- Bol.com introduces new delivery service
Dutch marketplace bol.com introduces a new delivery service in 2020. The model, called ‘Verzenden via bol.com‘ (Shipping via bol.com) makes next-day delivery available to all partners. The marketplace platform will make more information available through its partner platform later this year. Bol.com makes the new service available in cooperation with PostNL and Red je Pakketje. According to bol.com, logistical scaling advantages will help merchants to save on shipping costs with the ...Continue reading → - Almost 40% of Dutch businesses order online
As the online B2B market is growing, Multiscope has performed research commissioned by Thuiswinkel.org and PostNL to create an overview of current trends. Of the more than 5000 respondents, almost 40% indicates they placed an online business order in the Netherlands. Mainly office equipment and electronics are bought. A less predictable product category is machines and tractors, in which 25% ordered something online. According to Wijnand Jongen, president of Thuiswinkel.org: “consumers are ...Continue reading → - Amazon aims to be semi-climate neutral in 2030
E-commerce giant Amazon will present its strategy to operate entirely CO2-neutral in the long term later this year. The closest target, according to its ambitions, is to carry out half of all logistics shipments by 2030 in a climate-neutral way. Internally, Amazon refers to the endeavour with the project name ‘Shipment Zero’. Shipment Zero is one of a series of initiatives to set up the entire Amazon organisation in a CO2-neutral ...Continue reading → - Joint Industry Statement on Brexit and Parcel Delivery
Ecommerce Europe, Fevad, Thuiswinkel.org, Händlerbund, Netcomm, EshopWedrop, An Post, DPD Group and PostNL have presented a joint statement on Brexit and parcel delivery. They opt that the United Kingdom and the EU27 must keep goods and parcels flow efficiently as cross-border retail has been growing exponentially in Europe over the last decade. The main argument of the statement is the development of e-commerce through parcel delivery, which has significantly contributed ...Continue reading → - E-commerce represents 42 percent of PostNL’s turnover
Dutch postal company PostNL experiences that e-commerce is becoming a more important turnover factor every year. Last year, e-commerce logistics was responsible for 34 percent. This percentage increased by 8 percent this year, to a total of 42 percent of the total revenue. According to PostNL, the company’s performance in the first quarter of 2018 was below the first quarter of the year before. However, the revenue in Q1 was five ...Continue reading →