DPD Russia increased its parcel shipment volumes by 49% to 14 million parcels last year and grew its revenues from B2C business by 43% compared to 2013.
The company did not release details of its overall revenues, however.
Last year, DPD invested around RUB 200 million (€3.3 million) in its development in Russia, above all in software, automation of operational processes and infrastructure expansion. For the years 2015-2019, it plans to invest a further RUB 1 billion (€16.6 million) in these areas and also to expand its network of partner service points and parcel terminals.
At the end of 2014, DPD launched a new automated sorting system in St. Petersburg thus doubling the sorting capacity at the terminal to 10,000 parcels per day as the parcel volume growth in the North-West region amounted to 42% in 2014 alone. This year, the company plans to equip the central terminals in Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod with the new sorting lines as well.
“Our company is planning to rent a terminal with a sorting system that has the capacity to process 3,000 parcels per hour,” Andrey Mayorov, DPD Russia General Director, told journalists at a press conference in Moscow. “At the end of 2015 or in the beginning of 2016, we will start the construction of our own terminal with a sorting system that has the capacity to process 200,000 parcels a day.”
Last year, DPD opened 14 new offices in Izhevsk, Chita, Orel, Nizhnevartovsk, Simferopol, Rybinsk, Kyzyl, Novorossiysk, Serpukhov, Novosibirsk, Sevastopol, Makhachkala, Elista and Voronezh increasing its branch network in Russia to 144 in total.
In 2014, the company also set up a new route for export products from Russian internet shops to Kazakhstan, with 10,000 parcels being transported via this route last year. The volumes are expected to increase tenfold this year.
Meanwhile, more than 100 foreign online stores (mainly from the USA and the UK) use DPD to deliver orders to their customers in Russia. Therefore, DPD was one of the first companies in Russia to start the remote payment of customs duties for individuals, which is a new service in the country.
As part of further developing its international delivery services, the company plans to expand the DPD MAX service. This offers transport of palletised goods from 15 European countries to Russia and DPD plans to add economical deliveries from China in the near future.
Last year, DPD launched the Predict service in Russia, which is already available in many other countries. This year, the company plans to implement new services for internet shops.
“Taking DPD in Russia and the CIS countries together, the total shipment volumes growth amounted to 39% in 2014, with more than 16.5 million parcels sent,” Sergey Kruglov, DPD Russia president, concluded. “As part of GeoPost, our company has set the strategic goal of becoming the reference provider for delivery services in the segment of B2C, while continuing further growing in the segment of B2B as well.”
