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 to consider a charitable tax.

“I’d like to talk a little bit about carbon footprints, and the negative publicity we get for creating, supposedly, 3% of the world’s pollution by transport. Yet we never seem to ...