Two Zelostech Z10 vehicles are being tested for multi-level inventory transfer at CEVA’s Blue Hub

CEVA Logistics has launched a pilot using two Zelostech Z10 autonomous electric vehicles at its Blue Hub in Singapore. The vehicles are designed to move pallets, totes, and other inventory across the facility’s multiple floors, using existing ramps to support internal transfer. The deployment reduces the need for diesel trucks for these movements.

CEVA says the pilot is intended to improve operational flexibility, optimize staging-area use and allow inventory transfers to be scheduled more dynamically according to demand.

Singapore Hub Builds on Existing Automation

The Blue Hub is an eight-story facility covering 50,000-square-meter facility. It serves customers in the luxury, beauty, retail, and healthcare sectors and already uses good-to-person systems, automated guided vehicles, and robotics.

The autonomous vehicles extend the hub’s existing automation capabilities to move between floors. By using the facility’s existing ramps, the pilot integrates autonomous vehicles movements into the hub’s current layout.

Pilot Traces Back to 2025 Startup Program

The project stems from the 2025 CMA CGM Startup Awards, co-organized by ZEBOX, the international innovation accelerator of CEVA Logistics’ parent company, CMA CGM Group. Zelostech received funding through the program to develop a proof of concept. The initiative later progressed into a collaboration with CEVA focused on supply chain applications.

The Singapore pilot puts the technology into an operating logistics environment, allowing CEVA to gather data on its use in intro-hub transportation.

Trial Targets Efficiency and Lower Emissions

CEVA says the pilot is expected to improve operational efficiency while making inventory transfers more flexible. Based on current trial results, the company expects the autonomous vehicle solutions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by at least 4,600 kilograms annually.

CEVA estimates the pilot could reduce CO₂ emissions by at least 4,600 kilograms annually. The figure applies to the current trial and does not represent a network-wide emissions reduction. CEVA has not announced a network-wide emissions reduction from the technology. The company is using the Singapore deployment to gather operational insights for potential wider applications.

CEVA Evaluates Potential for Wider Adoption

The pilot is part of CEVA’s broader effort to evaluate emerging technologies that can support safety, efficiency and sustainability across its contract logistics network. The company says insights from the Singapore deployment will inform the potential rollout of autonomous mobility solutions at other facilities.

As of now, the deployment remains limited to the Singapore Blue Hub. The confirmed next step is evaluation, with the result of the pilot expected to help determine whether the technology has a wider role in CEVA’s operations.