New York - A new delivery service in New York is aiming to shift deliveries from roads to the waterways. The last-mile service launched by the American logistics firm DutchX will connect ferry services with bike couriers. The partners say it will generate positive change for residents and the environment.

A last-mile delivery service that connects New York’s waterways with e-bike couriers is set to launch in the American big city later in September, according to an article from the platform Cities Today. The project was initiated by the New York-based logistics firm DutchX, which has partnered with the e-bike company Fernhay. The service will facilitate packages brought by ferry from warehouses outside the city to Manhattan to be collected by bike couriers for the final section of the delivery.

“We are thrilled to be pioneering this ground-breaking delivery model with Fernhay to change the future of last-mile deliveries,” Marcus Hoed, Co-Founder of DutchX, told Cities Today. “Shifting deliveries from the roadways to waterways can spark positive change for our clients, our community and the environment.”

DutchX will use existing NY Waterway ferry routes, which it says has “more linear feet of shoreline than any other city in the world”. According to the article, since the launch of New York City Department of Transportation’s Commercial Cargo Bike pilot programme in 2019, cargo-bike deliveries have increased significantly. In 2022, cargo bikes delivered more than five million packages, resulting in the reduction of over 650,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions. ce/em