Pony Express, a known universal logistics operator, in a news conference in Chisinau announced its intention to enter the Moldovan market, IPN reports.
The local company Unipost Express, which has an experience of over 15 years, will work in Chisinau under the brand Pony Express. The operator will provide express post and parcel delivery services inside the country and abroad and also services to deliver goods and mail to Moldova. It will also offer integrated logistics solutions for the banking sector, telecommunications, medicine and electronic trade.
As to the main competitive advantages of Pony Express on this business segment, Sergei Serghushev, Pony Express regional development director, said the prices of their services are by 20% on average lower than at the other companies operating on Moldova’s market. “This price offer became possible owing to the company’s international network of branches and an extended network of road and air transport routes,” he stated. At the first stage, the operator intends to occupy at least 10% of the express delivery market of Moldova.
Pony Express transports import-export goods to any point of the world through the own transit terminal in Riga and through direct air transport. In the future, it plans to organize land routes for transfrontier transportation that will significantly reduce the transport costs. This new service for Moldova’s market will reduce the express delivery tariffs by down to 30%.
During the next three years, Pony Express anticipates to earn over US$0.5 million a year from operations made in Moldova. As regards the volume of investments that the company will make in Moldova, Iulian Fedorenko, who will manage the representative office of Pony Express in Chisinau, said everything will depend on the volume of provided services and on sales.
