News / Flexport offers shippers free transport carbon footprint calculator

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Shippers can now assess their carbon footprint in transport via a carbon calculator developed by Flexport.

Open to all companies, not just customers, and free to use, the Flexport calculator has API functionality.

The digital forwarder said companies had struggled to find their total carbon footprint; some have used multiple spreadsheets, others have paid $40,000 for just one year’s worth of data.

Flexport’s solution allows companies to calculate all their logistics carbon emissions using Flexport data or, for non-customers, a public calculator API, ...