Boeing is at it again. Last year in June, I wrote about a system Boeing patented for charging drones midair. This time they have patented a revolutionary way to transport regular 40 feet shipping containers via aeroplane. Yes, you have read that right: regular...
Innovation
Missed Deliveries? They’re History!
Just last month, Dutch logistics startup Sesam Solutions launched the Parcer: a safe way to receive packages and send them. When you are not there. Not there at all! Last week I sat down with Sesam Solutions' CEO Hans van Nikkelen Kuijper to talk about their...
Drones vs. Robots. The Delivery War is on!
There's someone at the door with a delivery, but soon, that will change, at least that is what two Skype co-founders, Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis, envision with their startup Starship. And most of you probably expect that they want you to look up for your delivery,...
Safer Roads Through Thirsty Concrete, Yes, Thirsty Concrete
Concrete that absorbs a whopping 600 litres of water per square meter per minute! You have to see it to believe it. Luckily Tarmac, the company that has invented this permeable concrete system called Topmix Permeable, has made a video. Through the voids in the...
Logistics, Drones, and Music Festivals: The Friend Finder
I recently came across a marketing stunt by Pepsi called "Friend Finder, " which combines two of my biggest passions. Music and Logistics. I don't have to explain the second one. You are here. It is obvious. The first one I have not talked about much here yet, but...
Carpooling, Yes, Carpooling for Goods: Sjipit
I can hear most of my non-Dutch readers think: Sji-what?? Sjipit. It's Ship It written phonetically in Dutch. It may be the first time you hear about it, so let me start with how I first heard about it. I love LinkedIn and browse my timeline multiple times a day....
The Uberization of Logistics Continues: e-Commerce Deliveries
In January, I wrote about Uber's first steps in the Logistics arena with its launch of UberCARGO in Hong Kong. According to a recent article on re/code, Uber will launch a new service this fall, for which the name is not known yet. Uber is moving into...
Innovation in Road Safety: The Samsung Safety Truck
Road Safety. An important theme for anybody in any country, but in some countries definitely more than others. Samsung has launched a safety initiative to solve one of the (literally) biggest safety hazards on the road: the Truck. Let me start by saying that the...
Why Not Charge Your Drone Midair, or: What Boeing Just Patented
The last time I wrote about a patent, it was one by Amazon, and it described what I call a Ship-to Person model. Currently, all shipments go to an address, which will be an obsolete process in the future. With logistics operations becoming more agile and flexible, it...
Robotics, e-Commerce Giants, and Infographics
Ok. I've found it a bigger challenge to bring you a weekly round-up of the news than I thought it would be when I started doing these. I know the last one was in Week 13, and now we're in Week 21 already. I'm going to promise you my best effort and will publish these...
The First Ship-to Person Delivery System Has Just Been Patented. Bring It To Me!
Ship-to-Person? Yes! Ship-to Person! Ship-to Address is so last century. And amazon has just patented a drone-enabled ship-to person delivery method. I first wrote about ship-to person replacing the ship-to address in my post Location Based Logistics - Why Forecast...
