According to splash247.com and Gulfem Toygar, country manager for Amazon Sweden together with Helder Velho, EU vice president of surface transportation, Amazon is increasing the use of short sea trips to move inventory and packages across Europe as a part of it’s efforts to provide a more efficient, faster and low emissions mode of freight transport. The e-commerce giant company operates multiple sea routes to transfer good between Italy and Spain, and recently linked it’s warehouses in Germany and Poland to the ones in Sweden.
Almost half of Amazon’s warehouse transfers between Italy and Spain are now transported by sea , and they say they’re trying to avoid almost a quarter of the carbon emissions for next day delivery trips in Sweden. Sea routes are more efficient, less carbon intensive and sometimes faster than other alternatives. Amazon uses sea transportation since 2019 in Europe, but this year alone the company added 60 more short sea routes, and now operated more than 170 sea routes across Europe as part of it’s goal of decarbonizing it’s operations and achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2040.
Let’s hope they get to do that worldwide and help our planet breathe better.
