KYIV. July 31 (Interfax-Ukraine) –Nova Poshta company had over 32 million of deliveries in January-June 2015, which is 25% up year-over-year.
“Parcels had a lion’s share of the total number of deliveries. Their number grew by 22%. Document mailing grew by 57% over the period,” the company’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
McDonald’s, Obolon, DTEK, Interpipe, Coca Cola, Siemens, MTS, Ukrtelecom and other companies became new clients in H1 2015.
The company opened 715 new depots in H1 2015, including automatic parcel terminals, all over Ukraine and increased its network to 2,128 terminals.
“Nova Poshta has revised hours of operations for its branches to be more convenient for clients. From June some of them are ready to service visitors on Sundays in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Odesa and Lviv,” the press service said.
The company placed its depots within walking distance from houses and offices and at shopping centers and supermarkets.
The company’s truck fleet has been expanded by 19.5% since early 2015, to 2,564 trucks.
Over the reporting period, Nova Poshta launched three terminals with a gross area of almost 10,000 square meters in Kremenchuk, Odesa and Krasnoarmiysk, bringing their total number to 36. Construction work is underway in Uzhgorod, Rivne and Chernivtsi.
“In H1 2015 Nova Poshta expanded the joint consumer credit program with CreditMarket at its branches to regional centers. Now clients are not to go to a bank to buy something. CreditMarket stations are working in 20 depots of Nova Poshta and the company plans to open 30 more stations in the near future,” the company said.
In H1 2015 the company launched special local tariffs for business thanks to which corporate clients could deliver parcels and mail within a city or town and their suburbs at the good price.
“After the successful launch in Kyiv, geography of the Local tariff has been expanded to Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and their suburbs. The local tariffs are in effect in 99 towns of Ukraine. Today, over 25,000 clients used local tariff and they made over 300,000 deliveries,” the press service said.
Nova Poshta launched the business documents door-to-door delivery service. Over 4,000 clients, among which are banks, insurance companies and industrial companies, used the service. The number of deliveries exceeded 65,000.
Under the Humanitarian Mail of Ukraine program Nova Poshta carried 4,700 tonnes of aid for servicemen, displaced persons and residents of suffered towns.
“The results of the first half of the year show that despite the difficult situation in the country we continue developing. People get used to send parcels and receive goods from online shops. Despite the decline in the conventional online trade segment, we see a rise in the number of deals on the online sites between individuals, which positively influences the express delivery services,” the press service said, citing the founder of the company Viacheslav Klimov.
