Logistics hub at the Solidarity port. Close cooperation of CPK and Poczta Polska
Poczta Polska plans to create a transhipment center on the Solidarity port. CPK airport and rail investments will help ensure high quality services provided by the post office and allow optimal use of the potential of the developing e-commerce market. Poczta Polska and CPK have signed a cooperation agreement today.
Currently, Poczta Polska has a post office and a transhipment point at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, in which it serves air parcels in international traffic. Bearing in mind the dynamic development of the KEP industry (courier, express and parcel shipments), e-commerce (internet trade) and the broadly understood logistics industry, Poczta Polska plans to create a logistics hub on the Solidarity port of Solidarity to service goods in national and foreign traffic.
- This is good news for anyone who buys or sells goods on the Internet. The accurately planned infrastructure, taking into account the experience of logistics operators, will mean not only comfortable travels, but also fast and safe transport of goods. This is why the construction of CPK is so important in cooperation with Poczta Polska - says Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Marcin Horała, Government Plenipotentiary for CPK.
- Construction of CPK is one of the most important infrastructure projects in our country and it cannot miss the national postal operator. Poczta Polska is not only letter shipments, but also Service of a dynamically growing e-commerce and logistics market. We are constantly working intensively on the expansion and improvement of our logistics network so that it can meet the market requirements and customer expectations - says Tomasz Zdzikot, president of Poczta Polska. - Mail has been a communication bloodstream for the state and citizens for centuries. Common design of infrastructure by Poczta Polska and CPK will allow you to improve the logistics of shipments - he adds.
CPK has undertaken to take into account the needs of mail during planning, design and implementation of airport and rail investments, as well as coordination of road projects.
-Poczta Polska as the largest logistics operator in Central and Eastern Europe is a key partner for us during the construction of the Solidarity port. The purpose of the cooperation agreement signed today is to coordinate work and joint investments. Establishing close cooperation already at the stage of planning the airport and new high -speed railway lines will allow you to develop optimal solutions. Together we will achieve more, using the scale effect - says Mikołaj Wild, president of CPK.
The cooperation agreement assumes, among others Determining priorities when planning CPK investments. It also provides support from Poczta Polska in preparing project documentation, consulting proposals for necessary legal acts and the development of the area of innovation and new technologies at the interface between the Polish Post and CPK Poczta.
-Poczta Polska is currently rebuilding its logistics network due to the intensive development of e-commerce. We want to go quickly forward, using, among others infrastructure potential CPK. The new, better transhipment infrastructure will translate into an increase in the efficiency of shipments that come to Poland from abroad, as well as those that Poles, including Polish e-stores, send to other countries -says Krzysztof Falkowski, vice president of Poczta Polska.
This is another cooperation agreement signed by CPK. In March last year, CPK and the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) concluded an agreement on investment coordination, including expanding the A2 motorway between Łódź and Warsaw and construction of the Warsaw Agglomeration bypass. Two months later, representatives of Poland and Great Britain signed an agreement, under which the British air and rail sector offered know-how in the planning, design and construction of the Solidarity port and 1800 km of high speeds.
In September last year, CPK signed an agreement with the Polish Energy Group, which stipulates that in the region of the Solidarity port there will be a new combined power plant in accordance with the latest environmental requirements. On the basis of signed contracts, CPK also cooperates, among others with the State Geological Institute (PIG) in the field of engineering geology, hydrogeology and substrate research.