Alto Consulting
Supply Chain and Logistics Consultants We Drive Performance
Green Logistics
A team that Understands .....
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have teamed up with the best. Global input, and understanding of
best practice
Alto a collaborative partner with the Green Logistics Consultants Group is an international network of specialists consultants with a proven general or specific expertise in areas where companies and/or local and national governments can improve the socio-environmental performance of their supply chains or transport infrastructure.
Our consultants support companies and local and regional governments to develop a green logistics policy or sustainable supply chain and to realise an energy- and eco-efficient supply chain and transport infrastructure.
Within the Green Logistics Consultants Group, we develop and exchange environmental supply chain information, guidebooks and calculation tools. We have access to the latest knowledge, data, best practices and tools to investigate, measure, propose, implement and evaluate ambitious but realistic eco-efficient supply chain projects.
We participate with leading institutes to exchange information and to develop innovative solutions. Our clients benefit from our integrated expertise consolidated in local and international clusters of expertise.
Green logistics consultants are the logical choice to help your company to establish a logistics source emission inventory, to develop a sustainable logistics strategy and to realise tangible eco-efficient supply chain measures.
Our Consulting covers technical innovations and other drivers such as distance, speed, supply chain configuration, transport modes, transport and warehouse asset utilisation, packaging, reverse logistics, waste logistics and cultural change. The focus is on a correct and transparent measurement of Energy consumption, Greenhouse gas emissions, and other Air contaminants and on Transport avoidance, Operational and Technological strategies to reduce energy consumption and emissions .
Solutions
Our strategies to realise sustainable supply chains and transport operations involve as well Transport Avoidance, Operational as Technological strategies to reduce energy consumption and local and greenhouse gas emissions.
Transport Avoidance Strategies
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Strategy to reduce the demand for transport by eliminating unnecessary or avoidable transport.
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Reduction of volume and weight by clever design of products and packaging
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Reduction of distances between production and consumption
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Reduction of waste and the need to return waste or products
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Virtual exchanges and swaps ..
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Supply chain
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Supply chain integration
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Supply chain consolidation
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Collaborative logistics networks
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Eco-efficient purchasing
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Modal shift …
Trucking
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Supply chain integration
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Supply chain consolidation
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Collaborative logistics networks
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Supply chain configurations
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Better transport planning
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Eco Driving Training
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Reduced empty mileage
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Reduced highway speeds
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Reduced overnight idling
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Reduced pickup/drop off idling
Rail
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Reduced line haul speeds
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Reduced Empty mileage
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Reduced switchyard idling
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International collaboration
Marine
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Cold ironing (electrification)
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Reduced hotelling time
(minimizing the use of diesel powered auxiliary engines while in port) -
Reduced vessel speeds
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Use of larger ships
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Hull cleaning…
Air transport
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Use of continuous descent approach
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Increased load factors
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Reduced vertical separation minimums
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Reduced use of auxiliary power units
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Electrification of ground support equipment …
Retrofit
After-treatment devices to remove emissions from the engine exhaust; e.g. Diesel Particulate filters, NOx catalysts.
Repower
Replacing existing engine with a new engine that meets lower emission standards.
Refuel
Alternative and cleaner fuels such as emulsified (blended) diesel and biodiesel.
Repair/Rebuild
More and better maintenance to ensure that engines operate at maximum energy performance.
Replace
Replacement by newer equipment that meets higher emission standards.