GIVENTIS INTERNATIONAL BV

Their core work

Giventis International is a Dutch consultancy specialising in collaborative logistics and supply chain integration. Based in Papendrecht, they help shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers design trust-based networks where freight flows, data, and planning are shared across companies that would traditionally compete. Their contribution sits at the intersection of business-model design, change management, and digital information exchange — translating technical logistics platforms into working commercial arrangements between partners.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Across both H2020 projects (2015-2019), Giventis worked on the same underlying problem: how logistics actors share information and benefits without losing competitive position. NEXTRUST centred on trust and collaboration between shippers and carriers; AEOLIX broadened this into the data-layer question of how logistics IT systems interoperate across Europe. The progression shows a clear move from organisational collaboration towards its digital infrastructure — from "can we work together" to "how do our systems talk to each other".

They are moving from soft-side logistics collaboration into the digital backbone that makes such collaboration scalable, which makes them a relevant partner for data-space, freight-platform, and multimodal corridor initiatives.

How they like to work

Giventis participates as a partner inside large, multi-country transport consortia rather than leading projects themselves. With 77 distinct partners across 17 countries in just two projects, they plug into sizeable European logistics coalitions alongside shippers, carriers, IT vendors, and research institutes. This makes them a useful non-threatening consortium member — they bring consultancy insight on collaboration without competing with the technology vendors or logistics operators around the table.

Connected to 77 consortium partners across 17 countries, with a European footprint anchored in Dutch logistics and supply-chain networks. Their collaborations cluster around mainland European freight corridors rather than any single national market.

What sets them apart

Most H2020 transport partners are either technology vendors or research institutes; Giventis is neither — they are a small Dutch consultancy that specialises in the human and commercial side of logistics collaboration. If a consortium is building a freight data platform or a corridor-wide collaboration scheme, they bring the know-how to make shippers and carriers actually adopt it. That "make collaboration stick" role is uncommon and hard to replace with academic or IT partners.

Highlights from their portfolio

• AEOLIX
  Their largest H2020 engagement (EUR 2.1M), addressing one of the core EU transport-policy problems: fragmented logistics IT across operators and borders.
• NEXTRUST
  A flagship collaborative-logistics project where the entire research question — trust between supply-chain actors — sits squarely inside Giventis' consultancy domain.