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oing business online
via Amazon, Zalando
and Co. has developed
at a rapid pace during the past
few years and is expected to
continue growing in the future.
Shipping quantities continue to
decrease, customers tend to or-
der individual items on the Inter-
net, albeit more frequently, and
demands for quick delivery are
increasing. Solutions for meet-
ing the challenges of doing busi-
ness online will be on display at
transport logistic 2017.
According to the latest figures,
volume on the global e-commerce
market could increase rapidly to
some USD 4,000 billion by the
year 2020, and the market for lo-
gistics is expected to reach USD
100 billion by 2021. These devel-
opments mean new challenges
for dealers, manufacturers and
logistics service providers.
Growing demand for last-mile
and city logistics concepts
When package and/or consign-
ment volume increases, so do the
number of de-liveries to end con-
sumers and the number of trips
into delivery areas. Additional
traffic places a greater burden
on residents and streets, espe-
cially in inner cities and urban
centers, increasing the urgency
of implementing efficient last-
mile or city-logistics concepts.
For this reason, transport logistic
2017 is partnering with the DVV
Media Group to develop the new
“metropolitan logistic” umbrella
brand—a communication plat-
form for companies in the logis-
tics, industrial and retail sectors
that brings them together with
decision-makers in the public
sector and NGOs.
E-commerce warehouses
in cities
When it comes to same-day de-
livery, logistics locations have
to be near customers to be able
to meet this logistics challenge
in a timely and effective manner.
In urban centers and inner-city
locations, that predominantly
works in existing buildings that
may even be used by multiple
companies, because space for
new logistics facilities is hardly
available. Scalable and auto-
mated logistics solutions that
are built upward are in greater
demand. High efficiency despite
minimal consignment quantities,
efficient order consolidation and
the shortest possible throughput
times are the requirements to
be met by modern e-commerce
warehouses. Cooperative bun-
dling of shipments even between
competing parcel services can
make deliveries to private house-
holds simpler and keep them
affordable. A logistically de-
manding concept such as home
delivery could then be profitable
if it were possible to set up deliv-
ery rounds with a large number
of stops that are optimized with
regard to volume, delivery des-
tination and delivery timeframe.
“metropolitan logistic” can make
an important contribution to that
objective, as well.
Text:
Messe München GmbH
Messegelände
D-81823 München
Faster, smaller, more
• transport logistic features solutions for ongoing urbanization
Hall B3 Booth 314/414