PST CLC Mitsui-Soko has significantly expanded its activities in Moravia. Together with the opening of multi-user warehouses in Mošnov and Pohořelice, it last year began to provide transport within the first and last mile at the combined transport container terminal in Brno. PST CLC Mitsui-Soko has until now been providing transport services in Brno through contracted carriers, but from April it will also start providing these transports with its own vehicles.
Container shipments are replicating the global market, with a decline in the volumes of these shipments in 2022. This was mainly due to the situation in China, where there was a reduction in activity due to Covid measures, followed by the Chinese New Year celebrations, when factories there were shut down for about two weeks. But now the original volume is gradually being restored. However, the return to the previous state is gradual.
PST CLC Mitsui-Soko currently primarily delivers containers from Brno towards Pardubice, where it has an important client. “We provide container transport from and to the terminal in Brno. The terminal in Brno, which connects rail and road transport, is operated by ČD Cargo. In addition to this company, the Austrian railway operator Rail Cargo also operates there,” says Jan Bláha, director of transport at PST CLC Mitsui-Soko.
He added that two shipping companies, namely the Maersk and Cosco Shipping Lines, are presently directing their volumes to the Brno terminal, for which PST CLC Mitsui-Soko provides deliveries and other services, such as customs services. “Today, the trend is for shippers to arrange the transport of the container from the loading point to the final destination, to the customer’s door. In this respect we are a partner of the shipowners,” says Jan Bláha.
Petr Haman, Key Account Manager of PST CLC Mitsui-Soko, adds that the company provides similar services as in Brno in other Czech combined transport terminals, namely in Kolín, Pardubice, Mělník, Lovosice and Ostrava.
