Decarbonising Logistics

By reducing order frequency and increasing minimum order quantities (MOQs), there is opportunity to radically reduce emissions and cost, while working with existing transport, fuels, and infrastructure.

Optimising order patterns to reduce case pick (and increase layer and pallet pick) and deliver larger drop sizes, less often, will improve vehicle fill and take trucks off the road.

The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight predicts 34-50% of emissions can be cut out of existing fleets with only improved fleet utilisation.

Figures from the Department for Transport (DfT) have revealed one in three lorries on UK roads run empty and there are over three billion empty miles of travel by HGVs each year.

While retailers have built service offerings around back-haul, there remains significant opportunity for suppliers to identify consolidation opportunities, empty legs and reciprocal flows.

Our decarbonising logistics workgroups will share the latest developments in alternative fuels.

In the near term we will be sharing best practice for using HVO fuel; focusing on longer term strategies, we will also share learnings into the development of Electric and Hydrogen HGVS and charging infrastructure.