The winners of the Toyota Logistic Design Competition 2026, a global competition that celebrates and brings together students and recent graduates from around the world, have been announced.

The seventh edition of the competition, this year the focus was on logistical challenges across Africa. Participants developed solutions to challenges of this type across four categories – Product Design, Digital Platforms, Business Innovation, and Open Category.

By competing in this way, those involved were looking to address the realities of fragmented logistics networks, last-mile delivery challenges, and limited infrastructure in African contexts.

The winners were:

Open Category

MaternLink – Reva Rajgarah & Tulsi Nyati, Avantika University, Lekoda, India

Considered the overall winner of the competition, MaternLink is a maternal-health logistics system for rural Nigeria that connects mothers, community workers, drivers, and health centres via digital and offline tools to improve emergency transport, improve care coordination, and reduce preventable maternal deaths.

Product Design 

ATTA – Irene Ponteduro & Matteo Marinaro, University of Bologna, Italy

ATTA is a human-powered cargo tricycle with an integrated forklift that was inspired by leaf-cutter ants. It aims to improve banana harvesting, transport and loading in Kenya by increasing efficiency, reducing damage, and strengthening smallholder farmers' livelihoods.

Digital Platforms 

Farm to Table – Gichuki Harrison, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Juja, Kenya

Farm to Table is an app that connects stakeholders in Kenya’s agricultural supply chain to streamline logistics and reduce food waste caused by inefficiencies.

Business Innovation

EveryLink – Sihyung Kim, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea

EveryLink is a community-based hub-and-spoke delivery system that aims to improve last-mile logistics in rural Africa by reducing costs, increasing reliability, and expanding access through local agents and centralised village hubs.