China Post Group and Pošta Slovenije (Slovenia Post) have signed a mail and parcel logistics cooperation agreement to improve services and strengthen economic exchange between the two countries.
Liu Aili, chairman of China Post Group, and Pošta Slovenije’s general manager, Marko Cegnar, signed the agreement in Beijing following a discussion on the sidelines of the Slovenian-Chinese Business Council in Ljubljana at the end of January.
“We are delighted that China Post has recognized Pošta Slovenije as being a reliable and efficient postal operator, and one that ensures high standards of quality in the delivery of letters and parcels,” Cegnar commented. “At the same time, Slovenia’s favorable geostrategic position at the meeting point of several important European transport corridors means that the Pošta Slovenije Group is able to offer enhanced cooperation in the field of logistics as well.”
The rapid rise of Chinese online stores and platforms in the last few years has brought an increasing number of opportunities in the field of parcel logistics, which Pošta Slovenije Group said is its most important business segment. Consignments coming from China to Slovenia have, recently, accounted for the one of the highest shares in overall parcel operations, with trends showing that numbers will only increase in future.
The increase in the volume of delivery of Chinese e-commerce parcels, in tandem with the new agreement signed by the two postal operators, opens up the possibility of further enhanced cooperation in other business areas in the months and years to come, according to Pošta Slovenije.