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Notes on the Baltic last mile

Practical writing on route planning, delivery economics and the data problems nobody warns you about. Written by the people who build Kelvara, for the people who run deliveries.

Illustration of delivery stops clustering into a dense route

Operations 30 June 2026 ·8 min read

The economics of route density, and why one extra stop per kilometre changes everything

Density is the single biggest lever on last-mile cost, and it is also the one most operators measure wrong. Here is how to think about stops per kilometre, and what actually moves it.

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Illustration of an electric van charging with a state-of-charge curve

Fleet 19 May 2026

What electrifying the last mile actually changes about your routes

EVs do not just swap one fuel for another. They change how you plan, where you charge and which routes are worth the switch first.

Illustration of a parcel-locker cabinet grid with utilisation figures

Networks 24 March 2026

Parcel-locker economics, line by line

A locker only saves money when it is busy. We break down the unit economics and the utilisation threshold that decides it.

Illustration of messy address strings resolving into a structured record

Data quality 11 December 2025

Address normalisation in the Baltics is harder than it looks

One address, five correct spellings, none of them matching your database. Why Baltic addresses break geocoders, and how we fixed it.

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