Rwandese firm SAFIRUN, principally recognized for pioneering eco-friendly supply and logistics companies in Kigali, has been engaged on varied green-transport options for items and companies utilizing electrical scooters, electrical bikes, and electrical vans over the previous 4 years. On the micromobility aspect, sister agency GURARIDE, a inexperienced e-mobility public bike-share (PBS) transport system firm, has been scaling up operations in Rwanda. GURARIDE combines sensible bikes, electrical scooters, and electrical bike-sharing in a single app to allow customers to decide on their journey desire.
GURARIDE needs to take over the primary and final mile transport industries throughout Africa. Another sister agency, SAFI, assembles electrical bikes and scooters in Rwanda. Its different sister firm, SAFI UNIVERSAL LINK, is rolling out its charging station infrastructure as EVPLUGIN in Rwanda. EVPLUGIN is a public EV charging station options community firm in Africa, with a concentrate on facilitating the migration from fossil gasoline transportation to inexperienced electrical mobility.
SAFIRUN has been carrying deliveries for varied retailers utilizing its brief code 3040 in addition to providing totally different logistics options to native companies and shoppers utilizing its electrical fleet. Its new multipurpose smartphone app (Android & iOS) permits customers to put service requests, actual time supply monitoring, and supply on the spot service suggestions. The companies embrace courier companies, meals supply, prescription drugs and necessities, groceries, wines, and spirits, parcels supply, and particular or pressing pick-n-drop companies.
The SAFIRUN SuperApp needs to assist to redefine e-commerce for each prospects and totally different native companies. Users could have entry to over 12 service classes in one single app. The super-app will facilitate the supply of commodities like meals, style, and prescription drugs, and also will present a variety of companies starting from ‘pick-and-drop’ and reserving accommodations or flats, to hiring professionals like plumbers, landscapers, and different artisans for each skilled and personal work.
The SAFIRUN Super-App can be introducing an in-app cashless cash switch service known as the SAFIRUN E-Wallet, the place friends or colleagues can alternate digital cash throughout the app by way of their registered SAFIRUN accounts in an effort to advertise a cashless economic system and praise Covid-19 prevention measures. The firm affords reward factors that translate into spendable digital cash on each transaction carried out utilizing the SAFIRUN E-Wallet.
During the sooner pilot phases, SAFURUN achieved over 30,000 deliveries and coated greater than 26,000 km in simply 2 quarters of 2021 whereas creating 65 jobs. SAFIRUN is eyeing fleet growth by the tip of the second quarter of 2022 with an extra 80 inexperienced jobs created by the tip of 2022’s second quarter. Aligning its growth targets with the foreseen demand, SAFIRUN is decided to additionally prioritize gender inclusion and girls empowerment by way of engagement in supply and logistics companies whereas additionally producing new employment alternatives for Rwandan youths.
All photographs courtesy of SAFIRUN
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