by Walther Ploos van Amstel
CTP, a top-five industrial property developer in Europe, announced the acquisition of the Amsterdam Logistic Cityhub (ALC) with a net transaction value of €307 million for 100% of the shares of this single asset. The XXL city hub in the Western Docklands of Amsterdam is currently being constructed. Upon completion (end of 2022), will comprise …
Rising labor costs and the need to reduce social logistics cost is increasingly prominent in China. Profit margins in the logistics industry are not very high. Introducing autonomous delivery will improve the structure of the industry and margins in the long run. JD presents ‘lessons learned’ on the why, how, and when of autonomous delivery …
Meal kit subscription business HelloFresh has seen sales soar in the first six months of 2021, despite the end of lockdown. Berlin-based HelloFresh said its sales had risen by almost 80% in the first six months of 2021 to hit € 3 bn. The company delivered over 490 million meals to its 7,6 million customers. …
Investors in the parcel delivery business are cautious. Royal Mail lost 15 percent of its value in one month, Belgian Bpost lost 18 percent. UPS and FedEx losing 7 to 9 percent. With a 5 percent drop in the AEX last week, is Dutch PostNL the next loser? Dutch PostNL sent 11 percent more parcels …
LeasePlan and Arrival sign partnership to bring revolutionary electric vans to European cities. LeasePlan, one of the world’s leading Car-as-a-Service companies, and Arrival, the global technology company creating electric vehicles (EVs) with its unique technologies, announced that LeasePlan will be the preferred operational leasing partner for Arrival electric vans. The partnership is based on an …
Picnic is an online, mobile, and app-only supermarket providing affordable grocery shopping with free delivery in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Picnic respects their customers’ time and aims to provide a service reflecting that. They guarantee to deliver groceries during a one-hour delivery window selected by the customer between one day and one week ahead. …
Uber’s delivery business is now bigger than its ride hailing business. Uber on Wednesday reported widening losses even as trips and deliveries grew as driver incentives hit revenue. Uber said riders returned to its platform in greater numbers in July and it expects the trend to continue in the coming months, together with strong growth …
Amazon doubled down on its commitment to expand supply chain capacity on its latest earnings call. In 2020, Amazon’s capital expenditures were more than three times greater than those of Walmart. Retaildive reports about it. In 2020, Amazon upped its spending as it works to stand up more delivery stations and fulfillment centers. Amazon fulfillment …
Hyperloop scale-up Hardt and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences explored how hyperloop cargo solutions (Cargoloop) can help sustainably and efficiently meet surging demand for e-commerce shipments. A new vision paper titled ‘Hyperloop for E-commerce – Sustainable, on-demand and high-speed e-commerce fulfillment enabled by Cargoloop’ was published, as a result of joined concept development and E-commerce …
Delivery companies such as Gorillas, Getir, and Zapp promise to deliver groceries within 10 minutes even 24 hours a day. In recent months, these companies have hired hundreds of new couriers to deliver on the promise of fast hyperlocal delivery in Amsterdam. The popularity of these fast shopping services is growing, but so are the …