New hi-tech sorting centre aims to improve post office efficiency

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Averoff Neophytou yesterday attended the opening of the new hi-tech postal sorting centre in Latsia yesterday.

The new centre houses automatic postal sorting machinery and is to service the whole island. The minister said yesterday it had been constructed in record time.

The centre has been built by Harilaos Apostolides and Sia Ltd, which undertook the project in February last year and was responsible for finding the site, drawing up plans, constructing the building and finding the finance.

“For the complete utilization of space and to meet the many needs of the government, the basement of the centre is also to be used by the Ministry of Education for storage,” Neophytou added.

The first stage of the centre was completed last October, after which the automatic machinery arrived from Germany, and was installed and tested. The machines will be able to sort up to 35,000 objects per hour.

The new centre, which cost about £5 million, is part of the government’s policy of upgrading and improving the postal services.

Parallel to the completion of the centre, the Council of Ministers has also approved changes in the post office’s institutional framework so that it becomes more flexible in its decision-making mechanisms.

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