Large shippers urge logistics providers to report emissions data

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Logistics companies’ environmental performance – specifically their CO2 emissions data – has now become so important to large shippers that it can win or lose major freight contracts for suppliers.

The issue of carbon emissions in supply chains has moved so far up the agenda of the world’s major shippers that freight service providers’ environmental performance is increasingly a decisive factor in the awarding of contracts, according to Dexter Galvin, head of supply chain at the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a non-governmental ...