Polish Post with another hall. Receipt of the logistics complex in Dark near Radzymin
Poczta Polska has been consistently implementing one of the most important investments in recent years, focused on optimizing the efficiency of the logistics network. The company is gradually transforming its logistics infrastructure from a letter to Paczkowa. The new sorting plant is the largest and most modern logistics complex of Poczta Polska.
Poczta Polska received a new logistics facility located in the town of Ciemne near Radzymin near Warsaw. Thus, the company has gained the fifteenth expeditionary and dispersion knot, serving parcel and pallet shipments coming from other distribution nodes in the country and from its own area of operation, including those broadcast by mass customers. High storage and commercial warehouses will also be located here. The new facility will also operate the current location in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, which was dedicated to a pallet shipment, but above all it will be the new, the largest in the entire logistics network of Poczta Polska with a node servicing KEP parcels.
- Investment in Ciemno near Radzymin is one of the most important tasks currently conducted in the company. Acquiring a new logistics facility in the immediate vicinity of Warsaw will allow for servicing the growing volume of parcel and pallet shipments and automation of logistics processes. Already in the first half of next year, the hall will be equipped with the largest Sorter Paczek in the company - says Krzysztof Falkowski, president of Poczta Polska.
The whole complex consists of 3 buildings - Hala Cross Dock with an area of over 12 thousand. m 2 , warehouse - operational hall with an area of over 28 thousand. m 2 with a shelter with an area of 5,000 m 2 and a dispatching house with an area of 660 m 2 . In addition to operating buildings, there are rooms with a support and technical facilities in the facility - the whole will be located on an area of over 11 ha.
A high storage magazine, a commercial magazine and a surface dedicated to the pallet service were located in the Cross Dock hall. The building is equipped with 36 hydraulic ramps adapted for loading and unloading a full range of vehicles from 8-pet buses from DMC to 3.5 t to 40-ton sets. The implementation of both national and international palette and storage is planned in this facility.
National palette shipment is a service provided throughout the country. It involves the transport of goods packed and placed on the Euro (or other loading unit) from the place of collection to the place of service using several means of transport. It is recommended for the transport of goods, industrial products, together with goods covered by the SENT Act and selected classes of ADR goods. The service is addressed to customers operating in the B2B and B2C sectors, including companies from the e-commerce market.
The high storage storage warehouse is planned to provide a storage service as one of the elements of the supply chain, which was directed to a wide group of customers - both production and commercial companies, seeking to optimize logistics costs. The offer includes activities related to accepting the goods to the warehouse, storage and management of inventory, completing orders, securing goods, issuing and periodic inventory.
Sales magazine - also found in the abovementioned Hala - will act as a distribution center in the field of commercial activities of post offices of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship. This warehouse will be accepted by the goods, confection and their shipping directly to all post offices.
The processes of developing KEP shipments (courier, machine, package) - machine sorting process with a separate part for sorting parcels will be implemented in the warehouse and operational hall. The facility was equipped with 60 courier gates. In addition, to accelerate the logistics process, a shed was created next to the building, which will allow at the same time unloading and loading about 80 courier cars.
- We have ambitions to make the post office a leader on the courier parcel market. Our goal is to achieve a significant increase in revenues in this segment, maintain a high standard of services rendered and employee comfort. That is why we focus on modern logistics solutions. The largest and most modern logistics center of the post office is created in the new halls received today, in which, thanks to the investment in the work sorting machine, it will be largely automated - says Andrzej Bodziony, vice president of Poczta Polska.
From July this year The sorter installation is underway in the hall for the automatic chapter of shipments. The installation of the entire structure with working and service platforms has already been completed and the entire sorter track has been assembled. The assembly of 6 automatic lines introducing shipments to the sorter has now begun. The operational performance of the device will sort 15 thousand. shipments per hour. Its launch will take place in the second quarter of 2024.
The Warsaw II object was obtained in the form of BTS rental. His main contractor - Panattoni - was preceded by an analysis of the company's needs, both business and environmental. The contractor took care not only of functionality, but also ecology. The magazine has a BREEAM certificate at the Excerent level, which means a high standard in the field of environmental protection, care for climate and local communities, as well as user comfort. In addition, the facility has been equipped with intelligent energy management systems, water resource protection, chargers for electric cars, green zones at offices and bicycle stands.
Poczta Polska undertakes a number of actions aimed at modernizing the current logistics network and its coloring. Sorters for the automatic development of KEP shipments have already been commissioned in the sorting plants in Wrocław, Lublin and Lisim Tail near Bydgoszcz. In the next few years, this will enable the company to achieve goals that are one of the pillars of the strategy, including the further development of perspective courier and parcel services, e-commerce and logistics.