3PL/Logistics

Odyssey Logistics & Technology has joined the SmartWay Transport Partnership, earning the highest rating of 125

The partnership, a voluntary collaboration between the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the transportation industry, is designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution and improve fuel efficiency

A score of 125 represents outstanding environmental performance and indicates that Odyssey T is already using carriers that employ most of the commercially available fuel-saving strategies as well as actively evaluating the latest emerging technologies

Odyssey will contribute to the partnership's goal by helping to reduce between 33 and 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and up to 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year by 2012

Launched in February 2004, the SmartWay Transport Partnership brings together major freight shippers, trucking companies, railroads, logistics companies and industry associations to pursue mutually beneficial strategies that result in emissions reductions and other environmental improvements

According to Glenn Riggs, Odyssey's senior vice president of North American overland logistics, SmartWay certification is starting to appear in requests for proposals (RFPs), with potential customers requiring the service provider's rating with SmartWay