The Chinese platform announced that it will start providing food delivery services from restaurants, an option that will initially be offered to customers located in the Greater Metropolitan Area.
The company will compete in the Costa Rican market with the DiDi Food brand, an application that is currently in the affiliation phase for restaurants and delivery companies interested in collaborating with the platform.
After Delivery Hero bought the digital home delivery platform Glovo in 2020, the company has informed that in order to compete in the Guatemalan market it intends to execute an ambitious investment plan.
Although dealing with a demanding and challenging market with several competitors, companies dedicated to the transportation of people and delivery still visualize multiple opportunities in Costa Rica.
The need to access more efficient mobility, changes in consumption patterns and the upward trend in the introduction of smartphones and the Internet, have created a business scenario in which the demand for mobile platform services dedicated to the transportation of people and home delivery, increases over the years.
Following the reform of government agreement 17-2020, the entry into force of the regulation requiring passenger and cargo transport units to take out civil liability insurance was delayed for one year in Guatemala.
Arguing that the decision is due to the commitment of the search of the profitability, from November 8 the Spanish company of transport by application will stop offering its services in Santo Domingo and Panama City.
As a result of a constant process of analysis of the markets in which it operates, the company has made the strategic decision to stop its service in both capitals, the company said in a statement.
In a transaction valued at around $272 million, German company Delivery Hero acquired Glovo's operations in eight Latin American countries, including Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and the Dominican Republic.
Delivery Hero strengthens its position in Latin America, adding Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras and Guatemala to its existing presence, and further expanding its existing operations in Argentina, Panama and the Dominican Republic, the German business group reported.
After the government of Guatemala issued new regulations, the Municipality of the country's capital decided to restrict the circulation of heavy vehicles from Monday to Friday, from 5:00 to 9:00 and from 16:30 to 21:00.
In this scenario of changing habits, the company Uber announced that in the Panamanian market it will make available to its customers a new service of sending articles, which will be called Uber Flash.
For more than three months, when the first cases of covid-19 were reported in Panama, the population has been subjected to strict quarantine, which has forced companies to diversify their services.
Because of the restrictions on movement decreed in Central American countries, orders in applications dedicated to home delivery have increased considerably.
The services of electronic delivery platforms such as Hugo and Uber Eats, among others, are among the few sectors that will be able to circulate in El Salvador after Nayib Bukele announced on March 21 the home quarantine, which will last 30 days.
In a few days the company DiDi will start operating in the country, an application dedicated to the transport of people and which is already recruiting driving partners.
Next month it will begin operating in the 10, 14 and 4 zones of the capital, an application that will allow its customers to rent electric scooters.
The application by means of which the electric scooters or scooters can be rented is called Bird, and the project that will start with 100 units will be available to the public from December 2019.
The mobile App, which at the beginning was used for home delivery of products, announced that since November 15 it has been carrying out tests to offer the passenger transport service in the capital of the country.
The company plans to compete in the passenger transport market in San Salvador, but in the future, it plans to expand to other cities where Hugo App already has a presence.
DiDi, an application dedicated to the transportation of people, began operating in the country on November 19, offering its services in San José, Cartago, Alajuela, Heredia and Puntarenas.
At the moment, the Chinese mobile application plans to offer in the country the basic passenger transport service, however, the future plans are to provide premium care, which will include higher capacity cars and special vehicles for people with physical disabilities.
In Panama, a bill seeks to regulate messaging services offered through technological platforms, such as UberEats, Appetito 24, Glovo or Domicilio Don Juan.
The platforms of digital messaging services, such as transport activity, will be regulated, according to the essence of Draft Law 179 proposed in the Transport Commission, informed the National Assembly on October 14. See proposal submitted.
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