Magnit is increasing the volume of cargo transportation by autonomous transport

2025: Double the number of autonomous truck flights by M11

Magnet"" is increasing volumes cargo transportation autonomously. Since transport April 2025, the number of flights on the highway on M-11 "Neva" autonomous has trucks doubled, to 28 per week.

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Фото: Magnet

The partner is Navio, which since 2024 has been transporting Magnit goods on autonomous tractors between Moscow and St. Petersburg. By the end of 2025, the partners plan to increase the number of regular flights to 112 per week.

Cargo transfer from a conventional tractor to an autonomous one is carried out at approved points when entering and leaving the highway, the main and longest section of the route - the high-speed highway - the road train passes in autonomous mode. In some cases, the semi-trailer can be delivered directly to the consignee's warehouse. Semi-trailers involved in the project provide the necessary temperature regime and allow you to transport a wide range of food products without restrictions. When driving in autonomous mode, in the tractor cabin in accordance with the regulation governing the movement of highly automated vehicles (VATS) in Russia, there is an engineer whose task is to monitor and ensure safety for traffic participants in case of emergency situations.

Navio technology provides all the functionality of the driver behind the wheel. Autonomous truck equipped with an automated driving system, which includes a set of sensors and a computing module. The computer processes all information about the environment and selects the optimal parameters for the movement of the car. Fault tolerance of the system is ensured by redundancy of all key mechanisms.

Since 2023, Magnit has been testing autonomous cargo transportation along the M-11 highway. In total, the company completed almost 900 flights by autonomous transport, the mileage exceeded 555 thousand km, and the volume of transported goods - 17 thousand tons. In 2025, Magnit plans to expand the autonomous transportation project to new routes.

Magnit participates in the Federal Project "Unmanned Logistics Corridors" on the Neva M-11 highway as part of a single program of the experimental legal regime (EPR). EPR allows you to test digital innovations in freight transport, including the design, production and operation of highly automated vehicles and infrastructure for them, the development of services for the provision of transport and logistics services in the field of autonomous freight transportation. In the EPR program, Magnit acts as a customer for transportation, providing goods, and also shares its own expertise with the project participants.

Шаблон:Quote 'author=said Fedor Pavlovsky, director of supply chains and logistics at Magnit retail chain.

Шаблон:Quote 'author=noted Vladimir Buevich, Product Director of Avio Autonomous Trunk Freight.