Tuesday, November 2, 2010

What is Green Logistics?

‘Green Logistics’ is the modern transportation systems in which improve the cost, efficiency and reliability of freight and passenger transport systems with environmentally concerns or friendly. In other words, it means “Environmentally-friendly and efficient transport and distribution system, quoted from Green Logistics (The Paradox of) research by Jean-Paul, Brian Slack and Claude Comtois. The ‘Green Logistics’ is a the CO2 emission from the transportation system but how this can be happen as we know the effective operating cost for freight is using diesel and about the efficiency and reliability is to manage it in systematic order with the profound in technologies. 

The Green Logistics is the modern transportation system to improve the cost, efficiency and reliability of freight and passenger transport system with the environment concern.  The Green Logistics footprint focus on the efficiency of freight movement related to externalities and cost effectiveness. 



For now, the transports sector has contributed 97% emission of CO2 which identify have reconstruction of greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere.   An increase of transportation needs will versus the reducing of CO2 in meeting Malaysia commitment to reduce 40% emission by year 2020 from 2005 level. The Green Logistics footprint provides an opinion on the Green Supply Chain initiative with effective solution in managing the logistics sector together with the environment concern.

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