Postal and Logistics Center in Belgrade starts operating

BELGRADE - Posta Srbije, Serbia's national postal service, opened in Belgrade Thursday a regional postal and logistics center that allows making a full transition to automated sorting and processing of mail and parcels, and the opening ceremony was attended by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and director of the public enterprise Milan Krkobabic.

Vucic said at the ceremony that the logistics center, situated in Belgrade's neighborhood of Zemun, was a most advanced system such as existed in Germany and the most developed parts of the world.

Vucic told the workers of Posta Srbije that the enterprise, just like all public enterprises, would have to put more money into the country's budget in the future.

Due to the difficult economic situation, the public enterprise will have to put 70 percent of its revenues into the budget, he said.

He asked the employees of Posta Srbije to be patient and wait for two more years and then say if Serbia was on the right track and if things had improved for the better.

"Mastering new technologies should help us find ways to employ more people and beat competition," Vucic said, stressing that difficult times were ahead for Serbia.

Krkobabic said that the opening of the center was a decade-long dream of Posta Srbije workers coming true, and the technology at the center was an example of one of the most advanced postal systems in the world.

The Posta Srbije director said that the whole country was about to undergo inevitable fundamental reforms and the national post office would only employ those workers who had accepted "bearing the responsibility to help Posta make more profit and become a regional leader."

He said that the enterprise had a...