«Delivery» Company summed results of the 3d quarter 2016
Demand for shipping services is rapidly growing in Ukraine, while the Ukrainian people are more willing to receive their dispatches "door to door". This is evidenced by indicators of "Delivery" logistics company for the 3d quarter 2016.
So, during 10 months of the current year the volume of deliveries increased by 17% and accounted 23% of total shipments, in comparison with the same period of 2015. The percent of pick-ups of cargo is growing. If in previously year 22% of cargos, transported by "Delivery" Company was taken from the customer address, in the 3d quarter of 2016 this percent is 25%.
In the specialized segment of consolidated cargo, Company continued to steer the course, reaching the increase of average weight of 1 receipt (TTN receipt) by 9%.
Current results for the period: January-October 2016 showed an increased interest of cargo owners in insurance. On average, the number of insured goods increased by 19.5% in the company. Taking into the account the fact that at the West there is 90% covered by insurance of the goods, in Ukraine the insurance of goods covers less than half of the market - still a huge potential for further growth.
For the first three quarters of 2016 "Delivery" launched 39 new representative offices in the cities where the company has not been previously provided. The plans before the end of the year - the opening of 11 new warehouses in Ukraine in close proximity to the manufacturing and distribution centers, large companies of retail sector. Some representative offices will be launched on its own, and some - by franchise. Thus, up to the end of 2016 "Delivery" will execute the plan of opening, announced earlier this year, and will expand the network of representative offices up to 280.
From the beginning of the 2016 the Company actively extended the specter of services for individual persons and legal entity.
In July, "Cash on delivery" service was launched, allowing customers to transfer cash for goods. Today, COD is available at 45 representative offices of the company. Plan is to launch the COD at 55 representative offices all over Ukraine up to the end of the year.
Since the beginning of autumn "Delivery" started up the first industry solution "Auto Price" for manufacturers and distributors of spare parts. In October, the number of cargo dispatches of auto industry increased by 50%. The most popular category of cargo shipments were vehicle and passenger car tires, which occupied 79% of the total volume of deliveries of auto products through the "Delivery". Another "Delivery" priority course will be development of the construction industry, for which a new industry-specific proposal is creating by the company.
Since October 2016, "Delivery" became to deliver goods for Ukrainian people from USA online stores. Delivery-Shop is a new service which is fully automated system of goods purchases in US online-shops with the further delivery to more than 1760 points of issue in Ukraine. Today, in the catalog of Delivery online-shop is the largest in the world choice of consumer goods - Amazon. In the nearest time it will be available Zappos hypermarket and store for children - Toys R Us.
In 2017 "Delivery" plans to replenish Delivery-Shop catalog by online-shops from China.
Active dynamics is observed for the development of freight traffic through «DelTruck» company, which is included in "Delivery" group of companies. From January to October 2016 the number of «DelTruck» flights increased by 65%, the number of customers - has increased by 3.5 times in comparison with previous period of 2015.
