The Dutch Start-up space is booming. We have been a seafaring and trading nation for a long time, so it's no wonder that there is a lot of innovation in the logistics space. I recently came across another great addition to the growing group of Dutch logistics...
Last week Belgian Postal Company bpost launched bringr, which they themselves call an innovative, collaborative platform app. Consumers and companies alike can use the smartphone app to find a driver for delivering their goods. These drivers are not working for a...
The past months there has been a lot of buzz about amazon turning into a logistics service provider, by in-sourcing increasingly more supply chain and logistics functions. It seems Google is looking into making moves into a similar direction. They have already...
The biggest frustration for anyone moving freight across any road network in the world is a traffic jam. Well, it's probably a frustration for almost anybody, I guess. Most traffic jams you and I are in can hardly be called a traffic jam if you compare them to some of...
Package delivery. One of the most important events for all companies that rely on parcel carriers to deliver their goods to customers (consumers and businesses). It can't always go right, and it doesn't. Who's fault it is doesn't really matter to the customer. They...
I have said it before, and I will repeat it. I love Infographics. Good ones that are. Emerging Technologies Shaping the Future of Logistics The global logistics market is estimated to be worth about $4 trillion... The global transportation services market is the...
A robot delivering pizza, sure. You're probably wondering what science fiction movie I was watching where I saw that. Well, it was a movie clip, but it is absolute reality. Meet DRU DRU stands for Domino's Robotic Unit. And yes, that is Domino's Pizza. The Australian...
If you would ask somebody in 1996 what new concepts there would be in 2016 for delivering packages, I wonder if they would have said drones or driving robots. Delivery drones especially have been in the news a lot since last year. One of my favourites is the concept...
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...
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...
Amazon has revealed a new Prime Air drone design on the Prime Air page, and they've let former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson reveal the new design in a short video, which shows actual footage of drone delivery. All steps of the process are followed. The item is...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
