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SFC's Conformity Assessment Scheme: Ready to assure your Market Based logistics reporting
Apr 01, 2025
Smart Freight Centre launched its Conformity Assessment Scheme to increase trust in GHG emissions reporting in the market. Whenever a company reports its greenhouse gas emissions inventory – be it to customers, investors or other stakeholders – the comfort that an independent third-party verification provides is undeniable. Based on ISO 14083, SFC built a scheme to train, assess and approve Validation and Verification Bodies to do competent assurance engagements in the logistics sector. In 2023, SFC approved the first Validation and Verification Body for verifying GHG emission claims in accordance with ISO 14083 for freight transport: Verifavia. Over the last two years, another three VVBs have joined that first one as Approved for the ISO 14083 scope.
Smart Freight Centre Releases Industry-Standard GHG Calculation Method for Ro-Ro Shipping
Mar 26, 2025
Amsterdam, March 26 - Smart Freight Centre (SFC) hosted the official Global Ro-Ro Community stakeholders’ meeting during its annual flagship event, Smart Freight Week, in Amsterdam on March 18. Global stakeholders involved in the transportation of finished vehicles by sea came together to launch the standard methodology for scope 3 Greenhouse Gas emissions accounting for deep-sea Ro-Ro shipping.
Smart Freight Centre Launches Interpretation Service to Strengthen Transparency and Compliance
Feb 27, 2025
To support organizations in meeting logistics emissions reporting standards, Smart Freight Centre has launched a new Interpretation Service as part of its Conformity Assessment Scheme.
Smart Freight Week 2025: The Future of Logistics is Here
Jan 30, 2025
The future of logistics is here! Smart Freight Week 2025, the leading global event in logistics decarbonization, will take place from March 18–20 at De Kromhouthal in Amsterdam. Smart Freight Week will bring together leaders, innovators, and key stakeholders from across the freight and logistics sector to exchange knowledge, explore innovative solutions, and drive the transition to a zero-emission future.
Smart Freight Centre and FIATA Join Forces to Drive Decarbonization in Global Transport Logistics
Nov 07, 2024
Amsterdam/Geneva, November 7, 2024 – Smart Freight Centre (SFC), a leading global non-profit organization dedicated to reducing climate impacts in the freight sector, and FIATA, International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations, the reference point for international policies and regulations for the freight forwarding and logistics industry, representing over 40,000 logistics firms across 150 territories, signed a partnership agreement on September 26, 2024, at the 2024 FIATA World Congress held in Panama. This collaboration represents a pivotal step in accelerating the decarbonization of transport emissions within the logistics industry, contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Smart Freight Centre and ECG, the Association of European Vehicle Logistics, Partner to Drive Decarbonization in the Finished Vehicle Logistics Sector
Oct 21, 2024
Amsterdam, October 21, 2024 — Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is proud to announce a strategic partnership with ECG, The Association of European Vehicle Logistics, to accelerate the decarbonization of the vehicle logistics industry across Europe.
Smart Freight Centre Introduces Auditable Market Based Measures Specification
Oct 14, 2024
Amsterdam, October 14, 2024 – Today, Smart Freight Centre has taken a significant step forward in enhancing transparency and accountability in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting with the launch of the auditable Market Based Measures Specification for Logistics Emissions Reporting (MBM Specification). The MBM Specification provides organizations with an opportunity to transparently document, report and independently assure their in-value chain, market based activities such as those enabled by a ‘book and claim’ chain of custody. With transport demand expected to double between now and 2050, decarbonization of freight transportation is crucial. To accelerate climate action in today’s global, complex and dynamic supply chains, SFC released the MBM Framework in 2023, as a guidance document supporting value chain partners in the design of their market based approaches to transportation decarbonization. Frequent stakeholder requests for an auditable, normative document to facilitate verification led to the now-published MBM Specification and its inclusion in SFC’s Conformity Assessment Scheme.
Working Together for Green Logistics: Open Logistics Foundation and Smart Freight Centre Join Forces
Sep 09, 2024
Today, open source software and open standards are central to green and sustainable logistics. With this in mind, the Open Logistics Foundation and Smart Freight Centre have decided to join forces: As part of a network partnership, which has now been sealed with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, the two organisations also want to advance zero-emissions logistics in the future jointly. To this end, the sustainability expertise of Smart Freight Centre and the digitalisation expertise of the Open Logistics Foundation are to join forces. The new partnership sends a strong signal to the industry and the market in favour of open source software and open standards. This once again underlines the need for companies to work together.
GMA Trucking Buyers Alliance Aggregates Demand for Zero-Emission Trucking, in Partnership with Smart Freight Centre
Aug 29, 2024
Innovative buyers’ alliance applies a proven model to drive the decarbonization of heavy-duty trucking, seeks input from carriers in designing first collective procurement