PostNL, in collaboration with SimplyMile, will open five more hubs in various Dutch cities this year to increase the number of business goods delivered emission-free.
Hubs will be opened in Groningen, The Hague, Maastricht, Utrecht and Nijmegen. By 2020 at least ten more cities are to be added; and by 2025 PostNL intends to operate emission-free in a total of 25 city centres.
Thanks to the collaboration with SimplyMile, the Dutch carrier has already been able to supply emission-free business goods in Amsterdam city centre since 2017.
In order to reach the emissions-free goal, both PostNL and SimplyMile have signed the Zero Emission City Logistics Green Deal together with various government bodies and other businesses. While SimplyMile contributes to emission-free deliveries by opening hubs together with local partners in large cities, PostNL provides the emission-free business distribution in the cities.
Jan van Deudekom, managing director of SimplyMile, said: “We want to make a contribution to cleaner and less crowded city centres. In city hubs at the city periphery we receive goods, store them when required and bundle them. after which PostNL is responsible for the emission-free transport. In this way we can make the goods transport to city centres more sustainable in joint cooperation. The cooperation with PostNL started in 2017 from one city hub in Amsterdam. It is fantastic that we will add five locations this year and in 2020 it is expected that we will add at least ten other locations.”
Rogier Havelaar, managing director of city logistics PostNL, added: “PostNL wants to be the favorite deliverer of the Benelux and lead the way with zero-emission distribution. We committed ourselves to this when we signed the Zero Emission City Logistics Green Deal (ZES).
“Thanks to the cooperation with SimplyMile we can now also deliver business goods emission-free from city hubs in Groningen, The Hague, Maastricht, Utrecht and Nijmegen. And there are other things which we have planned for 2020 through which we can make a serious contribution to reducing traffic movements and improving the air quality in several cities.”
