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Seko Logistics management reckons it’s time to shift gears to a collective effort on sustainability.
The logistics provider has joined the Sustainable Air Freight Alliance (SAFA), an industry initiative established by BSR, an organisation of sustainable business experts.
SAFA has some 250 members, airlines, forwarders and shippers, looking to jointly press the accelerator on sustainability.
On the shipper side, SAFA boasts membership of the likes of H&M, Hewlett-Packard, Louis Vuitton and Nike, while the airline members reporting their carbon records are Cathay Pacific, ...
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Andy Newbold
April 08, 2021 at 2:56 pmIndeed SAFA has a role to play in the decarbonization of air cargo transportation. However reporting alone will not ‘move the needle’ enough to create real impact.
A broad industry collaboration needs to take place. The real change will come when shippers and forwarders actually move to cancel their CO2e emissions through airline Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) programs such as Air France – KLM Cargo https://www.afklcargo.com/WW/en/common/products_and_solutions/sustainableaviationfuel.jsp
We already saw some major forwarders such as Kuehne+Nagel, Bollore and DB Schenker really stepping up and cancelling their CO2.
More shippers via forwarders need to take the next step from talking and reporting to actually joining the carrier SAF programs to create scale of SAF production, thereby reducing cost, making it easier for everyone to arrive at the optimal position of 75-80% CO2 reduction.
Alex Lennane
April 08, 2021 at 3:13 pmKLM is pioneering in its backing of SAF – and The Loadstar would be delighted to highlight any forwarders / shippers joining your scheme.