Intermodal Transport: The key to decarbonize freight transport

reight transport in China accounts for about 700Mt of CO2 emissions. This is about 67 percent of the country’s total transport-related CO2 emissions, with road freight transport accounting for the highest share. In comparison, Germany’s total CO2 emissions in 2019 were about 811Mt.

In its bid to make freight transport more efficient and climate-friendly, the promotion of Intermodal Transport has high priority for the Chinese Ministry of Transport (MoT).

The Future of CO2 Emissions Accounting in China’s Transport and Logistics Sector

With the fast-paced development of the Chinese logistics sector and the booming Chinese freight industry, road   and highway freight volume have been growing 5.9% (to 8.19 billion tonnes) and 10.2% year-on-year respectively. To fully understand the transportation and logistics sector’s environmental and climate impact, systematically calculating, assessing and reporting the carbon footprint of the sector are crucial. […]

Report from the 7th Sino-German Logistics Conference in Beijing, 2018

The 7th Sino-German logistic conference was held on 14th May, 2018 in Beijng. The theme of this year`s conference was “Technological Innovation and Green Logistic”. The conference was opened by the Vice Minister of the Chinese Ministry of Transport (MoT) Dai Dongchang and State Sectary of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVi) Steffen Bilger. […]

Electric 3-wheelers in urban delivery in China and Germany – a bumpy road ahead?

Co-authored with Dr. Dominika Kalinowska. Chinese e-tailing revenues have grown from about EUR 33 billion in 2009 to more than EUR 500 billion in 2017, while Germany´s revenues from online shopping have grown from EUR 21.1 billion to about EUR 44 billion in the same amount of time. Without a doubt, online-shopping for all kinds […]

Express Delivery – China publishes Provisional Regulations

For four years in a row, China has been delivering the world’s largest express delivery volume, exceeding 40 billion consignments in 2017 (see here). In comparison: The German express delivery volume was projected to reach more than 3,3 billion for the same year (see here). As a result of a stronger Chinese e-commerce sector, the express delivery […]

Green Logistics – Study Tour on Intermodal Transport in Germany

Intermodal freight transport (combined transport) is one pillar of the shift approach within climate action strategies to make freight transport and logistics greener and more sustainable, thus effectively meet the targets of the Paris Agreement. Using combined transport means shifting road freight transport to more CO2 efficient modes such as rail or waterborne transport and […]

Energising Transport and Mobility: Mobility and Fuels Strategy as a Contribution to the Transport Transition in China

Successful continuation of the cooperation between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) – We are proud to implement the second commissioning by BMVI “Energising Transport and Mobility: Mobility and Fuels Strategy as a Contribution to the Transport Transition in China – Pilot […]

LCLN event on “Mitigating transport emissions: European and Chinese perspectives”

On June 26th, 2017, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, together with the Royal Norwegian Embassy to China and the China Carbon Forum co-organised an event titled “Mitigating transport emissions: European and Chinese perspectives”. The event was part of the China Low Carbon Leadership Network (LCLN), an event series jointly organized by GIZ and […]