Your Bike Courier in Berlin.
Carefully Delivered, Personally Accounted For.
Whether a rush delivery, a pickup before closing time, a lab sample or full last-mile fulfillment: in Berlin, every shipment rides by cargo bike, with no traffic jams and no exhaust. For last-mile, for Berlin businesses, labs, pharmacies, roasteries, retail and wholesale, and private customers across the city.
Our couriers are trained, including in dedicated workshops on loading and load securing. And because CROW is a cooperative, it's never just "someone" picking up your package: the courier who picks up your package helps run CROW, not just work for it, and brings that ownership to every delivery.
What we ride for you
Within Berlin we ride by cargo bike, beyond the city and abroad we work with partners. The main services at a glance:
Rush delivery & direct rides
Ordered today, delivered today. One courier from pickup to handover.
More on the city courier →Pharmacies & labs
Lab samples, prescriptions and medication with documented handover. Couriers certified to UN3373.
More on the lab courier →Last-mile & 3PL fulfillment
Storage, picking and delivery from our hub in Kreuzberg.
More on last-mile →Recurring rounds for businesses
Regular rounds at agreed terms, one combined invoice or SEPA.
More on B2B →Where a Car Simply Can't Win
Speed
Studies in London and Brussels show cargo bikes complete up to 60% more stops per hour than delivery vans in city centres. In London they outpace vans by a factor of 1.6: no traffic queues, no parking hunt, no wall of sheet metal in the way.
Parking
No circling the block, no parking fees, no tickets and no blocking the bike lane. Research shows 40% of all van deliveries involve illegal or irregular parking. We stop right at the door, on any side street, any time.
Exhaust
None of our bikes produces exhaust on the road, including the ones with electric pedal assist. An electric van has no tailpipe either, but it needs far more electricity and a large battery made with lithium, cobalt and rare earths that have to be mined somewhere.
Sources: University of Westminster & ITT Hub (2022) · Université Libre de Bruxelles (2022) · Transport & Environment, LCA analysis (2023) · CleanTechnica / Lime & NHTS data (2024)
Estimated emissions avoided
Every cargo bike ride replaces a trip that would otherwise have been made by a motor vehicle. The counters are a model, not a live measurement: we assume a typical month of about 11,350 bike kilometres and count 250 g CO₂ for each kilometre, which is what a diesel van would have emitted on the same route. It is spread the way we ride: full days Monday to Friday, reduced on Saturdays and public holidays, nothing on Sundays. Daily values vary around that average in a fixed pattern.
How we calculate
Companies that count on us
New on the blog
Once a month a co-op member writes a column for the Kreuzberg local paper Kiez und Kneipe. The two latest:
Ride with CROW
Whoever rides with us helps run the business. How we work, what we expect and which positions are open right now is on the jobs page.
The Right Team for Your Request
As a cooperatively run team, we value good, timely and fair communication. That's why we have dedicated teams for different concerns. Pick the right contact below.
Everything at one address, just a short walk from Checkpoint Charlie:
- Office & courier HQ: operations, dispatch and administration at ground level
- 3PL storage & fulfillment center: large, secure, temperature-controlled storage space underground
This central location shortens last-mile routes in every direction across the city and makes inbound and outbound logistics through our 3PL service particularly efficient.