The profit of Latvijas pasta halved last year, its turnover has increased – Sectors – Financenet

The turnover of "Latvijas pasta" increased by 20.6% – from 62.67 million euros in 2016 to 75.59 million euros. last year

In turn, the profit of the company rose from 3.62 million euros in 2016 to

Gundega Vārpa, a spokeswoman for Latvijas Pasts, pointed out that 39; in 2017 the company had the most historical business figure, provided by the activities implemented by Latvijas Pasts to promote the long-term development of the company by actively working to digitize services. the attraction of loads, as well as the creation of new products and additional services, for example by providing transit services for Asian shipments to third countries. Last year, the company is engaged in a transit project in cooperation with Cainiao logistics company of the Chinese trading platform Alibaba

The most significant segments of services, which have seen the strongest growth in 2017, are the postal parcels. euros, postal payment services – from 38.1% or more millions of euros, postal mail – from 2.1% or 600 000 euros

Last year, 67 post offices put in place a flow management system also the remote application for postal services in departments using the mobile application "Latvijas pasta". This project will continue in 2018 with the expected increase in the number of these units in 86 post offices.

"Latvijas pasts" is the only postal operator in the country, providing postal services every day throughout the country. In May, the replacement of a fleet of outdated cargo vans began. For a more efficient delivery of universal postal and express mail, "Latvijas pasts" has acquired 41 more economical and environmentally friendly vans during the period under review for operational leasing, which reduces maintenance costs. fleet.

By implementing the transfer of services in the digital environment and by speeding up the possibility of sending mail, "Latvijas pasts" sends since the end of November 2017 calls to the postal service for the purpose. sending the customer's phone number. On average, approximately 250,000 mobile SMS messages are sent to customers, and their number is growing. As of the end of the reference period, in July 2018, "Latvijas pasts" started to send e-invitations to receive registered mail if the customer has accepted this service and if the mobile phone number of the customer is indicated on the respective shipments. By modernizing the functionality of the postal billing system, the company has implemented several system improvements: the mobile SMS service has been introduced to record the balance of customer accounts, while the payment terms for invoices are capped at one business day. . Since the introduction of mobile SMS service, Latvijas pasts has sent about 50,000 SMS per month.

The implementation of the transit project launched at the end of 2017 at Latvijas Pasts continues and continues in 2018, with new destinations and new services. to offer customers. As part of the transit transport project, third country shipments are mainly based on shipments from the Alibaba China Trading Platform. Until now, "Latvijas Pasts" has served more than 20 cargoes for transit flights of which Boeing 747 is the largest aircraft.

Several projects have already been put in place since the end of the reporting period to provide more efficient and effective services. In creation. To ensure its long-term competitiveness and diversification, the Latvijas pasts will provide 1300 postal operators in 2018, allowing online registration of mobile devices in order to capture the receipt of a registered shipment and the client's signature, and to control the supply circuits and their efficiency

In 2018, "Latvijas pasts" continues to develop its main activities paying particular attention to the improvement of the profitability and the quality , improving the organization of work, improving the quality of work, automating processes and digitizing

VAS "Latvijas pasts" provides postal services throughout the territory of Latvia, now more than 600 postal services.

Latvijas pasts is a state enterprise that has about 4,000 employees