Supply Chain Frontiers issue #49
Horizontal collaboration in logistics – the sharing of transportation capacity to reduce both costs and carbon emissions levels – will be tested in a pilot project involving four companies in Aragón, Spain.
The companies will share truck space to distribute their products. Initially the pilot will involve two destinations, Valencia and Madrid, but could be extended to a wider distribution area.
The project is driven by the Aragonese Association of Industries, and uses research carried out by the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, on how companies can apply horizontal collaboration in freight transportation (for more information on this work see the article Removing the Roadblocks to Horizontal Collaboration in the fall 2012 issue of Supply Chain Frontiers).
For more information on the pilot project and ZLC’s research on horizontal collaboration in logistics contact Dr. María Jesús Sáenz, Professor of Supply Chain Management and PhD Program Director at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain.