Green Logistics solutions in Vietnam

Abstract

Nowadays, because of the increased globalization of business, each country’s economy is increasingly dependent on the world economy. The scientific, technological and information technology revolution has accelerated the process of specialization in and cooperation between countries. Logistics plays an important role in this trend, especially in a developing country, such as Vietnam. However, like production economy, logistics is linked to trading emissions, social factors and pollution, all of which need cleaner operations and more detailed planning for sustainable development. The objective of the thesis was to find ways to make logistics in Vietnam more sustainable by learning from the international standards of sustainable logistics. Case study method was used in this study. The author has been working in a Macnels shipping company in Vietnam for 3 months. He started to learn about the company’s internal logistics processes and figured out the way to improve the working performance in the green logistics idea. With the focus on the warehouse perspective, the author has developed the research into 3 main directions: employee training, warehouse, maintenance. The combination of qualitative and quantitative methods has been used to conduct and evaluate the study. With an initial positive result in Macnels, the study could be applied by other medium sized companies with high investment in developing countries.