Poczta Polska is building a strong position in the courier market. A sorting center at Panattoni Park Kalisz is set to help

The warehouse section at Panattoni Park Kalisz at ul. Rozwojowa 1 is a modern operational space, characterized by easy access to docks and entry directly from the yard level. The investment is integrated with the country's main transport routes. The hall is located 5 km from the center of Kalisz, near the city bypass and national roads 25 and 12.

- The investments currently being carried out by Poczta Polska are a response to the systematically developing e-commerce sector (...). The goal is to improve the efficiency of the currently operating logistics network, the implementation of which will translate into increased work efficiency, ensuring the timeliness of courier shipments at the level expected by customers, and will ultimately ensure long-term development - said CEO of Poczta Polska Tomasz Zdzikot.

The company has a total area of 4.3 thousand sqm, which consists of over 3.7 thousand sqm of warehouse space with 8 loading docks, a drive-in gate and 4 courier gates, over 650 sqm of office and social space, 23 parking spaces and a loading yard.

- The transformation of logistics infrastructure is one of the key investment activities of Poczta Polska. We are consistently modernizing our sorting centers to provide the best possible solutions and conditions for handling increasing parcel volumes. Our goal is to be a leader in the courier market, and the development of logistics infrastructure will be accompanied by a change in the service offer to be as well-adapted to the needs of our customers as possible - said Vice President Andrzej Bodziony. He added that about 50 people will work in the sorting center. - As for the entire Kalisz agglomeration, about 400 employees work in the Kalisz area - he conveyed.

Until now, logistics processes were carried out at the distribution center in Ostrów Wlkp. at ul. Towarowa 3, where conditions significantly limited the possibility of efficient loading and unloading of vehicles due to insufficient operational space for carrying out current tasks.

- Acquiring new locations necessary for the development of logistics infrastructure is an important element of Poczta Polska's real estate management policy. New sorting centers will provide better transshipment infrastructure and better technical condition, and this translates into the quality of shipment handling and improved working conditions - emphasized Vice President of Poczta Krzysztof Falkowski.

In the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poczta Polska provides logistics services to 13.3 thousand contract customers. These are entities from, among others, the e-commerce industry, the public finance sector, and stationary sales chains. In addition, the company provides a pallet shipment service, which is used by over 2,100 customers.

The average daily volume of pallets sent is approx. 5,300 units. Shipments in this area of operation are delivered by a total of over 2 thousand couriers and postmen; every month, over 88 million letter and advertising shipments and about 7 million parcel and courier shipments pass through the Greater Poland sorting centers - in Poznań and Kalisz.

The company is implementing a project to transform the logistics network to handle the increasing volume of CEP (courier, express, parcel) shipments. The implementation of this project will enable a smooth transformation of the current logistics network, adapted mainly to handling letters, into a target network in which CEP and e-commerce shipments will lead.

The Ministry of State Assets has decided to recapitalize Poczta Polska in the amount of 190 million PLN. These funds will be used exclusively for the implementation of investments in the Logistics Network Architecture (ASL) planned for many years. The planned total amount of capital expenditure for this purpose is approx. 760 million PLN in the years 2021-2025.

Recently, Poczta Polska and Panattoni signed a lease agreement for over 50 thousand sqm of operational and logistics space for a second sorting center in Warsaw. The new operational space will serve as a distribution hub for handling parcel and pallet shipments arriving from other sorting centers in the country and from its own area of operation. At the same time, work is underway to launch sorters for automatic distribution of CEP shipments in existing Poczta Polska logistics units in Wrocław, Lublin and Lisie Ogon near Bydgoszcz.