About us
Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is an international non-profit organization focused on reducing the emission impacts of global freight transportation.
Read our 2023 Annual ReportOur Vision
A zero-emission global logistics sector by 2050 or earlier, consistent with 1.5° pathways.
Our Mission
To accelerate the reduction of logistics emissions by fostering collaboration within the global logistics ecosystem.
Our Goal
Mobilize the global logistics ecosystem, in particular our members and partners, in tracking and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to achieve 1.5° pathways.
We achieve our goals by
- Enabling performance measuring of GHG logistics emissions to drive transparency and accountability of organizations.
- Facilitating solution pathways and catalyzing collaboration between logistics stakeholders to share knowledge and create impact together.
- Educating, training, and scaling-up organizations in the logistics sector to accelerate the uptake of decarbonization solutions. This allows our members and partners to accelerate their action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the freight sector and to collectively meet the Paris Climate agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Join the SFC community
Organizations on their journey to freight decarbonization can become a member of the SFC community. Members have access to a wide portfolio of initiatives and projects to help them collaborate to improve their GHG emission performance and supply chain economics.
Explore our membershipsOur programs
Emissions Accounting
Global Logistics Emissions Council
GLEC is our community of organizations and NGOs dedicated to driving widespread, transparent, and consistent calculation and reporting of logistics GHG emissions.
Market Based Measures Program
The Market Based Measures Program enables companies to accelerate freight decarbonization by using a voluntary accounting framework that supports the “book and claim” approach to greenhouse gas reporting.
Road Freight
Fleet Electrification Coalition
The Fleet Electrification Coalition empowers companies to decarbonize their road freight operations faster through collective action. Our main objective is to enable 30% zero-emission truck sales by 2030 and 100% by 2040 globally.
Maritime
Clean Cargo
Clean Cargo is a collaborative partnership between ocean container carriers, freight forwarders, and cargo owners.
Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative
The Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI) is an online platform that promotes responsible ship recycling by enhancing transparency. It serves as a one-stop shop for companies to report information on their policies and practices based on a set of predefined disclosure criteria.
Global Ro-Ro Community
Launched in 2024, Global Ro-Ro Community primarily involves ocean Ro-Ro carriers and cargo owners (OEMs amongst others) and focuses on tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Ro-Ro shipping transportation. The program also shares Ro-Ro Ocean freight decarbonization best practices.
Aviation
Clean Air Transport
Clean Air Transport program aims to unite first movers on sustainable aviation in the freight sector, leveraging increased transparency of the GHG emissions from air freight services to drive decarbonization measures across the air transport sector.
Freight Buyers
Sustainable Freight Buyers Alliance
The Sustainable Freight Buyers Alliance (SFBA) is a collaborative initiative that brings together freight buyers in a joint effort to shift towards zero-emissions freight transport.
Smart Freight Shippers Alliance
The Smart Freight Shippers Alliance (SFSA) China is a group of shippers (or buyers of freight) who work together towards a compliant, efficient, and sustainable China freight sector.
Regional Offices
Smart Freight Centre China
Smart Freight Centre has been operating in China since 2014, with a view to understand how logistics emissions reductions need to be realized by multinational companies operating in emerging economies and given China’s logistics sector is a large and growing contributor to the global GHG emissions.
Smart Freight Centre India
Smart Freight Centre India (SFC India) aims to minimize the climate impact of the freight and logistics sector in India. Targeting one of the world's largest freight markets, SFC India recognizes the urgent need to address the projected increase in CO₂ emissions.