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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
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
Book and Claim Community ramps up for a second year of impact with expanded Governing Board and strategic partners
Sep 10, 2024
Amsterdam, September 10, 2024 - Decarbonizing complex supply chains requires innovation and deep collaboration to achieve common objectives. Building momentum to support the emergence and scaling of critical market-based tools for decarbonizing heavy transport, the Book and Claim Community is expanding its Governing Board, adding experienced company practitioners and key NGO allies as strategic partners in its second year.
Smart Freight Centre and Kühne Climate Center Launch Green Freight Support Program in Eastern Africa at Global Logistics Convention 2024
Aug 19, 2024
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 15, 2024 - Smart Freight Centre and Kühne Climate Center officially kicked off the Green Freight Support Program in Eastern Africa at the Global Logistics Convention 2024, held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, aiming to advance logistics decarbonization efforts across the region.