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Smart Freight Week 2025: A Milestone Event Driving Freight Decarbonization
Mar 27, 2025
Amsterdam, March 27, 2025 — Smart Freight Week 2025, held last week, marked a significant step forward in the global effort to decarbonize freight and logistics. Bringing together over 830 attendees, 226 expert speakers, and 20 sponsors, the event featured 63 dynamic sessions, covering emissions reduction, digitalization, policy frameworks, and innovative financing for sustainable logistics.
Reductionist "Reductions" Beware - LETS improve accounting to bolster Book and Claim acceptance
Mar 11, 2025
Book and claim systems help jumpstart logistics decarbonization. Altruism only gets us so far. An organization's value chain-based investments via book and claim must count. Accounting and reporting standards for greenhouse gas emissions are under review, in transportation and beyond, and don't allow for carbon credits. "Netting," or subtracting "reductions". At the same time, transportation accounting has a standard: ISO 14083. If organizations get a little nerdy today, they set the ecosystem up for success tomorrow. When booking or claiming, accounting for the lower emission profile - not the "reduction" - is more consistent with standard logistics accounting, aligns all users of a "market-based" approach, and such standard accounting and alignment might increase the chance book and claim is approved by key reporting and target bodies. End result = more decarbonization.
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.
New Report Highlights Urgent Need for Investment in Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles to Achieve Decarbonization Goals
Sep 25, 2024
Published by Smart Freight Centre and commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, the report underlines Action Needed to Accelerate Growth of Zero-Emission Truck Market with data prepared by BloombergNEF.
Smart Freight Centre Launches New Shipper-Carrier Coalition to Pilot Heavy-Duty EV Charging with Terawatt Along the First Ever US Over the Road Electrified Corridor
Sep 17, 2024
AIT Worldwide, DB Schenker, Maersk, Microsoft, PepsiCo, and Others Join Forces to Refine EV Charging Operations Along Corridor Between Los Angeles and El Paso and Advance Sustainable Transport Ecosystem