Library
Welcome to SFC’s Library
The SFC Library is your central resource for a wide range of documents essential for understanding and applying our standards and practices. Here, you will find guidance and normative documents, as well as reports, whitepapers, templates, forms, procedures, and other key publications that support sustainable freight management. All of our materials are protected by copyright, and while we allow their use in certain circumstances, we retain full rights over their content.
Most uses of SFC guidance documents do not require specific permission from us, provided acknowledgment of the source is made. This document indicates which use of our guidance documents require written permission from us.
The use of SFC normative (indicated with “specification” in title) documents is more controlled, particularly for Validation and Verification Bodies - VVBs. The rules for their use are described in the same document mentioned above.
Charging Needs for Fleet Electrification: Real World Data Perspective on AFIR
This publication analyzes real-world freight data from shippers engaged in SFC’s EU corridor electrification projects to assess how well current and planned charging infrastructure under AFIR supports road freight electrification. It identifies key gaps in infrastructure coverage and pricing, and provides data driven recommendations to enable operationally and commercially viable zero emission trucking.
Technical Note 2 - From Demonstration to Deployment at Scale:Impact of Zero-Emission Freight Corridor on the Grid and Role of Regulatory Landscape
This technical note is the second in a series on scaling up zero-emission freight in India through corridor electrification. This note focuses on the charging infrastructure, including the corresponding energy needs and grid readiness, and the challenges of scaling it up for the Bengaluru–Mumbai corridor.
Clean Cargo Methodology Update 2025: Transitioning from Assumed to Actual Data in Ocean Freight Emissions
Clean Cargo has updated its methodology to calculate ocean freight emissions using actual carrier-reported transport activity (TEU-km) data at vessel level instead of a standardized 70% vessel utilization assumption. This change improves the accuracy and credibility of emissions data but introduces a break in comparability between 2024 and 2025 values. As a result, reported emission intensities for 2025 may appear higher or lower depending on actual reported TEU-km relative to the previous 70% assumption. These changes are methodology-driven and do not necessarily reflect changes in operational performance.
Financing the Zero-Emission Truck Transition: 5 Lessons to Accelerate ZET Adoption through Accessible Finance
This white paper summarizes the discussion from the session “Powering the Shift: Unlocking Financial Pathways for ZET Adoption,” convened by Smart Freight Centre India at Smart Freight Week, held in Amsterdam in April 2026. The most productive conversation was not about trucks. It was about who pays for them. The session, brought together fleet operators, lenders, battery data specialists, and policy researchers. Based on SFC India’s internal estimates using PSA adoption figures, India’s ZET financing requirement could exceed USD 600 million by 2030. The diagnosis was clear: the trucks are increasingly ready; the commercial frameworks that would fund them at scale are not. The gap is most visible in public-sector banks. Government banks sit among the lowest-cost sources of capital in the Indian credit market but are largely absent from EV truck financing. Fleets rely on non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) at higher rates and less favorable terms. The white paper includes five lessons from the discussion.
Agentic AI in Logistics: From Data Infrastructure to Operational Intelligence
Agentic AI is rapidly becoming a competitive differentiator in logistics. The size of the supply chain management software utilizing agentic AI capabilities is expected to grow over a 5-year horizon by more than 2500% to a total of $53 billion. Yet the gap between expectation and operational reality remains wide. This paper argues that a determining factor in whether an AI deployment succeeds or fails is not AI itself, but the underlying data: its availability, quality, and the processes and standards governing it. AI does not replace the need to access high-quality data, shared standards, and appropriate governance principles. It makes all three more urgent. Organizations that invest in these foundations now will be best positioned to capture the competitive advantages from agentic AI.
2025 Global Ocean Container Emissions Report
The emission performance information presented in this report is calculated according to the Clean Cargo methods for a series of Clean Cargo ocean container transportation trade lanes. For 2025, there were 18 reporting Clean Cargo carriers. These carriers were responsible for more than 85% of global ocean container freight capacity (by volume).