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Double-digit growth rates and major expansion of the network – new depot opens in Klaipeda

Aschaffenburg / Klaipeda, 23. 06. 2008 – In 2007 DPD increased the number of shipments the parcel and express service provider transported to the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia by 40 per cent to around ten million. In doing so the subsidiary of the French GeoPost Group expanded its CEP market share in the Baltics from 23 to 28 per cent. In domestic shipping within the Baltic States the three companies DPD Latvija, DPD Lietuva and DPD Eesti have a market share of as much as 46 per cent. "DPD has tripled its parcel volumes in the Baltic region since 2004," confirms Arnold Schroven, CEO of the international DPD organisation.

In order to cope with this healthy growth in volumes DPD opened a further parcel distribution centre in western Lithuania as recently as May of this year. The depot is located in the free-trade zone of the port of Klaipeda and is intended specifically to handle the rising volumes of international shipments which arrive here by sea and by rail from all around the world. The reason for this is that logistically Klaipeda has a dual function: on the one hand it is Lithuania's only commercial port, and secondly it has an important rail link which leads via Vilnius, Minsk and Kiev to the Ukrainian port of Odessa (a distance of 1734 km covered in 55 hours). In addition it links up with an important trans-European road corridor (IXB) which connects the countries around the Baltic with the Black sea region. The significance of Odessa and its hinterland connections is increasing because maritime links with Turkey and other countries in Central Asia have expanded dramatically since the political opening up of the Russian Federation.

"DPD is integrating itself more and more into global logistics chains," explains Mr Schroven. "For example at the new DPD sorting centre in Klaipeda we ensure that parcels which arrive by container from Asia are sorted as fast as possible and then distributed throughout the entire Baltic region." The DPD sorting centre in Klaipeda has a total of 46 loading bays and its current capacity is 2,000 parcels an hour, which can however be expanded substantially.

Overall DPD has established a rapidly growing network in the Baltics, based on an operational infrastructure featuring three hubs, 29 depots and a fleet of 540 vehicles. Within the three countries DPD has a workforce of 750 employees backed up by self-employed transport operators. In Riga the company opened the largest sorting centre of the whole Baltic region only last year, with a sorting capacity of 6,000 parcels an hour.