London, UK: Yusen Logistics has joined a pilot scheme aimed at reducing empty running and slashing carbon emissions.
The Logistics Living Lab project is part of Digital Catapult’s Digital Supply Chain Hub. The pilot involves Vodafone Digital Asset Broker, Microsoft, Yusen Logistics, Fuuse, and Parity Technologies.
The project is designed to enable hauliers to use digital technologies in order to share space on their vehicles with rival companies without compromising commercial information.
Part of the pilot will involve the development of a shared digital infrastructure for “more intelligent management of vehicle slot filling, routing, and tracking to allow competing logistics providers to safely share information about available truck space across their collective fleets, without the need for a single party needing full control or visibility of the whole system”.
The project will run until September 2024. Yusen Logistics head of business change, Leo Pickford, says: “Our customers, who are often operating on wafer thin margins, need to find ways to reduce costs and cut emissions.
“Given that 25% of trucks still run empty, while a significant amount of operational planning is done at the last minute, logistics optimisation, particularly in Shared User Transport (SUT), is a key area where operational efficiency can be realised.”
