Tag: Logistics

Efforts are underway to remove CO2 from seawater. Shipping is currently responsible for around 3% of greenhouse gas emissions - a figure that is on the rise. For our planet every reduction counts. Which explains why a female-led startup from London has developed a system that removes up to 95% of the carbon dioxide generated by a ship’s engine....

In India, leaves are being converted to fertiliser and farm stubble used to make packaging material - instead of being burned. Organic waste can be used in a variety of sustainable solutions. But what if you lack the material to implement a solution in practice? Enter a US-based startup and their platform which allows biological waste to be both...

Trailers can be remote-controlled while self-driving haulers could soon feature on railways. Meanwhile, a Swiss private sector initiative is developing an underground tunnel system allowing driverless EVs to transport supplies and waste at 30km/h. Trials will take place on a 70km three-lane stretch between Geneva and St. Gallen. Rather than using a swapping system, vehicles will be charged from...

Towable tiny houses make for a good night’s sleep. Across Germany every day, some 120,000 truck drivers spend their legally stipulated breaks somewhere near the motorway, often in their vehicle. Hotels are expensive and hard to find. Enter a Duesseldorf startup, which is converting shipping containers into sleeping accommodation, complete with shower and WC. Four rooms constitute a unit,...

Packaging is becoming more sustainable. Shipping too. Now, a startup from California is aiming to use intercity rail networks more efficiently by developing self-driving, electric haulers. Any two vehicles can transport a shipping container for up to 800 km on a single charge. Huge rail terminals could be replaced with micro terminals, built closer to the containers’ destination. This...

Sometimes it’s easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle. Or carry cargo through a city’s narrow streets. Two new EVs from a Seville-based startup could prove equally useful. The three-wheeled, tilt-proof vans, fusing a scooter and cargo box, are less than a metre wide and can travel at up to 45 km/h. They are available...

What links coconuts with rum and coffee? They are all shipped from overseas. Now a French company is aiming to make sea transportation more environmentally-friendly. Its 80-metre-long sailing ship, an alternative to this electric freighter, will have 700㎡ sails and be powered by wind. By winter 2022 the company should have 4 such vessels, travelling between Europe and destinations...

Fruit and its peel can be used in various ways. Whether it’s electricity from oranges or polishing shoes with bananas. Now, inspired by a university research team, a Dutch startup has started manufacturing fireproof palettes from coconut husks. First the company buys the husks, which would otherwise be discarded, from farmers in Asia. Next, the husks are ground into...