Belgian Postal Company Moves Into Crowdsourced Deliveries

by Martijn Graat | Jun 26, 2016 | Last Mile, Start-ups

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...

Carpooling, Yes, Carpooling for Goods: Sjipit

by Martijn Graat | Sep 21, 2015 | Logistics, Start-ups

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...

The Uberization of Logistics Continues: e-Commerce Deliveries

by Martijn Graat | Sep 10, 2015 | Last Mile, Start-ups

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...

Crowdsourced Logistics: Social and Sustainable Shipping. And Waffles.

by Martijn Graat | Feb 28, 2015 | Blog

A Crowdsourced Logistics concept is a concept that engages the public (companies and private persons alike) to seek excess capacity in existing modes of transport, storage space, and/or time. This can be a private vehicle, but also a taxi, (delivery) van, or truck. A...

3 Technology Trends Changing Supply Chains

by Martijn Graat | Feb 19, 2015 | Blog

It was some time around Christmas that fellow Supply Chain enthusiast Eytan Buchman, whose work you can read on the Freightos Blog, asked me if I wanted to put my thoughts to paper on which 3 technology trends would be changing Supply Chains as we know them between...