As Express Trailers celebrates the 4th anniversary of its online logistic application ShipLowCost.com, the service keeps confirming its successful growth rate. In the first seven months of this year in fact, the service saw year-on-year growth in the number of registered users and take-up.
Launched in 2012 to assist consumers bring their online shopping to Malta, ShipLowCost.com rides on the strength that no size or weight limitations apply and therefore, holiday and online shoppers can have practically anything they buy, shipped to Malta, right to their door.
ShipLowCost.com started operating from four depots, in the UK, Germany, Italy and France with the addition of Sicily which came a few months after the service was launched. The service kept growing with the addition of three new depots earlier this year, in the Netherlands, in Spain and another in Austria, bringing the number of European depots to a total of eight, all strategically located across Europe, the biggest source of holiday and online shopping.
The UK is by far the most popular hub of activity for ShipLowCost.com customers, followed by Italy and then Germany.
"The application is an online solution complementing e-commerce business. We are logistics people, providing total logistic solutions, and practically, ShipLowCost.com applies our service philosophy online," explains Franco Azzopardi, Chairman and CEO of Express Trailers.
"Customers can take advantage of our expertise in logistics and trust our risk awareness, directly through this portal by accessing ShipLowCost.com when booking the mode of delivery of their purchases to their address in Malta. The service is popular among travelling customers buying goods whilst abroad, or having oversized or overweight luggage. It has also complimented e-commerce and has become the online shoppers' preferred solution to bring their purchases home. The solution is also popular among business people opting for a self-service type of freight solution for their cargo. All they need to do is choose the closest depot, have their items sent there and through our seamless and customer-friendly platform, we make sure their items are delivered straight to their door."
"We have invested in a solid online platform and a strong e-shopping infrastructure and our service is backed by our long years of experience in the transport business which has already given us an excellent reputation as Express Trailers identifiable by the hallmark #WeAreOrange and Delivering Trust strapline. Our reliability and safety have been tried and tested and we are proud of this service which we plan to keep expanding and improving for the benefit of our increasing customer base," concluded Franco Azzopardi.