Updating emissions reporting model for air freight carriers’ Road Feeder Service truck operations
Martinez, Oliver (2024)
2024
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This master’s thesis has been done to Finnair Cargo who was in the process of updating their Road Feeder Services emissions reporting model. Through a case study research method current emissions accounting methods and current reporting legislation was studied in the theoretical framework of this thesis. The thesis has been scoped to cover those Finnair Cargo’s Road Feeder Service operations and those legislations taking place in the European area.
During the empiric research phase, qualitative research was made by semi-structured interviews for Finnair Cargo’s main stakeholders in road feeder services. The interviews also worked as benchmarking to answer the research question about which emissions measuring models are in place on Finnair Cargo’s stakeholders. The interviews were researched utilizing content analysis, and the answers were categorized to make conclusions.
Attention has been taken also in the future views of sustainability in the freight transportation industry since the sustainability is seen as a very topical theme and specially all the legislation and sustainability targets of the companies have a common goal to reduce the industry’s emissions after all. In order to improve operations in terms of sustainability, measuring of emissions needs to be first of all in place and secondly adequate based on this research.
As the outcomes of the research, recommendations to Finnair Cargo were given to update their Road Feeder Services emissions accounting methods. It was recommended starting to report scope 3 emissions by implementing accounting as required by the industry’s new standard ISO14083. It was also recommended to start also accounting the emissions intensity of the Road Feeder Services.
Since the complexity of the calculations, especially on the variable transport chain elements that the different shipments have, it was recommended to Finnair Cargo to start utilizing a third-party emissions accounting IT tool. In case of not starting to utilize a third-party IT tool, it was recommended to update their current emissions accounting matrixes as instructed by the GLEC framework which latest version is fully aligned with the ISO14083 standard.
Lastly, it was recommended that Finnair Cargo keeps on eye on the constantly updating frameworks, methodologies and specially on the upcoming EU level CountEmissions EU directive for harmonized measurement of transport and logistics greenhouse gas emissions which at the time of writing this thesis was still under preparation at the European Parliament, but when published will have an impact on the emissions accounting and reporting concerning the freight transportations happening at the European territory.
During the empiric research phase, qualitative research was made by semi-structured interviews for Finnair Cargo’s main stakeholders in road feeder services. The interviews also worked as benchmarking to answer the research question about which emissions measuring models are in place on Finnair Cargo’s stakeholders. The interviews were researched utilizing content analysis, and the answers were categorized to make conclusions.
Attention has been taken also in the future views of sustainability in the freight transportation industry since the sustainability is seen as a very topical theme and specially all the legislation and sustainability targets of the companies have a common goal to reduce the industry’s emissions after all. In order to improve operations in terms of sustainability, measuring of emissions needs to be first of all in place and secondly adequate based on this research.
As the outcomes of the research, recommendations to Finnair Cargo were given to update their Road Feeder Services emissions accounting methods. It was recommended starting to report scope 3 emissions by implementing accounting as required by the industry’s new standard ISO14083. It was also recommended to start also accounting the emissions intensity of the Road Feeder Services.
Since the complexity of the calculations, especially on the variable transport chain elements that the different shipments have, it was recommended to Finnair Cargo to start utilizing a third-party emissions accounting IT tool. In case of not starting to utilize a third-party IT tool, it was recommended to update their current emissions accounting matrixes as instructed by the GLEC framework which latest version is fully aligned with the ISO14083 standard.
Lastly, it was recommended that Finnair Cargo keeps on eye on the constantly updating frameworks, methodologies and specially on the upcoming EU level CountEmissions EU directive for harmonized measurement of transport and logistics greenhouse gas emissions which at the time of writing this thesis was still under preparation at the European Parliament, but when published will have an impact on the emissions accounting and reporting concerning the freight transportations happening at the European territory.