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...
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...
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,...
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...
This past weekend was the last weekend of my Summer Break. I had two great weeks with my family in the South of France and one week around my home town Rotterdam. One of this break's final activities was a visit to SAIL in Amsterdam, which entailed 8 friends, a...
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...
