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Towards the “Single Operator”? A Hypothesis on the End of Goods Distribution as We Know It<\/h1>\n

If you step out onto any busy street in a major city at ten in the morning, you’ll witness a scene that would be almost comical if it weren’t so inefficient: five vans from five different companies, double-parked, delivering five orders to the same building.<\/p>\n

In other sectors, the trend has been clear: consolidate or perish<\/b>. Yet last-mile logistics has remained a stronghold of individualism\u2026 until now. The question we raise today at Red Paralela is not whether the model will change, but how much time the current model has left before it collapses.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Wall Ahead: The Triple Threat<\/h2>\n

Traditional delivery is colliding with three realities that can no longer be avoided:<\/p>\n

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    Runaway cost escalation:<\/b> Fuel, fleet maintenance and, above all, labour costs are making the margin per delivery increasingly negligible.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Legislative pressure and Low Emission Zones (LEZ):<\/b> Municipal regulations are no longer suggestions; they are physical barriers. Entering city centres is (and will be) an expensive and restricted privilege.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Customer expectations:<\/b> We want everything “yesterday”, but we don’t want to see vans blocking our streets or breathe their fumes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Logistics Integration: Utopia or Necessity?<\/h2>\n

    The idea we put forward is ambitious: a unified distribution network<\/b>. Imagine that, instead of each distributor maintaining its own infrastructure as today, there are shared facilities where goods are consolidated before entering the urban environment.<\/p>\n

    What would we gain from this “shared logistics” model?<\/h3>\n