Effective last-mile logistics through containerization
Unlocking Opportunity
In 2006 online sales as a percentage of total retail sales stood at less than 3%. It's now approaching 30%. Why isn’t it 60%? …or more? - because until now it’s been too costly for retailers to add delivery capacity, and because until now it's cost their customers more than it needs to.
Bringing containerization into the urban logistics space changes everything - for all the miles, not just for final miles - creating opportunities to reduce costs and grow market share for businesses that get the transition to this new technology right.
Transforming Urban Logistics
RELM Logistics works with clients to structure the adoption of new vehicle technologies and accompanying operating procedures. Our services take clients through the entire 32 stages, beginning with scoping and design, right through to full deployment and monitoring. Our objective is to provide you with a robust and efficient low-cost steady-state delivery platform that's flexible future-proof and scalable, unlocking the financial and environmental benefits these new technologies offer you and your customers.
The Containerization Opportunity
$289bn
Final-Mile Sector Value
+39%
Efficiency Gains of Containerization
40+
Urban Logistics Projects
8+
Years Micro-Logistics Experience
Insight 001
Micro-mobility for logistics: the Sustainable Imperative
The economics of last mile delivery are collapsing
A policy meeting at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) heard from freight operators that the impact of congestion, access and parking on last mile delivery has been significant. Larger vehicles cannot complete their loads in the time available and are being replaced by multiple vans for the same journeys in city and urban areas. The vans in turn are not able to do the work that they once could because of routing, parking and traffic restrictions. Costs are nearly double for some operators. This was independently confirmed during the work for a Masters' Thesis at Cranfield School of Management. It showed that the work of a van fleet required twice as many vehicles to cope with the actual road speeds as compared to free-flowing traffic.
The civic pressures to create better living spaces, increase use of public transport and restrict car use are inexorable. The major implications of these changes are both reduced traffic space and parking; for last mile operators this translates into slow jounrneys, long walks with trolleys or barrows and frequent parking fines.
Truck and van delivery costs are becoming unsustainable while at the same time customers are increasing their share of on-line and home delivered purchases: from food to fashion.