What the chart shows

Today, the market mainly offers:

• Flat storage: limited investment, historical standard (inherited/extended parks), but highly land-consuming and often labor-intensive.
• Verticalized: high density, but total cost (investment + operation) is hardly sustainable.

Hi Park bridges the gap: strong densification, controlled total cost, scalable verticalization.

CAPEX/OPEX Issues:

Beyond CAPEX, the central challenge in FVL operations is OPEX: labor, operational hazards, productivity at high density, and the ability to absorb variable volumes.

Hi Park is designed as a long-term trade-off between:

• structuring CAPEX (infrastructure)
• more predictable OPEX, less exposed to inflation and labor tensions

Leverages behind Hi Park's positioning

OPEX Levers:reduce OPEX and stabilize operations. Automation of handling impacts several areas:

• Reduction of repetitive and low-value-added tasks, thus reducing labor needs for movements.
• Extended time slots: handling can be spread over a longer period, reducing peaks and improving cut-off compliance.
• Fewer operational hazards: less sensitivity to bad weather, absenteeism, and productivity variations.
• More stable performance at high density: the system limits the productivity degradation observed in flat parks as they approach saturation.

Optimal Usage (Hi Park / Flat Mix):

The optimum is not to cover 100% of a site's storage.

• A dedicated area must be kept for non-standard vehicles (or those outside the retained standard).
• The site must retain the ability to adjust resources (human) according to volume and flow variability.
• Optimization Principle (Operational Logic):
  • When stock is low, most of the stock is concentrated in Hi Park (organization, safety, performance).
  • When stock is high, the optimum often consists of having Hi Park cover the minimum stock (base) and supplementing with flat areas, to maintain operational flexibility.

Where does densification create the most value?

Where land is rare, expensive, and strategic

The benefit of densification increases significantly when land is:

• rare and costly (metropolises)
• constrained (ports, industrial-port areas)
• and/or when you need to be as close as possible to the flows

In these contexts, verticalizing in the right place allows:

• to reduce load breaks (e.g., keeping vehicles in the port arrival area rather than relocating them)
• to reduce logistical kilometers (and upstream/downstream costs) by bringing stock closer to the point of consumption (dealership networks in dense areas), thus improving proximity (lead times, service quality)

Hi Park: a global optimization

With an optimal usage combining Hi Park and flat areas.