E-commerce shipping costs estimated
The costs associated with shipping and returning online purchased goods in The Netherlands have been estimated at €150 million for the 4th quarter of the year 2014 in a study conducted by NVC. The study took place in the context of the NVC innovation project on Web Retail Packaging and the NVC position paper ‘Packaging as Driver for the Sustained Future of E-Commerce’ which was published October 2nd, 2014.
The results were obtained by combining the sales results reported by the Dutch e-commerce traders organisation Thuiswinkel.org (Thuiswinkel Monitor) with the industry insights on the distribution of different e-commerce deliveries, shipment costs and percentage of goods returned.
Click here to download the infographic of Thuiswinkel Monitor (595 kB, in Dutch).
Click here for the pdf with the NVC estimate of the shipping cost (267 kB).
Click here to download the NVC Position Paper ‘Packaging as Driver for the Sustained Future of E-Commerce’ (417 kB).
Click here for more information on the NVC innovation project Web Retail Packaging.
If you have any questions about this subject, please contact us: info@nvc.nl, +31-(0)182-512411. This item is also included in our monthly overview, the NVC Members-only Update.