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Travelling green from Washington D.C. to Charleston, SC

Posted by Jan Prahm May 6th, 2010

The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) invited me to give a presentation during their “Harbors, Navigation & Environment Seminar and GreenPort Americas 2010” in Charleston May 4 – 6- 2010 about the EFFORTS project, which I happily accepted.
In order to travel from Washington D.C. to Charleston, South Carolina, USA I had decided to take [...]

CO2-footprint of transport becoming critical to win contracts

Posted by Jan Prahm March 11th, 2010

Matthias Wohlfahrt and Tobias Liebscher of BearingPoint, Berlin write in an article in the Deutsche Verkehrs Zeitung (DVZ) of 9 March 2010 that in tenders for logistics services the CO2-footprint of the offered transport services is made more and more often a mandatory information. If the price, quality and service level are equal, the majority [...]

Environmental legislation and emissions trading or How to include transport into the European Emissions Trading Scheme

Posted by Jan Prahm March 3rd, 2010

Last week on 23 February Jan Prahm gave a presentation at the GreenPort Logistics 2010 seminar in Stockholm on the topic of emissions trading and transport. The seminar took place in the run-up to the GreenPort 2010 conference. In his presentation Jan Prahm reflects on the magnitude of CO2 emissions reductions necessary to keep the [...]