Recommendations

Upload your shipments: Sootcase tries changes in four of the GLEC Framework's five areas for reducing freight emissions: other transport modes (road to rail, inland waterway or short sea, air to sea or rail, other sea ports), fuller loads, larger trucks, and electric or bio-LNG trucks. It calculates each with the same method as the shipment itself and lists the ones that lower emissions. Filter and pick below: the totals change at once. Results are scenarios, not reported emissions.

What this doesn't know. Transit times and costs; whether a train, barge or ferry actually runs on the lane; which terminals handle containers or trailers; shipping dates for combining loads. New rail, waterway and sea legs run between terminals, with road to the nearest one, and each terminal handling counts GLEC v3.3's intermodal terminal value (none for airports or Ro-Ro: no GLEC value). Full list under the results.

Shipments

Shipments CSV, as for the calculator's report (up to 1,000 shipments; files over the guest limit need a free account)

Rules (defaults from EU rules; changing them recalculates)

Road legs longer than (km) EU Transport White Paper 2011: 300 km

Rail, waterway or sea part over (km, straight line) Directive 92/106/EEC: 100 km

Road to a waterway or sea port within (km, straight line) Directive 92/106/EEC: 150 km

Rail terminal

Barge

Short sea ship

Ship instead of air

Other ports within (km)

Other ports to try per port

Fuller loads (optional; there's no standard default, so give your own target): the load on every road vehicle.

Load on the truck (t)

Empty km per loaded km

Truck

Where the load comes from