28 June DELIVERY: WHICH ECO-RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS?
Le transport sector, and more particularly of logistic transport, is an essential link in our daily lives. This is why we must opt for eco-responsible alternatives to existing delivery methods.
1. The challenge of road transport and delivery services
Our changes in lifestyles and the evolution of our consumption patterns (digital transformation, deployment of e-commerce, growth in home or office delivery, increased demand for express delivery) contribute to the multiplication of Livrison Services. Delivery vehicles would represent 20% of urban road traffic.
Social and societal but also environmental responsibilities of this delivery market are strong. Not only is the road transport sector one of the more polluting : emitter of greenhouse gases, producer of fine particles… but it also participates noise pollution and clutter urban public space.
Last mile delivery, last stage of the supply chain when the package has arrived at its final destination, is alone responsible for 20% of traffic, 25% of greenhouse gases and occupies 30% of the road network.
It has therefore become a major issue for public policy. To transform this sector, the mobility orientation law (LOM) of 2019 prompted the emergence of cleaner and more active mobility.
Companies have increasingly developed delivery services fast, innovative and less expensive to meet the requirements of their customers. Indeed delivery has become a criterion of customer loyalty : according to the FIFG, 62% of those surveyed place delivery as the first criterion of choice when purchasing online.
Companies facing multiple challenges simultaneously seek to:
-Optimize deliveries to limit the number of kilometers travelled, maximize fill rates, integrate product returns into routes
– Put in place green solutions
For short journeys, mainly in congested urban centers, players offer ecological alternatives for transport:
- Logistics transport by bike which is a means of proximity, ecological, economical and fast:
➔ yaka veil : delivery to the Aix en Provence region; The couriers from Niort : Delivery to Niort; Saint-Etienne couriers : Xooperative of cyclo logistics in Saint Etienne; Green course In Nantes
- Eco-responsible transport and delivery services with low-emission vehicles : Limes ; Citeliv ; Green at home ; green parcels ; Ecolotrans
- Parcel co-transport : Cocolis, a collaborative platform dedicated to co-transportation
2. The adaptation of maritime transport
In terms of pollution, this sector is far ahead of road and air transport with 13,5% total greenhouse gas emissions. Despite everything, solutions are being put in place to reduce its environmental impact. The company neoline offers an efficient, competitive and responsible logistics solution with a sailing cargo ship powered by renewable energy.
The logistics and delivery sector must therefore adapt to the requirements and new lifestyles of consumers, but also to preserve the environment. Companies are changing while new players are emerging offering increasingly clean or zero C02 emissions, more collaborative and faster solutions.