Fan Courier is the largest courier service company in Romania and has a fleet of 2,600 vehicles. The problem with the speed is because of the poor infrastructure, which makes transportation difficult.
“There are always traffic jams on the roads in the country. I’ve had trucks stuck for as long as three hours in Valea Oltului (Olt River Valley i.e.) because of such a jam. We did our job, invested in vehicles, hired and trained people, paid our road tax so the government should do its job, build roads, do away with these traffic jams,” Adrian Mihai says.
With only 700 kilometers of highways, 100 of which were already in operation at the fall of the communist regime, Romania is the worst-off of all EU countries in this department.
“We’ve only been given promises about the development of the infrastructure in Romania over the last few years, even though the infrastructure is poor,” said Adrian Mihai, who along with the other two co-owners, Neculai Mihai and Felix Patrascanu, has developed a company that posted 400 million lei (EUR89 million) revenue las year. The three want their company to overshoot the EUR100 million revenue mark in 2016.
“We’ve grown through constant investment. One cannot develop something without investments, as one cannot evolve as a person without investments in education, in professional and personal development.”
Fan Courier’s revenue went up 20% in this first half, the company official says, largely because of electronic commerce and traditional customers. “Demand was on the rise across all sectors.”
Fan Courier’s competitors on the courier service market are Urgent Cargus, DPD Romania, Nemo Express and TNT Romania. Fan Courier had more than 4,500 employees and contract workers last year, which makes it the biggest employer in its sector, according to ZF data.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)