Ep 129: Omniva COO Martin Luts on innovation and infrastructure. Also: Amazon's wage increase

Oct 8, 2018

Martin Luts, Chief Operational Officer at Omniva, joins me to talk about some innovation and new infrastructure, including:

• A new sorting centre
  • Increased efficiency and volume capacity
  • Centralised sorting of letters and parcels under the same roof
  • Sorting plans and subsidiary hubs
  • Solar panels on the roof
• Electric vehicle trial, and the use cases for electric delivery vehicles
• Omniva’s growing network of parcel lockers across the Baltics
  • Public acceptance
  • Location and availability

Also in this episode, Dean Maciuba, Managing Partner North America for Last Mile Experts, analyses Amazon’s recent wage increase.

• What this means for small carriers as well as the delivery giants such as UPS, FedEx and USPS
• The tight labour market and hiring for peak season