The Polish Post has launched a new sorting room in Bialystok
Later this year, Poczta Polska will increase the area of its sorting plant by over 23,000. m 2 . A new hall with an area of over 5.4 thousand has just been opened in Bialystok. M 2 to improve the service of packages in Podlasie. Additional warehouses are the next stage of implementing the new logistics architecture, which is a response to e -commerce development.
Poczta Polska sees the development potential of the eastern regions of the country. The new S8 expressway improving communication between Białystok and Warsaw, the Via Carpatia and Via Baltica routes built are determined by the great potential of Podlasie for the development of logistics, also in international traffic. The first stage of postal changes in this region is to transfer the processes of sorting letters and packages to the rented hall in Panattoni Park Białystok. Then, according to the strategic plans of the post office on the plot in Choroszcz near Bialystok, a modern, regional sorting plant will be created serving both letters, KEP shipments (courier, courier, package) and pallet shipments.
Until now, the sorting plant in Bialystok was in three locations. By renting a new facility at ul. Velvet 8 Shipping service will be simpler and faster. 190 postcards will work in it. During the parcel summit, an increase in KEP shipments is expected to be an average of 20% compared to last year. For this reason, it is needed to increase the surface and capacity of the Białystok Expedition and District Faculty.
The new hall for the sorting plant in Bialystok is located in the northwestern part of the city, 8 km from the center, in the vicinity of road No. 65 and near the S8 express road. There are 44 parking spaces for passenger cars and 6 places for trucks. The hall has been equipped with modern, energy -saving LED lighting.
In October, the post office commissioned a new hall in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, in the second half of November the facility in Niepołomice will be launched. Thanks to this, the company's sorting plants will increase by 23,000. m 2 of a modern warehouse space.
Last year, the sorting surface was enlarged with new halls in Koszalin and Olsztyn. A new sorting machine in Zabrze was launched serving southern Poland. At the beginning of next year, moving to a new facility at Warsaw Okęcie is planned, where international parcels will be served. In the following years, Poczta Polska will continue to develop logistics infrastructure, investing in new logistics facilities and sorters to develop KEP.
The construction of a new logistics architecture is a reaction of the national postal operator to dynamic changes in the developing KEP market. Poczta Polska report entitled "The development of the market of courier, express and parcel shipments (KEP) in Poland 2014-2023" assumes that in 2023 the value of the KEP market in Poland will be nearly PLN 12 billion. This means an increase of nearly 50% compared to data from last year. It is forecasted that in 2023 KEP operators will serve almost 850 million packages, i.e. twice as much as in 2017.