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REDUCE
Expert consultation on route optimisation, intermodal logistics, and low-carbon fuels to minimise emissions.
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Carbon Reduction Consultancy
With access to a wide network, we can help businesses rethink their supply chain to lower emissions. Through expert consultation, we identify opportunities for reduction and provide intermodal logistics and low-carbon fuel solutions.
By optimising transport modes and integrating carbon-friendly alternatives, we enable businesses to cut their carbon footprint while maintaining efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Expert Guidance
What We Offer
A meeting with our team of experts in logistics and sustainability. They will get to know your business and supply chain, and understand your business goals about sustainability. This will be followed up with a supply chain review to pinpoint inefficiencies and uncover sustainable solutions.
This will include a detailed plan of alternative routes, lower carbon fuels and intermodal logistics. Our consultants will guide you on actionable steps to take and a long-term plan to help make your logistics carbon smart.
Our Approach
We collaborate with your business to deeply understand your supply chain and analyse your current transport emissions across all modes.
We identify both immediate opportunities and long‑term areas for improvement, ensuring quick wins and sustainable progress.
Together, we develop tailored decarbonisation plans that align with your sustainability targets, operational requirements and brand values.
We will then implement these strategies across your logistics network, working collaboratively to find proactive, practical solutions that drive real CO₂ reduction, all while supporting your wider business goals.
The Impact
Achieve measurable progress towards your sustainability and business goals.
Reduce transport carbon emissions without compromising on efficiency or cost-effectiveness.
Build a future‑ready, low‑carbon supply chain that strengthens your brand and prepares you for tomorrow’s challenges.
The fastest entry point towards decarbonisation
The SFN’s Reduce consult is all about uncovering such opportunities in customers’ supply chains, bringing those opportunities to life with our rich internal know-how and realising actual, long lasting CO2e savings.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The carbon reduction process typically starts with a detailed analysis of your current supply chain emissions, looking at all transport modes, routes and fuel types. Next, we identify both quick wins (like consolidating loads or switching part of a rail network) and long‑term strategies (such as integrating low‑carbon fuels to parts of the network).
From there, a tailored decarbonisation plan is developed to align with your sustainability targets, business priorities and customer expectations. Finally, these strategies are put into action, continuously monitored, refined and reported on to ensure real, measurable CO₂ reductions without sacrificing efficiency or cost‑effectiveness.
Our plan is bespoke to work around you, and you can choose how much or little you’d like our involvement.
Through our Reduce product, we work closely with your business to analyse your current supply chain, identify inefficiencies and uncover opportunities to cut emissions. This includes optimising transport modes, integrating low‑carbon fuels and offering intermodal logistics solutions, all without compromising on cost or efficiency.
If we cannot find integration opportunities for now, we can still help you to hit your sustainability targets through our Remove product and develop a longer-term plan to decarbonise your supply chain.
Intermodal logistics combines different transport modes, like rail, sea and road, to move goods more efficiently. Using rail or sea for longer distances can significantly reduce CO₂ emissions compared to road or air alone, helping businesses build a lower‑carbon, more sustainable supply chain.
No. We help identify quick wins as well as long‑term improvements. This could mean small adjustments, like consolidating loads, switching part of a route to rail, or using low‑carbon fuels, that together deliver meaningful carbon reduction while keeping your supply chain running smoothly.
We understand that every supply chain and business need is different, and we are here to work with you and your company.
Low‑carbon fuels, such as biofuels, produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional diesel. By integrating these alternatives into your transport strategy, you can cut transport emissions and demonstrate a commitment to sustainable logistics.
Due to our network of suppliers, we have access to different lower-carbon alternatives across the world and can seek to find these options.
Yes. Our approach is designed to balance carbon reduction, operational efficiency and cost‑effectiveness. By optimising routes and modes, consolidating shipments, and using alternative fuels where it makes sense, many businesses find savings alongside carbon reduction.
The choice to switch is completely up to you and the needs of your business, we can develop a long-term to implement these later on if it doesn’t suit your business model right now.
Customers are increasingly expecting businesses to take measurable climate action. As well as larger businesses that are required to report through regulation and have set their own net-zero target. By cutting your logistics emissions, you demonstrate leadership in sustainability, improve ESG ratings, become more competitive against competitors and future‑proof your brand against changing regulations and customer demands.
Yes, although freight is complex, progress is possible.
Using data‑driven insights, intermodal solutions and low‑carbon fuels, businesses can start cutting emissions right away, even as they plan for bigger changes like fleet electrification or supply chain redesign. Whilst we are still waiting for all routes and modes to become low carbon, we can offer our Remove product, which reduces your emissions whilst investing in sustainable logistics infrastructure.
Freight forwarders and logistics partners are critical: they bring expertise, data and practical solutions to help businesses reduce emissions without disrupting operations. By working closely with your logistics partner, you can build a future‑ready, lower‑carbon supply chain that is in line with your business growth.
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