UPS opens new parcel facility in Poland
UPS has announced the opening of a new package facility in Mysłowice, Poland.
“Poland is an important market for UPS and in the first quarter of this year we grew our export volume by more than 20%,” said Pavel Adamovsky, country manager, UPS Poland. “This investment demonstrates our long-standing commitment to helping our customers in Poland grow and connect to markets all over the world.”
The new 11,000 square metre package centre in Mysłowice is equipped with a conveyor belt system that can sort up to 6,000 packages per hour. The building will also have parking positions for 170 package cars. Over 100 people will work in the building, which will also include a new customer call center.
The new Mysłowice operation is more than triple the size of the facility it replaces: a 3,180 square metre package centre that was located in Katowice.
Mysłowice was selected as the location for this new facility by UPS because of its proximity to many business distribution centres and also the Katowice airport, where UPS has invested in additional air cargo capacity. Katowice is connected to UPS’s European air hub in Cologne by a 737-300 jet operated by ASL Airlines. This aircraft provides UPS a 25% increase in cargo capacity over the two daily turboprop aircraft it replaced.
“UPS has embarked on a $2 billion investment program in Europe,” said Daniel Carrera, President, UPS East Europe. “We’re now faster from Poland to the rest of Europe and we offer earlier guaranteed Express deliveries across Poland.”
In November 2016, UPS announced an expansion of Express services to 25,000 postal codes across Poland, offering earlier time-definite deliveries.
UPS opened a $20m package sorting facility in Stryków and a business services center in Łódź in September 2015.
