If there is anything that we have seen during these past 2 years is that transportation was the driving role in keeping the country going despite huge setbacks. With people unable to leave their homes and shops being closed, the transportation of E-commerce goods saw a dramatic boom in business. Handling these where core workers who devoted their time to making sure consumers got their products.
The country before the pandemic saw a rise in E-commerce delivery because regardless of a pandemic, the Highstreet was dying, seeing shopper numbers in store drop dramatically as e-commerce shops such as Amazon, Boohoo, and ASOS took the podium for online shopping.
Analysing these two key interpretations, one being the pandemic and the other being the lack of high-street shoppers, where does the future of transportation lay?
Fundamentally we hope there will not always be a pandemic, the global economy relies of that, but one thing it cannot rely on is the fact that the high-street is dying. The analysis is rather simple, delivery and transportation will continue to grow but is there an opportunity for the two to work together?
The future of transportation will fundamentally rely on people needing things to be delivered so as long as there is commerce anywhere, transportation companies should see a logarithmic path to growth if they handle their business correctly.
