Bruce Barnard, Special Correspondent | Nov 05, 2012 10:16AM EST
French parcel and express group DPD has opened a new sorting center in Poland, which it claims is the largest in Central and Eastern Europe.
DPD, a subsidiary of France’s state mail operator La Poste, invested 32 million euros ($42 million) in the facility in Strykow, near Lodz, which has an about 44,290 square-foot warehouse, two sorting machines that can handle 35,000 items per hour, 300 vehicles and 4,000 tons of cargo per night.
The sorting center, one of the largest hubs in PDP’s pan-European network, will employ 430 people when it is fully operational.
The Strykow facility “will change the quality standard of the courier industry in the Polish market and contribute to the economic development of the region at the same time,” DPD said.
