India, Aug. 2 -- Delhivery plans to launch a network of multi-tenant dark stores for "rapid in city delivery" for ecommerce companies.

During a post-earnings call, Delhivery founder and CEO Sahil Barua said the logistics unicorn will also provide ecommerce companies with delivery services that will shorten the delivery cycle to 2-4 hours.

". the intention is.to launch a network of shared dark store warehousing, which will be available to ecommerce companies to use on a multi-tenant basis, and then to provide a rapid local delivery.," Barua said.

He said that 30-minute or one-hour deliveries are unlikely to disrupt the broader ecommerce space. Only a few "narrow categories", and within that a set of narrow stock keeping units, would req...