News / From 'bogeyman' to partner, Uber begins to gain traction in logistics

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Uber is making inroads into local deliveries beyond smaller shippers.

Forwarders have started using the logistics arm of the ride-sharing platform – albeit not on a comprehensive or regular basis.

This marks a transformation for Uber from being the bogeyman of the logistics industry into a bona fide part of the landscape, to partner with where viable.

At industry events over the past two or three years, Uber has been consistently invoked as the great disruptive force of an emerging new landscape that would take ...