Faguo. “Train’s carbon impact is slightly higher than a boat”

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Following the annual carbon annual survey for 2020, the footwear retailer Faguo changed tune in terms of promoting supply transport.

Readers will know that Faguo took a radical shift 3 years ago when goods were switched to train transport. From 15% of products shipped by train in 2019, a new target was 50% in 2020. However, the 2020 carbon survey measured that railway operations emitted slightly more carbon than a ship. When a train is a faster, it is also twice as expensive as a shi

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