News / Online freight booking sites to help clients go green, adding a carbon calculator

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Shippers with sustainability and environmental targets will soon be able to calculate transport emissions from an increasing number of freight quotation and booking platforms.

Freightos announced today that every shipping service it offers will now have a CO2 footprint estimation.

It is also offering a “suite of free CO2 calculation tools, enabling customers or third-parties to optimise route and mode selection, with live international CO2 footprint calculations”, it said.

As an example, it pointed to a 200kg shipment from Shanghai to London: its transport would produce ...