“We won the project from the Austrian Post for the Central and Eastern European countries and are now in talks for Austria itself. We have a contract to deliver 1,256 lockers at first and there will be 6,000 in all,
 says Lucian Ulmanu, chief executive officer of ARKA Smart Parcel Lockers.

ARKA’s largest customer in Romania is FAN Courier, which uses the FAN Boxes made by the company, followed by Cargus, which uses the sorting and weighing system.

The company behind ARKA Smart Parcel Lockers, ARKA REC SRL, posted RON21.2 million revenue in 2023, a decline of 35% and RON1.5 million profit, public data show. It had 64 employees on average last year, over 600% more than in 2022.

ARKA Smart Parcel Lockers was established in Brasov 16 years ago. It now has two factories.

(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)