Cycle Logistics
What is Cycle Logistics?
Cycle logistics is the professional transportation of goods and services by cargo bikes. It goes beyond simple transport to include storage, handling and flow management, offering companies a complete and unique solution.
For professionals, such as maintenance and repair technicians, the use of cargo bikes is a sustainable means of delivering high-quality services efficiently, making them particularly useful in today’s urban environments.
The characteristics of Cycle Logisitics
First and last mile operations: Specializing in the initial and final stages of the delivery process in cities, cycle logistics ensures that goods reach their destination efficiently.
Cycle logistics is always reliable : unaffected by traffic jams or adverse weather conditions, easily reaching any destination.
Seamless integration: Cycle logistics collaborates with other modes of transport – on road, water or rail – enabling seamless integration into wider logistics chains.
Why Cycle-Logistics?
Environmental benefits
Wherever possible, cycle logistics offers a sustainable alternative to motorized vehicles, helping to :
- Reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Reduce the carbon footprint and combat climate change.
- Reduce fine-particle emissions: Improve air quality in urban areas.
- Reduce noise pollution: Create quieter, more pleasant cities.
- Improve quality of life in urban areas: Promote better living and working environments
Economic benefits
Cycle Logistics is good for the economy: it creates local jobs and businesses.
At the same time, Cycle Logistics reduces the collective costs generated by traffic in cities: traffic jams, accidents, occupation of common space, public health.
Social benefits
Cycle logistics is an industry where people are at the heart of the business. The bike couriers employed by BCLF members benefit from fair and secure employment.
BCLF and its members oppose the casualization of bike courier jobs, refusing to systematically transfer all the costs, uncertainties and risks associated with our activities onto their shoulders.
Who are the Cycle Logisticians?
Professional transporters:
Organizations that provide transport services to third parties and specialize in cycle logistics. Some use cargo bikes exclusively, while others combine several types of vehicle.
Companies using cargo bikes:
Companies that deliver their own goods or services using cargo bikes, for whom delivery and transport are not the main activity, but a means of fulfilling their commitments to their customers.