Lithuania Post to redesign logistics chain around central sorting facility
Lithuania Post has started construction on a new logistics centre that will be double the size of the company’s existing mail sorting centre. The national postal operator in Lithuania will use the 8,300 square metre facility with its parcel service subsidiary Baltic Post.
The new facility is expected to increase the Post’s capacity for handling mail and parcels by 10 times, with the number of loading docks also increasing 10-fold, including a 15-fold increase in docking positions for domestic courier transport.
It will process items sent through both post offices and couriers. Couriers will be able to process more than 7,000 items an hour, compared to the current 450, the firm said.
Lina Minderienė, the Lithuania Post chief executive, said the new facility is being built in Lithuania’s second-largest city, Kaunas, since it offers a more central location in the Baltic Republic than the more south-easterly Vilnius.
She said: “This logistics centre will make an essential change to the whole collection and distribution logistics chain as the office of exchange will move from Vilnius to Kaunas. With the logistics centre located in the geographical centre of Lithuania, we can diminish the number of kilometres covered and, what is very important, set later collection times.”
Lithuania Post is leasing the premises for the new facility, and will invest LTL 600,000 (EUR 173,772) in new equipment.
The company said it is planning to move its mail sorting operations from Vilnius to Kaunas in the spring of 2015.
