The logistics and transport sector is undoubtedly going through a great moment, as companies that offer courier and parcel services keep growing; in fact, a notable increase in shipments is expected for 2019. This sustained growth is driven, in large part, by the consolidation of each transport agency that has been able to adapt to the new demands of e-commerce.
E-commerce courier services continue to grow by 20% year after year.
And as stated in the study by the DBK Sector Observatory of INFORMA, the annual turnover of this sector has been increasing by quite notable figures, and e-commerce has grown by 20% compared to the previous financial year for the third consecutive year.
We are buying more and more in online stores
As we have said, e-commerce sites are major drivers of the increase in courier services, since the range of products we find on the internet is increasingly richer in variety and highly competitive in price. If you add to that the ease and convenience of buying from anywhere, whether from your mobile while you wait in the dentist’s waiting room, or when you are relaxing at home with your tablet, doing your shopping at your trusted supermarket, the result is that more and more purchases are made online.
Fast and secure deliveries for online purchases.
You can go to your supermarket’s website, do your shopping at 10 in the morning and have it at home by 3 in the afternoon, fast and with free shipping. We are creating such a strong trend in online shopping that it is now even unusual to pay shipping costs.
But this upward trend in online shopping also means that courier companies have had to invest in updating themselves and providing users with useful information in real time about the status of their shipment, so companies that have not become aware of this new way of understanding courier and transport services are going through difficult times. The same goes for small local courier agencies, since many of the services they offered have been reduced.
Courier services are so much on the rise that we also find mobile applications which, at very low prices, can pick up the item or items we want in different locations for us and take them wherever we want in just a few hours.
Restaurants, supermarkets, clothing stores, accessories, tools, lamps, furniture, mattresses… Absolutely everything you might need to buy for your daily life can be delivered to your home by a courier, conveniently and very cheaply or even for free. This new scenario reinforces the role of local courier services as a key solution to provide an immediate response to proximity purchases and last-mile deliveries.
