Subscribe

Tag: sustainability

Forto and Hapag-Lloyd deliver biofuel alternative

Posted on by Keith McKinley

Through a new partnership with Hapag-Lloyd, a leading global liner shipping company, Forto has launched a biofuel programme for ocean shipping customers who seek to reduce their transport emissions. Customers booking full container load (FCL) sea freight shipments with Forto can now add the use of advanced biofuel to their bookings, effectively reducing 100% of their transport’s greenhouse gas emissions. As Hapag-Lloyd has extended its biofuel strategy to work with selected key partners, Forto has delivered the first customer in Hapag-Lloyd’s biofuel programme.

Shipping goods with second- and third-generation biofuel options through Forto and Hapag-Lloyd is designed to make it easy for customers to reduce scope 3 emissions and achieve emission reduction goals. Forto supports customers throughout the process. When selecting a biofuel option, customers receive data-based visibility over the impact of biofuel on sea freight-related greenhouse gas emissions and certificates issued by a third-party monitored process.

Michael Wax, CEO and Co-Founder of Forto, said: “Making the shift away from the logistics industry’s reliance on fossil fuels is an essential step towards a greener future. We see it as our responsibility to continue to deliver transparent and credible solutions that can help our customers navigate this journey as they strive to reduce their environmental impact.

“Hapag-Lloyd has made a decisive investment in a commercially available biofuel product and their sustainability strategy is amongst the boldest steps towards the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the industry.”

Mirja Nibbe, Managing Director Area Germany and Central Europe for Hapag-Lloyd, added: “The biofuel offer for our customers plays an important role as a first step on our journey towards being net-zero. It is through close collaboration between Hapag-Lloyd and our customers to jointly tackle the challenges ahead of us. Thus, we are very happy to work together with Forto on this important topic.”

In November 2021, Hapag-Lloyd announced its new sustainability strategy with the target to be net zero carbon by 2045. As part of Hapag-Lloyd’s commitment to decarbonisation and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the company has announced plans to reduce CO2e intensity (EEOI) of its entire fleet by 30% by 2030 as compared with 2019.

The new Forto biofuel initiative is the next step in the company’s strategy to drive transformation towards sustainable supply chains, with the ultimate goal of helping customers make the sustainable transport option their default choice. Forto’s range of sustainability solutions starts by providing customers with emissions visibility and information that empowers them to make impactful data-based decisions.

In addition to the biofuel programme, Forto offers CO₂e emission offsets for all modes of transport, and German-based Rail Pre- and On-Carriage intermodal volumes are transported using trains powered by renewable energy. The commitment to sustainable transport offerings is reinforced with the company’s own investments on top of those of the customers. Forto teams are trained to work together strategically with partners, customers and other stakeholders to explore sustainability options and find solutions that fit their needs.

 

SSI Schaefer awarded as ÖKOPROFIT company

Posted on by David Priestman

Protecting the environment and climate, reducing operating costs, and optimally preparing one’s company for the challenges of the future – this is the basic idea of ÖKOPROFIT, a cooperation project between municipalities, local business and local partners. After a year of intensive testing and consulting by the expert network, the participating companies, including SSI Schaefer / Fritz Schäfer GmbH at the Neunkirchen site, received their awards in June.

The intralogistics expert is consistently pushing ahead with its sustainability strategy. Its focus is on the expansion of sustainable intralogistics for customers as well as its own sustainability. Steffen Bersch (pictured), CEO of the SSI Schaefer Group: “Sustainability, as we understand it, is an interlocking of social commitment, ecology and economic viability. Sustainable management and ecological action ensure the future viability of our company. This holistic approach defines SSI Schaefer’s sustainability strategy.”

The award as an ÖKOPROFIT company now confirms that the company has a practicable and efficient environmental management system at its headquarters in Neunkirchen. The environmental program set up by SSI Schaefer includes measures such as reinvesting in an energy-efficient compressor station, replacing diesel-powered forklifts with electric forklifts and switching the energy supply to green electricity.

The SSI Schaefer Group’s sustainability report will be published shortly, which will provide an overview of the international measures within the sustainability strategy.

ScottishPower ponders hydrogen hub at Felixstowe

Posted on by Keith McKinley

ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe – with the potential to decarbonise industry and transportation in the region.

Both companies have set out their vision to help create a greener port, which could provide clean fuel for customers at Britain’s busiest container port.

Plans are being developed to use green hydrogen for onshore purposes, such as road, rail and industrial use, with the potential to create liquid forms, such as green ammonia or e-methanol. This could, in turn, provide clean fuels for shipping and aviation, and create opportunities for cost-effective export to international markets.  The project aims to continue engineering and site development works to align with customer demand from 2025 onwards.

Being ‘homemade’, green hydrogen has clear benefits for the security of UK energy supply and is a safe, long-term energy solution that could be vital for those who cannot decarbonise their operations through renewable electricity alone.

As well as accelerating the potential for cleaner industrial processes at the port, green hydrogen is poised to transform the heavy transport sector, which is a significant emitter of the UK’s current carbon emissions.

Barry Carruthers, Hydrogen Director at ScottishPower, said: “This strategically important project could potentially create a clean fuels hub that could unlock nationally significant decarbonisation for the region, as well as playing a role in international markets. It’s perfectly located not far from our existing and future offshore windfarms in the East Anglia region, and demonstrates how renewable electricity and green hydrogen can now start to help to decarbonise road, rail, shipping and industry.”

Dr Therese Coffey MP, local MP for Suffolk Coastal, said: “I warmly welcome Hutchison Ports’ and Scottish Power’s joint plans to explore opportunities for a large-scale hydrogen hub at the Port of Felixstowe, providing green fuel at the UK’s largest container port. It’s schemes like this – and investment from industry as well as government – which is crucial for us to reach net zero by 2050.”

 

 

Sustainability sacrificed in race towards tech

Posted on by Keith McKinley

The transport and logistics industry has work to do when it comes to sustainability, writes Stefan Spendrup, VP of Sales, Northern and Western Europe at SOTI. The sector became the largest emitting sector in 2016, and in 2019, it was still producing the same amount of emissions as it was in 2011 – and remains so to this day. Worldwide collaboration is happening to tackle how pollutive this industry is, but even if current and committed policies were to succeed, transport’s carbon emissions would still grow almost 20% by 2050. Highly ambitious policies could cut these emissions by 70% – but not to zero.

But there is also another trend affecting logistics, and many other industries too – and this is e-wastage, caused by the unnecessary disposal of electronics that are in perfect working order. The usual cause of this, according to SOTI’s research, is the perceived need for the latest technologies on the market. And with many logistics companies constantly turning to technology to further digitise their operations, such as 40% of companies offering a more digitised paperless delivery experience and 46% of companies have implemented automatic routing on new digital devices to help save resources and fuel, more hardware is entering the industry all the time. Optimising device’s lifetimes is another important step in tackling the current level of e-wastage being produced.

While device replacement is inevitable, nearly seven in 10 IT leaders of international corporations believe businesses are unnecessarily and prematurely disposing of digital devices. In the logistics and transport sector, tablets are the most popular digital device to streamline green supply chains, complete automated rerouting and deliver new jobs, but they are also amongst the most common devices to be disposed of unnecessarily.

The Need to Stay Ahead

SOTI’s research discovered 56% of IT leaders agree device management is an extremely important environmental issue but not enough is being done to tackle the problem. With global landfills filling up, businesses discarding devices unnecessarily will only amplify the problem. Many IT leaders acknowledge they replace their mobile phones, tablets, laptops and sometimes printers when a newer model enters the market or the device warranty expires. Further exacerbating the negative impact of e-waste, some companies believe having the latest mobile technology hardware makes their organisation more attractive for employees (62%).

Devices are not thrown away accidentally. Societal attitudes about personal technology encourage individuals to regularly replace their devices with the newest model or version on the market. For businesses, it should not be this simple. Both individuals and businesses should not dispose of mobile technologies to acquire a newer model, when the battery dies or because there is an expectation a battery will need replacing soon.

Over 34% of companies are changing devices after employees request an upgrade. This needs to stop if the amount of commercial e-waste is to be reduced. Business innovation is paramount, but not at the cost of unnecessarily disposing of and replacing devices. Businesses are sacrificing sustainability targets and wasting money.

Moving Towards A New Age

While some organisations have considerable financial resources dedicated to device replacement, very few corporate budgets are dedicated to extending the lifespan of devices. There are many cost-effective and sustainable ways to monitor and extend a device’s lifespan. The idea that replacing older devices with the most up-to-date devices attracts potential recruits or clients does not mean better business efficiency if the technology is not fully integrated with existing systems.

SOTI’s report shows 59% of companies have dedicated Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) strategies to maximise the potential of their devices, but companies are not reaping the benefits of these solutions. EMM strategies can monitor device lifespan, downtime and battery life. More than 90% of IT leaders said their organisation’s devices have replaceable batteries. With these strategies, IT leaders can monitor a device’s battery and replace it when necessary for significantly less than the cost of replacing the hardware.

Battery recycling is becoming more advanced and widely available. Companies can continue to update devices without contributing to the global e-waste problem. With the ongoing global supply chain crisis, companies cannot obtain new technologies as easily as they previously could, so proper integration and device management is crucial. EMM strategies are even more critical in today’s market where organisations feel obligated to stay at the forefront of new technologies. They enable a company to stay up-to-date and in-line with its sustainability targets.

CLICK HERE to download a copy of SOTI’s inaugural sustainability report Reduce, Reuse, Rethink: From Discard Mentality to Tech Sustainability.

 

 

STILL installs e-chargers at HQ

Posted on by David Priestman

The Hamburg-based intralogistics provider STILL is currently building 20 charging stations for electric vehicles at its headquarters on Berzeliusstraße in Hamburg. The highlight: not only will the company fleet’s electric vehicles be charged there in future, but employees and visitors will also be able to use this charging facility for their private vehicles.

“Electrifying!” – the slogan of the Hamburg-based intralogistics provider STILL will take on a whole new meaning in the future. That is, when the 20 charging stations for e-cars that are currently under construction go into operation in August.

“In fact, we will not only use the new charging stations for our increasingly electrically driven company vehicle fleet but will also offer our employees and our visitors a charging option as a very special service. We are particularly thinking of employees who do not have charging facilities at home. We want to make it possible for them to switch to an emission-free vehicle,” says Stefan Sanny, who is responsible for facility management at STILL.

However, building the first charging points was only the first step for STILL. “This is just the first part of an overall project by STILL, with which we have now created the infrastructural and procedural possibilities for gradually equipping other sites with electric charging points. In this way, we not only want to enable the conversion of our own vehicle fleet, but also motivate our employees to switch to electric vehicles.”

In the medium term, it will also be possible to include suitable wallbox chargers at home for the service van fleet and company cars for employees in the STILL charging infrastructure.

STILL uses “green” electricity

STILL obtains the electricity required for the charging stations – like the rest of its electricity – from “green” sources. “This means that we are making a real contribution to reducing CO2 emissions with our new charging stations,” says Stefan Sanny. The charging points can be used with the usual charging cards – and STILL employees can even benefit from special rates. Charging is carried out according to the ‘fair-use principle’. This means that charging is only carried out when and for as long as necessary so that charging points are always available.

“We will closely observe how our new offer is made use of. If it proves successful, we have the option of building another 24 charging stations at the same location,” concludes Stefan Sanny.

Shypple forms green partnership with Value Maritime

Posted on by Keith McKinley

Digital freight forwarding platform Shypple has formed a partnership with Value Maritime as a part of its sustainability mission: a clean future for the shipping industry. The initiative with Value Maritime supports Shypple’s clients in reducing their ecological footprint with a Filtree and Carbon Capture system. These services are available to Shypple users by September 2022.

There are 60,000 power-driven vessels around the world right now. It’s impossible to change all of these to battery power overnight. Together with Value Maritime, Shypple offers an immediate option for cleaner shipping with the ambition to have a Filtree and Carbon Capture system installed on hundreds of vessels by 2025.

Value Maritime’s Filtree System filters sulfur, fine dust, and CO₂ from the exhaust gasses of vessels. The CO₂ is stored on the vessels in CO₂ batteries. These batteries are discharged at ports afterwards to be transported to the greenhouses that re-use the CO₂, to grow their crops, which is particularly relevant to Shypple’s perishable customers.

“The industry needs solutions now, not in the future. That is what we can provide at Value Maritime today, retrofitting vessels to be greener and much more sustainable. Our solution is available for installation on most  ship types immediately. It’s great to see a growing interest in sustainable solutions as carriers increase their efforts to contribute to a better environment,” says Maarten Lodewijks, Director and Co-founder of Value Maritime.

The shipping industry emits around 940 million tonnes of CO₂ every year. About 80% of the world’s trade comes by sea. As an innovative digital freight platform, Shypple takes the lead to reduce the footprint of the sector and  make a positive impact. Additional solutions and insights help the platform’s clients to simplify their logistics and reduce their environmental pollution.

Shypple believes it is important to improve the accessibility of cleaner shipping options. Shypple already provides users with accurate CO₂ numbers for every shipment and encourages their clients to join a reforestation programme to offset carbon emissions, or ship their goods with biofuel.

“We’re happy to announce this partnership as part of our commitment to a more equitable shipping industry,” says Jarell Habets, CEO and founder of Shypple. “We cannot ignore the social and environmental impact of global transportation. At Shypple, we stimulate our customers to reduce their ecological footprint, and thanks to this initiative with Value Maritime we tackle the problem right at the core. We share their ambition as a young, innovative, and sustainable-minded organisation that wants to innovate the industry with positive impact.”

The digital platform provides more transparency and green solutions to its users. Whether it is digital sustainability insights or additional instalments that make cargo journeys more environmentally friendly.

CLICK HERE to watch the video.

 

RCP launches new sustainability vision and roadmap

Posted on by Keith McKinley

Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC (RCP), part of the Newell Brands global portfolio of brands, has launched its brand sustainability vision with a roadmap outlining global, tangible pledges the organisation is making as it continues its journey toward operating as sustainably as possible.

As of 2019, 59% of businesses claimed to have internal sustainability initiatives in place. Pressured by their customers and staff into being demonstrably ‘green’, without transparency and clear definitions of ‘green’, confusion about which practices are actually sustainable can frustrate businesses and consumers alike.

Scientists are increasingly focusing on what effect humans are having on extinction rates, the legacy of acid rain is manifest in acidic oceans and particles of plastic can now be found in human blood. People see these news stories every day and are pressuring businesses to do more.

Through its Love Sustainability Journey, RCP is creating transparent conversation around sustainable practices and goals. The Love Sustainability Journey charts a plan for progress.

“Our Love Sustainability Journey is the first step to engaging our customers, regarding everything that Rubbermaid Commercial Products is doing globally to ensure we operate as sustainably as we can,’’ explained Mike McDermott, CEO of the Commercial Group at Newell Brands.

RCP is dedicated to being part of a concerted sustainability effort across the business world not just through its products, but through vital education and sustainability tools.

As a global leader in the design, manufacturing and delivery of cleaning, hygiene and waste management products, RCP has a significant sustainability role to play at both ends of the process: protecting resources and reducing waste.

Mapping a path across five key areas – Products, Certification and Innovation, Packaging, Operations, Culture and Education – the Sustainability Journey begins the important process of outlining how RCP and other businesses can make incremental gains.

Identifying quantifiable and clear targets is key to RCP’s approach. In addition to aligning itself with Newell Brands’ Corporate Citizenship Goals, RCP is also committing to developing and tracking goals specifically related to its product portfolio, and the associated operations, packaging and certification.

Newell Brands’ packaging goals, for example, include a 2025 target for 100% of direct-sourced paper-based packaging to come from certified, verified or recycled sources.  This specific goal sits alongside six key sustainability actions for product design, which include ‘system efficiency’, supporting the reduction of resource waste throughout each phase of a product’s lifecycle.

Developing long-lasting products is also central to RCP’s Sustainability Journey. McDermott continued: ‘’RCP has a heritage of developing highly durable products that stand the test of time. This equates to less re-manufacture, less transport and less storage than lower quality alternative products that frequently need replacing. All of which is better for the planet. We know, as a manufacturing business, we can’t stop there.’’

Reducing waste to landfill by 90% is another ambitious Newell Brands 2025 target, which RCP plans to support at its own operations locations.

These tangible goals are underscored by RCP‘s Culture and Education Journey target to hold itself to account by issuing its first Sustainability Annual Report in 2023.  A very real way of monitoring progress, the Culture and Education Journey ensures that the team has a shared understanding of RCP’s sustainability goals: environmental education plays a vital role across the organisation.

McDermott concluded: “Newell’s Values constitute Truth, Transparency, Teamwork and Trust, all of which we intend to provide through our journey.

“Investing in sustainable solutions is not only the right thing to do, but is imperative to the long-term value and viability of our resources, our people, our communities and our business.”

CLICK HERE to download The Love Sustainability Journey.

 

 

Tech to Navigate the Aftermath of Supply Chain Crisis

Posted on by Keith McKinley

By Stefan Spendrup, VP of Sales, Northern and Western Europe at SOTI.

The supply chain is a complex system many of us rarely think about when shelves are fully stocked and delivery vehicles are on the road. However, many of us experienced the impact of disruptions to transportation and logistics (T&L) at one point or another during the pandemic.

There were numerous contributing factors to the emergence of the global crisis. First, businesses struggled to anticipate and react to the pandemic due to a limited view of supply chains. In fact, 72% of companies faced challenges in monitoring their end-to-end supply chain. Without having an overview of the location and status of inventory, or the ability to forecast customer demand to prepare for a surge in sales, businesses could not react quickly enough and plan the right course of action.

On top of this, businesses struggled with both sourcing and receiving products. With such high dependence on China for the manufacturing of products around the world, businesses experienced a shortage of products and loss of sales because of the inability to fulfil customer needs as it became harder to import goods from China. In the U.S., 60% of businesses experienced delays in receiving orders from China.
Additionally, products were stranded at sea on cargo ships due to maritime mobility issues. This was detrimental as 80% of all goods are carried by sea, resulting in over 320 cargo ships left queued and waiting to dock. Faced with the pressure to keep up with customer demand, businesses battled increased shipping costs – the cost to transport a shipping container from China to the North American West Coast is now four times higher than before the pandemic.

As the U.S. announces its plans to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region in response to forced labour outrages, many manufacturers and retailers are bracing for the consequent disruptions to supply chains and having to quickly switch to alternative suppliers to satisfy customer demand and meet sales targets.

To protect and prevent further disruptions to supply chains, businesses must implement plans to fix the broken links. This involves intensifying supply chain diversity by having multiple options when it comes to suppliers, such as procuring raw materials, manufacturing, warehouse storage and shipping. However, supply chain resilience is just as important in the reaction to a disruption.

Despite the disruptions and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, businesses still have faith in the supply chain. In fact, 92% of businesses did not halt technology investments. Technology is the only answer to increasing diversity and digitising the supply chain, but how will it be restored to pre-pandemic efficiencies?

The pandemic completely changed consumer shopping behaviours, evidenced by the unpredictable rise in purchases of items like toilet paper and a spike in hobby items such as puzzles and gardening tools. However, rather than using unreliable past trends to predict consumer behaviours, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can help direct companies on everything from inventory recommendations to distribution strategies to suppress the impact of future crises.

Sustainability has been at the forefront of many business models as the world moves closer to sustainability targets. Sustainability efforts were paused during the pandemic, where the focus shifted to operating as close to business as usual at the cost of using sustainable resources. As we emerge from the pandemic, sustainability is back atop business agendas.
Warehouses are integrating timers to control lighting, heat, water, gas and temperature, and road freights have adopted sensors on trucks to monitor tire pressure and fuel efficiency. Automation can predictively schedule vehicle maintenance to keep that part of the supply chain as green as possible.

The pandemic led to mass unemployment, resulting in key transportation and delivery links lacking staff. For example, the U.S. trucking industry is short 80,000 drivers, but many people who lost employment across a range of industries due to COVID-19 are now looking to move into the trucking sector. To better manage the recruitment process, technology can be used to attract, screen and retain talent that matches vacant roles.

Amid a spike in demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks, face shields and medical equipment like ventilators, 3D printers were able to manufacture these essential items and supply health services.

Mobile barcoding stepped up as a reliable practice during the pandemic. Workers across the industry used outdated manual processes, such as filling out forms with a pen. Instead, mobile barcoding has protected workers who are mindful of social distancing by digitally capturing the data so it can be shared accurately and efficiently, eliminating in-person contact and preventing further complications.
Digitising is the Future

The pandemic accelerated the adoption of technology, with 36% of executives saying COVID-19 accelerated the digital transformation of their supply chains. Such digital transformations are here to stay, and as businesses rely on processes such as mobile device deployment, rapid app development, incident management, operational intelligence and the management of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, they must find more ways to digitise processes and protect themselves from future crises by using technology to locate devices, remotely solve issues and access critical device data.

Transporeon rolls out Carbon Visibility tool

Posted on by Keith McKinley

After successful Alpha and Beta stages, Transporeon – a leading European Transportation Management Platform – is rolling out its pioneering Carbon Visibility tool to all customers worldwide.

Through an automatic update on the Transporeon platform, every Transporeon customer will now have access to functionality that can transparently and efficiently measure, reduce, report and benchmark the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from their transports. This value-added service is provided as an integral part of all transports executed and processed via Transporeon and is accessible to all customers on its platform

Any transports from third-party sources can also be uploaded to the platform in order to have all global transports reported in a single source of the truth. Transporeon’s Carbon Visibility dashboard calculates CO2 emissions across all modalities and transport flows.

Transporeon says the benefits of its Carbon Visibility Dashboard include:

  • An holistic four-step approach enables measuring, benchmarking, reducing and reporting in parallel
  • Calculation builds on real-time and primary data, making Transporeon the first provider of primary data for CO2 calculation on the market at large scale
  • An interactive dashboard and actionable insights in one application
  • Automated measurement of Scope 3 emissions well-to-wheel, bottom-up, transport by transport, fully compliant with the GLEC framework

“The accurate tracking and reporting of current emissions – along with the ability to manage future emissions – is vital to enabling a more sustainable supply chain. For quick progress on the road to climate-neutral commercial transport, digitalisation will be a game-changer,” says Transporeon’s CEO Stephan Sieber. “All our customers require visibility on their carbon emissions, with the addition of this vital feature we’re giving all customers in our network the ability to make smarter, ‘greener’ decisions based on real-time, accurate data.

 

GRYN launches global carbon footprint calculator

Posted on by Keith McKinley

Calculating the carbon footprint of supply chains is for instance in the EU a legal requirement from 2023. The problem: manufacturers, suppliers, freight forwarders and other service providers involved have no or insufficient insight into the associated data. GRYN provides transparency here with its open platform based on artificial intelligence. GRYN is launching a network that allows all players in the logistics market to analyse the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible.

GRYN offers a one-stop solution that is open to all sides. In the network, manufacturers and shippers, shipping companies, airlines, parcel service providers and other partners can link their parameters via interfaces (APIs). With its AI platform, GRYN generates high-quality supply chain and sustainability data from this and provides reportings. This way, suppliers and carriers finally gain insight into the data and automated data management. Thanks to global benchmarks and suggestions for improvement, companies can systematically reduce their CO2 emissions.

The EU regulation, which will be in place from 2023, applies to companies with 250 or more employees and thus to 55,000 companies. The regulations and the GRYN solution come up against a highly fragmented and inefficient €350bn market with structural deficits; especially technologically:

The top five haulers in the EU (road) represent less than 5% of the market

  • 50% of trucks drive half-empty (EU)
  • 33% of truck journeys take place empty (EU)
  • 400,000 companies registered in the EU own only ten or fewer trucks

GRYN founder and CEO Oliver Ritzmann (pictured) has been active in the logistics sector for a long time. Sustainability is close to his heart. Within the competition, he sees GRYN in pole position. On the start in the European market, he says: “We connect manufacturers and suppliers with forwarders and service providers in a unique technology. We see strong market opportunities in this, especially since the growth potential is enormous. Our goal is to become the world’s largest network for sustainable logistics.

“Something has to happen! After all, worldwide freight transport accounts for 8% of global CO2 emissions, and including logistics locations, the figure is as high as 11%. At the same time, transport demand is set to triple, which would double emissions by 2050. To ensure that this does not happen, GRYN offers its platform. With our automatic reports, the data and suggestions for improvement, forwarders and carriers become more efficient. Suppliers can thus digitally map the entire value chain. This not only reduces their CO2 emissions, but also makes them more competitive.”

GRYN is now launching its platform – and thus tackling the “proof of concept”. This PoC- phase is supported by two leading global companies. The goal is to welcome more than 6,000 members to gryn.ai by the end of the year. Large logistics companies that want to directly share emissions with all customers via gryn.ai to automate reporting are already on board for the launch of the platform.

Through GRYN Community data, GRYN will use artificial intelligence to anonymously aggregate GRYN Members in the next phase to achieve consolidation effects through network optimisation. Through mode switching, for example from road to rail, or load optimisation, CO2 can be saved to a considerable extent.

In addition, GRYN ZERO will be launched in late summer of this year to give all transport service providers and shippers the opportunity to offer CO2-neutral transports through offsetting. Here, too, GRYN is building on an innovative certificate chain and a carbon pricing standard in logistics.

Subscribe

Get notified about New Episodes of our Podcast, New Magazine Issues and stay updated with our Weekly Newsletter.