Citilink begins issue of orders through the points DPD Pickup

2020: Issue of orders through the points DPD Pickup

On July 2, 2020 Citilink announced cooperation with the non-state operator of DPD in Russia and the beginning of issue of orders through the points DPD Pickup. Connection of points of the logistic partner will allow to expand geography of service and to offer buyers the choice of convenient locations. In plans of the companies for the closest 2 years of cooperation connection more than 650 points of DPD Pickup.

Thanks to partnership development at the first stage Citilink will expand quantity of the points available to obtaining orders in million-strong cities – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar. On the following – will provide presence in other regions of the country, including the Republic of Ingushetia, the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Dagestan, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic and other subjects of the Russian Federation. After project completion the total quantity of the points available to obtaining orders of the company, through the whole country will exceed 1,200.

Thanks to convenience and profitability shipment at own expense – one of the most popular methods of obtaining Internet orders, especially in regions. The most part of orders fell to its share for last financial year in the company, – Anton Orlov, the director of management of promotion of integration and development of services Citilink shared. – Therefore we made the decision to strengthen presence and to leave to other regions, including at the expense of model of connection of the checked logistic partners with work experience in the direction.

According to our forecasts, the shipment at own expense share in the e-commerce market will continue to grow. In 2019 in B2C segment in our company it increased twice (in comparison with 2018), – Irina Zilberberg, the head of department of Pickup DPD network in Russia comments. – PVZ Pickup are present even at the most remote localities. It allows us to be the reliable partner and to provide a necessary geographical covering.

Earlier (fall of 2018) the companies announced the beginning of cooperation within issue of orders of partners of DPD in Russia through shops and points of issue Citilink. Since project launch through points of network more than 500,000 shipments of logistic operator were issued.