sennder, a European road freight transport company, has announced a joint venture (JV) with Poste Italiane, the largest logistics operator in Italy.
The newly formed JV operates under the name “sennder Italia S.r.l.” and manages all Italian transport for sennder GmbH. The €100 million (US$114 million)/year JV focuses on improving its long-haul road transportation efficiency and covers the entire full truck load (FTL) network, moving parcels and mail between all sorting and distribution hubs of the Italian postal service provider.
sennder’s proprietary digital freight forwarding platform is specialised in the FTL market, aimed at organising, logging and optimising cargo for transportation.
Through this partnership, Poste Italiane will benefit from full GPS visibility of trucks, state of the art operating technology and reduced carbon emissions through the utilisation of vehicles with alternative fuels and higher utilisation. As a result Poste Italiane will benefit from generated savings of over 6% on its annual €100 million (US$113 million) Full Truck Load spending, according to a company statement.
“We bring cloud-based communications and better record keeping, along with a more efficient logistical mapping organisation, to an industry that has been operating largely by way of faxed or shipped invoices. Our GPS tracking will help Poste Italiane with highly precise arrival estimates,” commented David Nothacker, sennder CEO and co-founder.
The rise in efficiency and usage of state-of-the-art technology is a key pillar for Poste Italiane, with CEO and general manager, Matteo del Fante’s Deliver 2022 programme, set to “combine internal developments with external solutions to best address market opportunities.”
In that context, the key to success is the volume of orders managed by sennder’s digital platform that allows advanced algorithms to minimise the empty mileage of Poste Italiane trucks.
“The initiative is part of the broader commitment taken with our Joint Delivery Model to modernise our fleet and further optimise our logistics value chain through advanced IT solutions. Poste Italiane is successfully combining internal innovations with specialist start-up partnerships made possible by its new Open Innovation IT platform,” added Del Fante.
