Logistics tech firm GoBOLT bags Amazon as customer

Logistics technology company GoBOLT has bagged Amazon as its customer. This is a feather in the cap of the start-up as it has bagged the exclusive rights — the only player to provide logistics services — in certain routes for the e-commerce giant.

The firm already counts Flipkart and Ecom Express as its customers and has exclusive rights for running trucks on several routes of Ecom Express and some for Flipkart. Having e-commerce players as its customers has helped the logistics company tide over seasonal variations while dealing with non-e-commerce players.

“No other industry is seeing the kind of growth that the e-commerce segment is witnessing,” Sumit Sharma, co-founder GoBOLT, told

BusinessLine . He added that e-commerce has lower seasonal variations — with high peaks achieved not just during festival season sales, but also additional sales during extended weekends. For instance, there was a manifold increase in business during October.

For Amazon, the company has bagged exclusive rights for long-distance routes in the North and North-West regions (such as Gurugram-Jaipur, Gurugram-Haryana, Gurugram-Shimla, Gurugram-Ahmedabad, and Gurugram-Pune). It operates only in the long-distance routes. The company bagged the deal through Amazon’s amateur vendor-onboarding programme of Amazon.

On what helped the company being chosen, Sharma said apart from its professional background, matching thoughts with Amazon on using technology to do wonders for the sector, and having worked for Flipkart and Ecom Express for about a year, helped.