Sustainable Centralized Package Delivery Service Pilot Project Launched at Ghent University

Bestelwagen UGent - The Procurement Unit has launched LOOP GENT with the City of Ghent for a more efficient and sustainable package delivery system at Ghent University. Nederlandse versie Package delivery services like BPost, DHL, GLS, UPS or PostNL pose a great challenge to modern cities and the City of Ghent is no exception. Within this context, Ghent University struggles with the additional difficulty of working with a string of different delivery services that deliver packages to our campuses and building complexes; large locations with an often-complex layout which is difficult for deliverymen to find their way in. Problem. Every deliveryman has to navigate their vehicle through the city to make their way to our locations after which, more often than not, they get lost in our buildings. This forces them to bother Ghent University employees for directions to the correct recipient of their package and, if no-one's available, they often just drop the package with the first person they see - or worse still, the package is abandoned and lost. This results in an inefficient, environmentally unfriendly system that often has problems getting packages to the correct recipient.