{"id":442356,"date":"2021-10-13T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=442356"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T06:51:50","slug":"amid-festive-demand-rising-fuel-prices-adding-to-cost-of-last-mile-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-festive-demand-rising-fuel-prices-adding-to-cost-of-last-mile-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid festive demand, rising fuel prices adding to cost of last-mile deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI:  High demand owing to the festive season, workforce shortage and rising fuel prices are some issues that last-mile delivery operators are grappling with even as many of them are forced to go for an increase in the prices of their services. <\/p>\n<p>Last-mile tech-logistics solution provider LetsTransport has seen the overall prices of their services increase by 6-8%. Pushkar Singh, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of the company, tells The New Indian Express, fuel prices have increased around 30% compared to last year and it comprises close to 30-40% of overall logistics cost for secondary and tertiary movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: High demand owing to the festive season, workforce shortage and rising fuel prices are some issues that last-mile delivery operators are grappling with even as many of them are forced to go for an increase in the prices of their services. Last-mile tech-logistics solution provider LetsTransport has seen the overall prices of their services increase by 6-8%. Pushkar Singh, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of the company, tells The New Indian Express, fuel prices have increased around 30% compared to last year and it comprises close to 30-40% of overall logistics cost for secondary and tertiary movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}