News / Metro joins top forwarders offering shippers emissions monitoring and offsets

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Helping shippers achieve sustainability – a new, key demand – is no longer solely in the hands of major multinational forwarders.

Yesterday Metro Shipping, based in Birmingham, UK, led the way for independent forwarders as it launched an in-house-developed programme to help customers measure, reduce and offset their CO2 emissions.

The free-to-use MVT ECO module, a cloud-based SaaS, monitors emissions  – and their costs – for every consignment in every mode, and enables shippers to choose how, or if, to offset them.

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