Tag: Czech Republic

DHL, PPL open reloading centre in Plzen

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

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.

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

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Czech Republic : DHL opens new warehouse near Mladá Boleslav

Posted by | Jun 13, 2007 | |

DHL Exel Supply Chain has opened a new warehouse in Neprevázka in the industrial zone near Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic. The new cross-docking center will cater to the company’s Automotive sector with 13,000 m² of space and 130 newly created jobs.

This new site will service 500 suppliers and coordinate transport to Germany, Belgium, France, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia on a daily basis.

The warehouse includes all the latest technology to operate thirteen gates for unloading and three ramps for back unloading. 180 trucks will operate from this site every day and supply customers in a number of European countries while 50 of the vehicles will service the Czech Republic daily.

DHL Exel Supply Chain’s customers include some of the largest vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers such as VW, Škoda, Audi, SEAT, Renault, Dacia and Faurecia.

DHL Exel Supply Chain’s Automotive sector specializes in logistics services to the car industry. DHL’s extensive network includes a collecting service for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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Der Kurier extends network to Czech Republic

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

The German express operator Der Kurier, a subsidiary of GLS, has extended its overnight network to Czech Republic and halved delivery times to 24 hours.

Its European partner network, which already covers Germany, Benelux, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, UK, France, Italy, Poland and Hungary, has been extended through a new partner, Der Kurier Czech Republic.

Products picked up for example in Amsterdam at 6 p.m are delivered to the final destination in Plzen the next morning before 12:00, the company said. Shipments are transported via its European hub at Neuenstein in central Germany.

Czech Republic is becoming an increasingly important economy with double-digit growth in imports in recent years.

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Czech state-run postal service Ceska posta's pre-tax profit falls 67% y/y to CZK 331 mln in 2006

Posted by | May 29, 2007 | |

Czech state-run postal services provider Ceska posta (CP), slated for privatization, reported a 2006 pre-tax profit of CZK 331 mln, down more than 67% year-on-year (y/y), mainly on expenses linked to its transformation into a joint-stock company, the company announced in a statement Tuesday.

“Extraordinary operations amounting to CZK 666.9 mln reduced CP’s pre-tax profit, but at the same time they helped us correct inaccuracies in past accounting and will enable more precise accounting in the future,” Deputy Finance Director Ladislav Musil said in a press release.

The company’s operating revenues rose 2% y/y.

CP’s transformation from a state public enterprise to a joint-stock company is a first step toward privatization. The process began last year and is scheduled to be completed in 2008.

If the several one-offs linked to this transformation are not counted in, the postal services provider would have generated a profit exceeding CZK 1 bln, CP stated.

CP will probably be privatized through the entry of a strategic partner, CP has previously said.

In 2006, CP delivered 900 mln letters and 26 mln parcels.

It employs 38,000 people and operates 3,400 branches nationwide.

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