Zero-emission delivery company Zedify has secured £50,000 in funding to create a new delivery hub in Edinburgh.
According to the e-cargo bike provider, the new delivery service is set to launch this spring.
Packages coming into Edinburgh from national retailers or via logistics carriers will be re-moded to e-cargo bikes and trikes and consolidated with local business deliveries going to the same areas, allowing each package to be delivered more efficiently.
Zedify Edinburgh’s Charlie Mulholland said: “We’re delighted to have received this boost to our operation in Edinburgh, which will support us to grow our green logistics service and help the city tackle congestion and air pollution.”
This project is supported by the South East of Scotland Transport Partnership (SEStran), with funding from the Smarter Choices Smarter Places fund and the European Union Interreg North Sea project SURFLOGH.
Working alongside Edinburgh Napier University and SEStran, SURFLOGH aims to research and catalogue sustainable commercial business models for urban last-mile logistics. Its main goal is to develop blueprints that can be replicated using the Zedify pilot case study from Edinburgh, alongside pilots in Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium.
SEStran chair councillor Gordon Edgar said: “Increasingly we see a strong appetite for moving more goods by sustainable means as well as evidence that consolidation is currently being undertaken successfully by operators like Zedify.
“This willingness can be exploited by exploring opportunities to enhance and introduce infrastructure that will facilitate modal shift as well as building on consolidation efforts by providing facilities that enable multiple loads to be transported on the ‘last mile’ by a single vehicle or cycle logistics.
Zedify currently operates 10 urban delivery hubs across the UK including in Bristol, Glasgow, London and Cambridge.
