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Eco-friendly freight

Following the muddled final outcome of the recent 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15), the international freight transport industry has been left to largely chart its own course towards a more "eco-friendly" future, at least in the medium term.

As has already been well documented, government leaders attending the two-week COP 15 gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the end of last year, failed to reach a legally binding agreement on worldwide emission level reductions. Instead, they adopted a last-minute accord outlining general objectives which individual countries are now being encouraged to sign up to.

That outcome left the international freight transport industry unsure what else it would be required to do, when and where, to meet future worldwide legal environmental requirements.

One of the dangers of that scenario, warn some industry observers, could be a fragmented global environmental legal regime, with resulting “serious market distortions” for sectors such as liner shipping.

Regardless of the outcome of COP 15, European freight industry observers suggest that overall, their sector’s already well and developing general drive to make its operations more eco friendly will continue.

Harm van Brussel, business excellence and sustainability manager for Geodis Wilson, the freight management division of French global logistics group Geodis, maintains it is “quite obvious that the perceived failure of the Copenhagen climate conference does not stop countries or companies from becoming greener”.

“Even if there is no mutual consensus, there is already a lot of national legislation and it is likely to become stricter in the future,” he says. “France, for instance, is putting in place a lot of environmental-friendly regulations, and as a French group we will of course follow those principles.”

Another key driver is the continuing pressure from manufacturing and retail sector customers as they seek to satisfy consumer demand for more environmentally friendly goods. (source: IFW)

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