DPD expands in Central Europe with €20m Bratislava depot

DPD has expanded capacity in Central Europe significantly with the opening of a new €20 million depot in Bratislava, its biggest-ever investment in Slovakia.

The new 7,000sqm warehouse is located on a 28,000sqm plot of land in the Pharos area, close to Bratislava Airport. The new depot will use the most modern sorting technologies to enable sorting capacity of nearly 10,000 parcels per hour, and is already prepared to deliver consignments by electric vehicles.

"This is DPD's largest investment to date in Slovakia. Demand for courier services is growing rapidly and thanks to cutting-edge technologies and higher capacity we can now work more efficiently and provide even better support to our customers," said Peter Pavuk, general director of DPD in Slovakia.

"This investment will allow us to process a larger number of the consignments transported not only to the domestic market, but also abroad. For our customers in Slovakia, this means that they can use faster transport times and deliver goods to their foreign customers more efficiently,” he explained.

Regional sorting centre

The new premises will serve as a delivery depot for the area of Bratislava, but also as a regional sorting centre for the whole of Slovakia. Thanks to modern technologies and a larger number of gates, it will fully replace and supplement the capacities of the original DPD branch in Bratislava.

In the facility, the automatic parcel sorting system can work completely without the intervention of employees as it scans, weighs and measures each parcel. The system will also prepare photo documentation for the consignment.

The building also includes 99 doors for courier vans, 12 for trucks and 28 for container transport. Overall, the new DPD branch will be able to process up to almost 10,000 parcels per hour.

Electric vehicles

The new premises also meet the strict standards for emission-free delivery to which DPD has committed itself. The Bratislava depot will have as many as 51 charging stations for courier vehicles and two more for the company's customers.

DPD aims to deliver consignments in Bratislava exclusively using electric vehicles by 2025.