Tag: Czech Republic

Teplice becomes next city in DHL and PPL's new terminal and distribution network

Posted by | Sep 13, 2007 | |

DHL has opened another major distribution terminal in the Czech Republic with its partner PPL CZ, this time in Krupka near Teplice. The centre, which joins terminals in Plzen and Ceské Budejovice, will act as a hub for the distribution of shipments in the Ústí nad Labem and Liberec regions and parts of Central Bohemia. The construction of terminals forms part of a large project to integrate the DHL and PPL CZ terminal and distribution networks in the Czech Republic. The project will cost almost one billion Czech crowns.

The integration comes in response to ever growing shipment volumes and the need to constantly raise customer service standards. The goal is to create a network of ten main terminals over the coming three years. These terminals will form the backbone of a modern distribution system.

“The opening of the Teplice terminal will significantly help us to expand our capacity and allow us to raise service standards across all our products. Given the hub’s strategic position we also plan to leverage its great location and upgrade our transport links not only with our western neighbours, but worldwide, as DHL is building a new intercontinental hub in Leipzig, Germany,” adds Radek Odstrcil, DHL Express Operations Manager for the Czech Republic.

More terminals are to open in future years in Hradec Králové, Ostrava, Olomouc and Prague. DHL and PPL CZ expect the project to boost their competitiveness by streamlining shipment distribution. The range of products and services offered to customers will expand, and facilities will be modernised.

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Mediaservis: leading challenger to Czech Post

Posted by | Aug 27, 2007 | |

With the postal service market set to open up, Mediaservis is positioning itself to wrap up a bigger chunk of the mail delivery market. And more than just junk mail is at stake.

The Czech postal services market is the most open and developed within the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region, yet rivals of traditional public operators are awaiting full liberalization of the European Union postal market, says Jaroslav Aujezdský, CEO of Mediaservis, an alternative competitor to domestic state-run post office Èeská pošta (ÈP).

Mediaservis is closely monitoring the liberalization process and will be prepared to meet all the conditions when the market is fully liberalized, and be able to provide delivery of mail under 50 grams, or under Kè 18 (EUR 0.65) in the Czech Republic, Aujezdský said.

Currently, Mediaservis has about a 20 percent market share of approximately 1 billion addressed mail items including letters, direct mail, newspapers and magazines sent every year. “We want to enter the segment of delivery of letters under 50 grams, which represents about 65 percent of all the letters that we cannot deliver at the moment although we are capable of doing it,” Aujezdský said. The 65 percent represents mainly the business-to-business (B2B) and the business-to-customer (B2C) market. Some 90 percent of European mail is from businesses, and this is where most new rivals are likely to target new lower-priced services, according to the European
Commission (EC).

Mediaservis was established in 1999 with the aim of providing a morning delivery service mainly for publishing houses. At that time the only operator ÈP offered late morning delivery of periodicals on weekdays, and no service on Saturdays.

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Czech state prepares major state owned companies for sale – report

Posted by | Aug 20, 2007 | |

The Czech government is preparing the remaining major state-owned companies for privatization but may keep a controlling stake in some of them, the weekly Euro reported today.

The Czech post office services provider Ceska Posta will likely be divided into several units, some of which will be up for grabs in a privatization, while others will remain under state control, the weekly said, without citing sources.

Prague airport, Letiste Praha, whose value is estimated at 100 bln crowns, may be split between the Prague municipality, which will acquire a 34 pct stake, and the finance ministry, which will keep the rest.

However, the 66 pct stake should later be sold as the Czech transportation ministry may require half of the proceeds for the state fund of transportation infrastructure, Euro reports, citing unnamed sources.

Brewery Budejovicky Budvar may offer its shares in an initial public offering, after it is transformed into a joint stock company, according to the minister of agriculture Petr Gandalovic.

1 GBP = 40.7925 CZK

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FedEx targets double-digit growth in Central and Eastern Europe

Posted by | Aug 7, 2007 | |

FedEx Express is targeting double-digit growth in Germany and the rest of its Central and Eastern Europe region, and does not exclude further acquisitions to achieve its goals, senior executives told CEP-Research. The integrator will continue to focus on international air express and does not plan to enter the German domestic market, however.

“We are on an expansion path. We want to be the preferred partner for international time-definite shipments,” said Michael Mühlberger, FedEx Express Vice President Operations Central and Eastern Europe, in an interview. He was speaking after the press conference to announce the transfer of FedEx’s Central and Eastern Europe hub from Frankfurt to Cologne in 2010.

FedEx had invested strongly in Eastern Europe in recent years, setting up own organisations in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary and launching own flights to the three countries, he noted. In other countries, it is represented by Global Service Partners (GSP).

In future, FedEx wanted stronger links with these partners. “For those partners where we are convinced about their quality, we want to bind them with strong contracts or through acquisitions,” Mühlberger said. Following the recent acquisition of Hungarian partner Flying Cargo, however, no other acquisitions were currently pending, he stressed.

FedEx was seeing a trend for some industries that had set up production in countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic to respond to rising cost levels there by moving further east towards cheaper countries such as Romania, he noted.

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DHL Czech Republic building a new network of terminals

Posted by | Jul 23, 2007 | |

DHL Express (Czech Republic) is building a new network of terminals throughout the country to meet the growing demand for freight and logistic services and to optimize its logistics system.

The completion of the CZK 1 billion (EUR 35.4 million) project creating a network of eight main terminals – by the end of 2009, is expected to save the company between 10 and 15 percent in costs, said Jiøí Stojar, the company’s managing director. In addition, because of improved interconnections, the company anticipates higher revenues and bigger market share. In the segment of packages, DHL Express expects to grow its current share from 25 percent to 30-32 percent; and in products above 31.5 kilograms from 8 to about 19 percent, and it hopes to at least maintain its 46 percent share in express air delivery services, Stojar said.

This year DHL Express CR (together with DHL Freight, which is part of the firm) revenues are expected to reach EUR 185 million, about 15 percent growth compared to 2006.

The project, which will create the backbone of an updated distribution system, is almost half-completed with existing terminals in Brno, South Moravia, Èeské Budìjovice, South Bohemia, and Plzeò, West Bohemia. The Teplice, North Bohemia-based terminal, which is under construction, will be completed by the end of August, Stojar said, adding that the construction of a transshipment station in Hradec Králové, East Bohemia, has been delayed and the firm plans to finish it in the second quarter of next year. In 2008 the Prague and Olomouc, Central Moravia, terminals are scheduled to be built. The last two terminals will be built in 2009 in Ostrava, North Moravia, and another in the capital, Stojar said.

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