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Nominated for OUT OF THE BOX.NRW
Colonia Technologies GmbH
Cologne, Berlin
Nominated by:
Eugen Tschernov
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Your business model in three sentences
Colonia Technologies GmbH is provider of a digital sharing platform for commercial vehicles. It helps fleet operators to flexibly rent or rent out trucks and trailers depending on their capacity utilization so that they can act more economically.
What problem do you solve?
Today, managing trucks, trailers and fleets is a very complex business for every stakeholder involved. Volatile order situation requires strong flexibility. Expensive and slow access to a limited choice of road freight-vehicles slows companies down. At the same time, other logistics operators are faced with poor utilization when order volume decreases making trucks and trailers standing around unused. Lack of digitization hinders innovation, while the planet is demanding the industry to act more climate-conscious now. The business and social pressure on self-employed truckers, small and medium companies and even on logistic giants is enormous.
What's your digital solution?
We help our customers win by giving them simple access to one digitally shared fleet of commercial vehicles. Fleet operators can flexibly rent or rent out trucks and trailers depending on their fleet capacity utilization so that they can act more economically. With our sharing model we aim to make road transport more sustainable while increasing the competitiveness of our clients. Through the platform fleet owners get fast and flexible access to the right vehicle, at the right place, at the right time. Everything is included for a fixed monthly rental price. We are collaborating with partners throughout Germany. This allows us to guarantee our customers a wide geographical coverage and a very broad selection of vehicles. Companies that want to rent out their unused vehicles can easily upload and activate them to make them accessible to thousands of companies that want to flexibly increase their fleet for a certain period. All uploaded vehicles can be easily digitally managed.
Why should we award you for your digital business model?
We are solving one of the biggest bottlenecks in road logistics: Volatile order situation and bad access to commercial vehicles. With our sharing platform we make road transport more sustainable while increasing the competitiveness of our clients.