unitcargo world no. 6/2021
The periodical journal of UnitCargo. We organize Full Truck Loads on the road and in Intermodal Transport. Throughout Europe. Individual, fast and reliable. We believe in a fossil-free logistic world.
The periodical journal of UnitCargo. We organize Full Truck Loads on the road and in Intermodal Transport. Throughout Europe. Individual, fast and reliable. We believe in a fossil-free logistic world.
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UNITCARGO BUSINESS<br />
UNITCARGO BUSINESS<br />
FIT4urban - Ways to a<br />
climate-neutral city<br />
and the role of logistics<br />
... are we still training, or are we already fit?<br />
The Forum Green Logistics is a forward-looking,<br />
sustainability-oriented k<strong>no</strong>wledge and networking<br />
platform that focuses on the transport industry<br />
and logistics. In the long term, the forum is intended<br />
to contribute to making freight mobility<br />
• greener,<br />
• more social and<br />
• more efficient<br />
by raising awareness towards the associated processes<br />
and tech<strong>no</strong>logies among all stakeholders<br />
and strengthening the industry‘s image. The Forum<br />
Green Logistics was founded in 2015 by Davor<br />
Sertic (CEO of UnitCargo) and has been based at<br />
the Institute of Production Management and Logistics<br />
at the University of Natural Resources and<br />
Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) since 2016. The focus<br />
„Our goal is to bring<br />
people from logistics together<br />
and address in dialogue <strong>no</strong>t<br />
only factual issues, but also<br />
issues that affect us all every<br />
day - to cooperate and learn<br />
from each other - to use our<br />
strengths and work together,<br />
<strong>no</strong>t against each other.“<br />
Davor Sertic,<br />
Founder Forum<br />
Green Logistics<br />
of the forum is on strengthening interdisciplinary<br />
and cross-industry cooperation at a national and<br />
international level with a clear view to the future.<br />
The Forum Green Logistics is a long-term project<br />
for creating sustainable awareness and improving<br />
the image of the transport industry and logistics,<br />
which connects decision-makers and experts and<br />
accompanies them on their journey all the way<br />
into the year 2030.<br />
The event will take place on 7 September in Vienna<br />
and will be organised for the first time together<br />
with the Austrian Transport Science Society (ÖVG).<br />
This year‘s thematic focus is: FIT4urban - Ways to a<br />
climate-neutral city and the role of logistics.<br />
Currently, the Corona pandemic still holds us in its<br />
spell. But there is already a vaccine. There is <strong>no</strong><br />
vaccine against climate change! It threatens the<br />
very existence of all of us - <strong>world</strong>wide!<br />
Austria‘s 2030 climate<br />
target for the transport sector<br />
The European Commission‘s Green Deal aims to<br />
make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Austria<br />
wants to achieve this as early as 2040. In order to<br />
be able to achieve these ambitious climate goals,<br />
we must avoid, but more importantly continuously<br />
improve transport in the mobility sector, because<br />
after all, with 24 million tonnes of CO2 emissions,<br />
transport makes up 30% of CO2 pollution in Austria<br />
(40.8% in Vienna). Austria‘s climate target for the<br />
transport sector in 2030 is 15.7 million tonnes of<br />
CO2. The transport sector currently emits 8.3 million<br />
tonnes more than the 2030 climate target.<br />
What do the climate targets<br />
mean for the future?<br />
What must be done today,<br />
tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?<br />
The signs are all pointing<br />
towards change. The transformation<br />
process towards sustainability should make<br />
our cities fit for the future. This process is already<br />
underway and if we look closely, we can already<br />
recognise what changes are in store for us.<br />
Cities as hotspots<br />
of change<br />
Cities are the hotspots of change. The high volume<br />
of processes that make up our daily coexistence<br />
offers optimal framework conditions for testing in<strong>no</strong>vations<br />
and making the resulting<br />
changes quickly visible and tangible.<br />
But they also bring out those<br />
challenges first for which new solutions<br />
are needed.<br />
We live in a closed system and it is inevitable<br />
to integrate a holistic understanding<br />
of our decisions into our thinking<br />
and actions. Far too often in the past, we<br />
have only taken responsibility for partial<br />
aspects of our decisions. Striving for<br />
further development is an innate desire<br />
for human beings. Tech<strong>no</strong>logical developments<br />
have created new potential.<br />
What can be digitalised will be digitalised<br />
and humans must find their role<br />
anew in this digitalised <strong>world</strong>.<br />
... it is in our hands!<br />
These are the questions that<br />
will be discussed and debated<br />
this year:<br />
• What are the biggest<br />
hurdles to overcome for a<br />
city to become climate<br />
neutral in logistics?<br />
• Which concepts are already<br />
working and which are on<br />
the verge of becoming<br />
functional?<br />
• What can be implemented<br />
in the short and long term?<br />
• What framework conditions<br />
are needed for a climateneutral<br />
city of tomorrow?<br />
Numerous competent speakers<br />
from home and abroad<br />
have already confirmed their<br />
attendance.<br />
VIENNA<br />
07.09.<strong>2021</strong><br />
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