Freight transport 'needs to cut emissions'
Date: 10 October 2007
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A new report has indicated that freight transport contributes more than a fifth (21 per cent) of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from Britain's transport sector.
Freight haulage companies are being urged to cut their emissions by taking steps such as reducing empty running, Transport Intelligence reports.
The report, by the CarbonNeutral Company, estimates that CO2 emissions from freight transport, including HGVs, courier vans, waterway, rail and air, amounts to around 33.7 million tonnes a year.
Together with the government, the consultancy is urging logistics firms to make supply chains 'greener' by reducing empty running, improving the efficiency of operations, reducing vehicle kilometres, and switching to more environmentally friendly forms of transport.
According to government figures, transport as a whole contributed around 24 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions in 2002.
Meanwhile, the Freight Transport Association has stressed that emissions should not be curbed by way of high fuel duty, but rather by improving efficiency.
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