DHL, PPL open reloading centre in Plzen
DHL opened a Kc150 million reloading centre in Plzen, western Bohemia today, Jiri Stojar, DHL Express chief executive for the Czech Republic, told CTK.
“We will create a backbone network of ten main distribution terminals worth almost Kc1 billion in the Czech Republic in three years,” he added.
DHL leased a hall on an area of 21,000 square metres for 15 years in the CTPark Borska pole industrial park together with PPL CZ. Both companies are controlled by Deutsche Post.
The Plzen facility employs more than 100 staff. “We have enough capacity for a growth which reaches 35 percent year-on-year,” said PPL chief executive Jiri Hondl.
“The facility is fully comparable with western Europe. It is very well accessible from the nearby D5 motorway and from the planned western bypass,” said Miroslav Jaros, regional councillor for transport.
DHL covers 46 percent of the express air transport market as the country’s number one and, together with PPL, 26 percent of the parcel service, trailing the Czech Post Office (Ceska posta).
DHL has 285,000 staff in 220 countries and territories of the world. In the Czech Republic, it employs 3,700 staff, while PPL CZ has 480 staff and 600 partners in the country
