hubs, for people and goods, committing to intermodality as a key element of traffic management in cities. Transport for London is certainly a good example of a combination of different means of transport, in which the car park is established as the point of origin and/or destination of the journey. In this way, the company demonstrated its capacity to manage all types of parking available in the market, including so-called Park and Ride, as in this case.

In Italy, the most relevant event in 2022 was the opening of the Ospedale San Martino car park, in Genoa, after a two-year construction project undertaken by Saba

In addition to this operation, Saba renewed the management contract in the UK for six underground car parks in the City of London, with 1,721 parking spaces, and the award of other contracts in hospitals (Royal United Hospitals of Bath and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust), as well as the car park management contract for the new Unity Place offices in Milton Keynes (head office of Banco Santander in the UK), currently under construction, with 855 parking spaces.

In Spain, the Seville Port Authority awarded Saba the concession for the Muelle Delicias car park (270 spaces) and concluded an agreement for the refurbishing and improvement of the Plaça d'Europa car park, in Platja d'Aro (Girona), a project in which the company has invested 1.8 million euros. With the refurbishment, the infrastructure has been equipped with an electric car charging pool fed by a photovoltaic panel canopy.

In Italy, the most relevant event in 2022 was the opening of the Ospedale San Martino car park, in Genoa, after a two-year construction project undertaken by Saba. The car park has 422 parking spaces on five underground floors. It is one of the benchmark medical centres in Italy, with more than 5,000 employees and 1,400 beds. Similarly, Saba was awarded the lease contract for the Cola di Rienzo car park in Rome, with 110 spaces, and the concession for the Cattinara Hospital car parks in Trieste, with 163 spaces.

In Portugal, one of the most notable operations was the lease of the Península car park, in Porto, with 553 spaces and which serves a building with offices and shopping centres, as well as the Tavira Regulated Zone (881 spaces) and the Campanha Intermodal Terminal (230 spaces), among others.

In Chile, Saba extended the car park management contract for the Clínica Alemana (2,745 parking spaces), in Santiago de Chile. Similarly, the company concluded the management contract for the operation of the car parks of the Marina group shopping centres, with close to 6,000 parking spaces in the cities of Viña del Mar, Santiago, Curicó and Concepción.

For its part, in Germany Saba was awarded the rental contract for the City Galerie shopping centre car park (1,611 spaces), in the city of Aschaffenburg. In fact, Saba has deployed the first barrierless technology test in the car park in the city of Düren, with a capacity of 407 spaces, the first test of barrierless technology (apart from the railway station car parks in the UK).

In the Czech Republic, the most relevant operation was the contract for the management of the Vinohradska Hospital (425 parking spaces) in the capital, Prague, while in Slovakia up to 8 contracts have been renewed, covering nearly 3,700 parking spaces.