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An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport. Opinion Editorial by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Operating Partner at Anchor Group and Mikael Lind, Senior Strategic Research Advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world part 2

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by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Anchor Group & Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). The transport and logistics industry has started to engage differently in the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference. One constant theme in the industry discussion in the logistics and transport industry is thus collaboration.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Anchor Group & Mikael Lind, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs . Part 1–Defining the moment. degrees Celsius,” states the Climate Action Tracker.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design. Robots are everywhere these days.

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Russia’s Arctic Expansion: The Future of Global Shipping

SCMDOJO

Currently, the primary route for transporting goods from Europe to Asia is the Swiss Trade route. As a result, only specialized icebreaking ships can travel through these routes, making the cost of transportation much higher than other shipping routes.

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A Moment of Change – Making the Case for Visibility in Trucking

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Opinion Editorial by Wolfgang Lehmacher , Anchor Group, and Mikael Lind , Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Chalmers University of Technology. It is common knowledge that the adoption of innovative solutions is low in the transportation and trucking sectors. A Moment of Change – Making the Case for Visibility in Trucking.

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Responding to the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The framework covers: freight traffic intensity choice of freight transport mode capacity utilisation energy efficiency switching to low carbon energy There is no “silver bullet” instead a bundle of decarbonisation enablers needs to be activated. Use a ‘five decarbonisation lever’ framework to develop a road map for decarbonisation.