X5 launched regular transportation with trucks without drivers driving on the Moscow-Petersburg highway

X5 launched regular transportation with trucks without drivers driving on the highway M11 MoscowSt. Petersburg-. The press service of the retailer announced this on July 3, 2023.

Unmanned cargo transportation is carried out on the basis of the KAMAZ-54901 tractor, and the semi-trailer, which will carry food, is a refrigerated truck with a volume of 20 tons, maintaining the necessary temperature regime for the transportation of goods of a wide range of categories. On a segment with a length of about 600 km, a tractor with a semi-trailer will move without the help of a driver, after which a special hub will be connected to a regular tractor to continue the route.

Unmanned cargo transportation is carried out on the basis of a tractor KAMAZ-54901

As stated in X5, the retailer became the first grocery retail company to launch regular commercial transportation for real deliveries to retail chains. Earlier, the owner of the supermarket chains Five"" and Intersection"" took part in the development of unmanned logistics corridors, regulatory requirements for a pilot launch, as well as testing trucks with KamAZ"." During the preparation for the launch, the parties identified the route and potential volumes for transportation. At the first stage, one car will be sent from Moscow and from per St. Petersburg day. The route will connect the company's distribution centers in and, Moscow added to Leningrad Oblast X5.

X5 Transport traditionally monitors the latest developments and innovations, it is a great honor for us to be the pioneers among retailers in such a high-tech project. I am confident that our flight to the future will serve the development of domestic developments and open up the prospects for new partnerships, which will allow us to quickly exchange information and make long-term plans to improve the service for our key partners, "said Kirill Kuzmenko, Managing Director of X5 Transport.[1]

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