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What is green logistics?
What is green logistics? Green logistics includes efforts and measures to minimize the negative impacts of logistics activities, thereby achieving a sustainable balance between economic, social and environmental goals (Sbihi & Eglese, 2010). . According to the green logistics development framework, green logistics governs all three goals of Economy, Society and Environment simultaneously. These three goals are not exclusive, but on the contrary, they reinforce each other. All efforts of green logistics focus on contributing and ensuring sustainable development.,…
This term was first mentioned in the 1980s. Since then, many organizations and researchers have introduced different concepts of green logistics from many different approaches. In Vietnam, the concept of green logistics is still relatively new, so there is currently no unified and clear understanding. The Editorial Board of Vietnam Logistics Report 2022 gives the following views on green logistics: Green logistics is a logistics activity that aims at sustainable, friendly and environmentally friendly goals, minimizing negative impacts on the environment. school.
Demand for green logistics services - With market power, customers play an important role in promoting businesses to implement green logistics. In addition, customers are increasingly interested in environmentally friendly goods and services, so the development of green logistics is an inevitable trend, directly promoting the greening process in transportation, warehousing, Packaging products. Furthermore, many global logistics businesses now, when outsourcing services, also require emission standards for third-party logistics businesses.
In Vietnam, this industry is growing quite quickly. The average increase is about 14-16%. According to a report by Aglity (the world's leading logistics service provider) on the 2021 Emerging Market Logistics Index, Vietnam is currently ranked 8th in the Top 10 leading countries. Vietnam has increased its ranking by 3 levels compared to 2020. Therefore, the development of Green Logistics will improve competitiveness among businesses.
What is the importance of green logistics activities?
Once you understand what green logistics is, understanding the importance of green logistics is also really necessary. Green logistics projects are important not only to Vietnam in general but to the entire region in particular. Updating and orienting the development of green logistics in the future will become a prerequisite to help businesses not only survive but also thrive in the industry. Applying green logistics to business not only reduces environmental harm but also helps businesses solve the following problems:
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Minimize industrial waste
Packaging is one of the most used and discharged industrial and household wastes today. In Logistics, the most used packaging is plastic film covering goods used in dry/cold warehouses. With Green Logistics, businesses are encouraged to use packaging made from recycled materials or easily decomposed in the natural environment; or use pallet boxes (wood, plastic, etc.) to place products instead of using packaging that takes up warehouse space and affects the level of greening of the Logistic industry.
Reduce costs
The process of transporting goods uses many modes of transport (multimodal transport). Green Logistics applications use fuel-efficient means of transport, prioritizing the use of clean fuel. Planning the freight network, arranging distribution centers and choosing reasonable traffic routes so that trucks are full of goods in both directions of transport, and convective transport will help reduce costs.
Avoid waste
Applying Green Logistics to warehouse design for businesses such as: Optimizing warehouse and inventory layout strategies to reduce Logistic costs (stocking too much or too little creates waste, leading to increased storage costs). ) ; Use energy efficiently, exploit clean energy (in addition to fossil energy sources and oil); Design a sustainable warehouse that can be used for a long time, etc. to avoid wasting materials, rebuilding or quickly degrading the warehouse.
Currently, many businesses have been responding to the green logistics trend, spreading many meaningful messages about the environment and implementing sustainable development strategies. In particular, South Hanoi Cold Storage - one of the cold storage service businesses that responded the earliest to this trend, has achieved the title of 3-star Hanoi Green Energy awarded by the Hanoi People's Committee. This unit applies the green logistics control process right at the warehouse as follows:
- Controlling green packaging: With its packaging services, the warehouse always uses biodegradable wrapping films made from the simplest packaging materials that can decompose in nature;
- Green transport control: Assess activities that cause damage to goods and bad and incorrect points in the transport process that have a direct impact on environmental pollution;
- Green warehouse control: Control all factors that cause temperature increases and decreases, cold air loss, food damage, etc. when goods are stored in cold storage.
In 2022, overcoming difficulties and challenges, under the direction of the Government, Vietnam's Economy and Society will recover and develop strongly. However, it is predicted that 2023 will be a difficult year for the world economy in general and Vietnam in particular, requiring the need to continue to grasp the situation, further promote achievements, and make good forecasts. and access to international markets for appropriate response solutions.
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General situation of Green Logistics in Vietnam today
The current status of green logistics in Vietnam will be conveyed by PROSHIP in the most specific detail so that you can see the clear difference compared to traditional logistics:
Current status of green transportation
Rail transportation
Railway is a mode of transport that is considered environmentally friendly, but in Vietnam railway transport has not been invested in and developed commensurate with its exploitation potential. The current state of railway infrastructure in Vietnam is still limited and cannot meet the increase in freight traffic, especially on the intermodal route through Dong Dang station.
Regarding vehicles, having too many types of locomotives makes it difficult to repair and replace spare parts. Because investment capital is still limited, a large number of old and outdated freight wagons have not been eliminated while there is still a shortage of wagons for container goods. Vietnam's railways currently have an average speed of 80 - 90 km/h, quite slow compared to many countries in the world. With the above limitations in both infrastructure and vehicles, rail transport also releases a large amount of toxic emissions and noise into the environment. There is still the phenomenon of railway garbage and waste being discharged directly onto both sides of the tracks, causing reactions that destroy railway equipment, pollute the environment and affect the lives of the community.
In addition, it is necessary to mention dirt, chemicals, noise, vibration that affect the environment during transportation, loading and unloading of bulk goods, toxic goods, etc. Reduce road transport and increase transport by air. Railway is one of the contents of greening logistics activities. However, with the current situation of transporting goods by rail, Vietnam needs to make great efforts to develop this type to meet the requirements.
Trucking
Regarding transportation infrastructure, although in recent years the Government has continuously invested in improving the quality of the road infrastructure system, the highway network in general still does not meet development requirements. The length of highways is still low compared to many other countries in the world, and the density of highway distribution is not uniform among regions throughout the country. Some important expressways that have great demand and contribute to solving socio-economic problems have not yet received adequate investment such as: North-South expressway, Bien Hoa - Vung Tau expressway, City. Ho Chi Minh - Moc Bai, highways in the Mekong Delta region and ring roads of Hanoi Capital and City. Ho Chi Minh.
Regarding road transport vehicles, in Vietnam, trucks with small loads account for a higher proportion. According to the World Bank Report (2019), there are nearly 1.2 million trucks officially registered in Vietnam; Of which, 68% have a total vehicle weight of less than 5 tons, 11% from 5 - 10 tons, 14% from 10 - 20 tons and 7% of heavy trucks with a total vehicle weight of over 20 tons. While in countries with developed road networks such as Germany, the United States relies heavily on heavy trucks to transport goods with 70% and 53% respectively.
Many companies are currently considering solutions to implement green transportation strategies associated with sustainable infrastructure, which is using fewer vehicles, replacing clean and fuel efficient vehicles, and standardization. size of the truck. In January 2020, DHL Express - the world's leading international express delivery service provider added 10 electric motorbikes to the list of environmentally friendly delivery vehicles in Vietnam. On September 16, 2022, VinFast and Ahamove launched AhaFast - the first technology-based goods transportation service using electric motorbikes in Vietnam. The event marks a big step forward for VinFast and Ahamove in encouraging the community to use green logistics services.
For businesses that still have limited resources in implementing green transportation projects by replacing vehicles using fossil fuels with vehicles using renewable fuels, it is still completely feasible. can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by applying eco-driving training solutions. For example, Delta International Co., Ltd. organized the first eco-driving training project in April 2018 at its City branch. Ho Chi Minh City with the support of the program "Green freight transport and ecological/defensive driving training for sustainable development" founded by GIZ.
Air transport
Although air transport is the least risky mode of transport, emissions from aircraft pollute the most sensitive areas of the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Organization on Climate Change (IPCC), exhaust fumes from airplanes account for 3.5% of the cause of global warming. According to the European Environment Agency, flights from Europe produce emissions of up to 440,000 tons per day. In Vietnam, on average each year transportation activities emit about 30 million tons of CO2, of which air transportation accounts for 5% (Resources and Environment Newspaper, 2019).
To generally evaluate the efficiency of transportation operations at Vietnamese enterprises, the Editorial Board of Vietnam Logistics Report 2022 asked survey enterprises to make comments on the effectiveness of their transportation management system. industry in optimizing transport routes and reducing fuel consumption. Accordingly, up to 77% of businesses responded that their transportation management system reached "relatively effective" and "very effective" levels.
Sea and inland waterway transport
In Vietnam, Tan Cang - Cat Lai in City. Ho Chi Minh is the first port to win the Green Port title of the APEC Port Service Network Council. This is also the largest and most modern seaport in Vietnam, and ranks in the TOP 21 largest and most modern container ports in the world with a scale of 160 hectares of yards, 2,040m of wharf, loading and unloading equipment and advanced management technology. up. The enterprise's experience in greening seaports is to save resources; port environmental quality; Using clean energy at the port, treating waste at the port, applying 4.0 technology, etc. For inland waterways, developing coastal transport routes and the VR-SB river-sea fleet has partly reduced pressure. force for North-South road transport, effectively participating in container transport activities in the Southern region.
Regarding the number of inland waterway vehicles, according to the Vietnam Register, as of June 2021, the whole country has a total of 235,000 inland waterway vehicles, with a total tonnage of about 19.6 million tons, with an average age of 14 years. . However, because inland waterway vehicles are too old, outdated, have low fuel combustion efficiency and do not have an exhaust gas treatment system, they emit many toxic gases. For example, ports in Ho Chi Minh City are emitting a large amount of CO2 into the environment: Ben Nghe port emits over 5,000 tons of CO2 each year; Saigon - Hiep Phuoc port about 7,750 tons of CO2/year; container port about 101 tons of CO2/year; Thanh Le petroleum port emits about 385 tons of CO2/year; Shipbuilding and repair ports also emit 2,278 tons of CO2/year.
Current status of green warehouses
Currently, Vietnam's warehouse system is of lower quality than other Asian countries. Many warehouses do not have concrete floors, they are only built of bricks on sand, the warehouse floors are uneven, easily damaging goods. Regarding energy for the warehouse system, warehouses mainly use electricity to serve the needs of lighting and temperature control of the warehouse when necessary. Warehouses with environmentally friendly features such as using solar energy, natural light, suitable area, thick walls and floors, and on-site recycling are requirements in warehouse construction and operation. of Vietnamese businesses.
According to a survey by the Report Editorial Board, up to 68.6% of responding businesses have not used renewable energy in warehouse operations at their businesses or have not rented a warehouse that uses renewable energy. create. Survey data also shows that warehouse management is not truly scientific, modern techniques have not been applied, especially not many information technology applications are used in warehouse coordination and management. The distribution warehouse, or CY/CFS warehouse, has not yet been connected to the information network with customers to serve the inspection, storage and tracking of each shipment from the warehouse to any location, and has not yet applied warehouse management techniques. (specialized software, barcodes,...).
Current status of green packaging
Packaging is one of the most generated industrial and household wastes today. Every day big cities like Hanoi and City. Ho Chi Minh City releases about 80 tons of plastic waste into the environment, but a very small percentage of plastic packaging products are recycled, which causes a great impact on the environment and is a significant waste for the economy. In order to develop green logistics, businesses are encouraged to use packaging made from recycled materials or easily decomposed in the natural environment.
For example, South Hanoi Cold Storage has green logistics control processes right from the packaging of goods, such as using wrapping films made from the simplest packaging materials that can decompose in nature. In addition, use pallets (wooden, plastic, etc.) to place products instead of using packaging that takes up warehouse space and affects the level of greening.
With its reusable feature, this tool is especially effective in distributing and transporting goods, ensuring goods safety as well as limiting the excessive use of packaging and product dunnage. environmental waste. According to the survey results, a good sign in packaging activities is that the proportion of environmentally friendly packaging such as paper and carton packaging has been used by 42.9% of businesses, 1.2% of businesses. % of businesses using wooden packaging.
Current status of Green Information System
There is very little survey data on the current state of logistics information systems in Vietnamese enterprises. Most businesses with logistics activities in Hanoi city only use basic information technology tools such as phone, SMS, email, fax, website, LAN, WAN. Although most businesses are aware of the importance of IT applications for the logistics industry, due to the high investment rate, IT items of businesses such as: delivery management system (FMS), delivery management system, etc. Transportation management (TMS), warehouse management (WMS), resource management (ERP)... are implemented quite fragmented and not systematic, so the investment results are not as expected.
The application of GPS positioning systems by shipping companies to control the location of ships is an important initiative to promote the level of greening in logistics activities. However, the use of GPS systems for other modes of transport is still limited.
Current status of reverse logistics
Developing reverse logistics in Vietnam is extremely necessary for businesses, industries as well as on a national level, especially in the context that the concept of sustainable development has become the Party's policy, policy, and policy. state policy and Vietnam has signed many international commitments on sustainable development such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, the Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Basel Convention on the control of cross-border transport of hazardous wastes and their disposal, Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants. Research on reverse logistics appears in countries around the world but is rarely conducted in the Vietnamese market:
- Recall activities:
Regarding recovery activities, reverse logistics management in Vietnam includes two main contents: (1) administrative management associated with the process of managing waste collection and treatment activities of ministries, branches and (2) managing activities associated with the participation of members in the supply chain with responsibilities as collectors, processors, and redistributors.
- Waste treatment:
Currently, Vietnam's waste treatment system operates in two forms of organization: formal and informal. The official system is managed by the State or private companies on a contract basis for waste collection and treatment. In contrast, the informal system is small, spontaneous, dispersed and has no contracts between system participants. However, the reverse logistics system responsible for the waste treatment process is being managed in an overlapping manner by many ministries and branches and there is no clear division of responsibilities. Therefore, reverse logistics activities, especially in the waste treatment process, face many difficulties.
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Fees for import and export of goods depend on factors
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Utility services provided for international routes
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Proship has updated the knowledge you need to know about what green logistics is , the importance of green logistics as well as the current status of green logistics in Vietnam. Based on this information, domestic production and business enterprises should have new directions to promote the green logistics process to achieve the highest efficiency. In general, the current situation of Green Logistics still has many shortcomings and difficulties, so there needs to be proposals for sustainable development solutions from the State and Enterprises... Please continue to follow the next news articles and contact Hotline for advice and the best package quote for International Intermodal Cargo Import-Export Services 2023.
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