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News / Small levy on pallets could revolutionise freight's carbon credentials

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Pallet users should pay a tax, according to one senior freight forwarder.

In a wide-ranging speech at the Logistics CIO Europe conference in Amsterdam this morning, Steve Walker, head of consultancy SWG and founder of SBS Worldwide, bought out by DSV in 2013, urged the industry ...

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  • Joe Alba

    March 11, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Why not a $2 surcharge for plastic wrap and another $1 fee for banding.

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