Logistics

Efficient logistics infrastructure guarantees energy safety and constitutes the basis of competitiveness on the fuel market. To maximise efficiency and fluency of flow and storage of raw materials, ORLEN Group uses the infrastructure consisting of: fuel terminals, land and offshore transshipment facilities, a network of industrial raw material and product pipelines as well as road and rail transport.

The most important companies operating in the area of logistics include: ORLEN Koltrans, ORLEN Transport (Poland), Unipetrol Doprava i Unipetrol Petrotrans (Czech Republic).

In 2010 – in accordance with adopted assumptions – the Company implemented important system solutions in the area of logistics, which brought expected increase of cost efficiency. Last year the most important activities in this area were:

• completion of the last stage of restructuring of logistics area – significant optimisation of employment and increased automation of processes at fuel terminals,
• completion of construction of 105 km-long fuel pipeline Ostrów Wielkopolski – Wrocław,
• adjustment of mandatory reserves to assumptions of new legal regulations in the scope of volume and structure of reserves,
• completion of the “Self-service” project aimed at higher automation of trade operations service at fuel terminals,
• initiation of implementation of the IT system for planning of fuel supplies to the fuel station aimed at improving performance indicators of road logistics.