Pass the parcel: meeting the challenges of e-commerce fulfilment
Online sales soared to new heights last year to £133bn, surpassing 2015’s figure by 13.5%. This, of course, ...
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By Alex Lennane
The market seems to be reacting well to an innovative idea by Mole Solutions to burrow underground for freight deliveries, instead of using the more congested roads and airspace. The company is to start a pilot project in Northampton UK to find out if Maglev-operated capsules of cargo can run through underground tubes. As Mole notes, water and oil are transported by pipe, so why not goods? An interesting idea…
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