Standard · Global reporting shift

From company totals
to a single shipment.

Logistics carbon reporting is evolving — from one annual company total toward counting the emissions of a single shipment, a single leg, to an international standard. We map how far that shift has come, grounded in public facts and the standard itself.

Framework · Ten stages of shipper demand

Reporting climbs like a ladder.

What global shippers ask of their logistics partners deepens in this order. Which rung you stand on is your readiness.

ESG surveyAnswering emissions items in a survey.

Company totalScope 1·2 and some Scope 3, aggregated company-wide.

Customer-attributed CO₂eAnnual emissions split per customer / shipper.

ISO 14083-alignedBoundary, allocation and modes to the international method.

Shipment-levelEmissions reported per shipment / per leg.

Real activity dataComputed from actual vehicle, fuel, load and empty-run data.

Low-carbon productsSAF, electric trucks offered as purchasable options.

Reduction attributionReductions attributed to the customer (Book & Claim, no double count).

Into bid evaluationCarbon data enters carrier selection and tenders.

Freight + carbonFreight and carbon bound into one transaction.

Typical position in Korea · 02–03Leading global carriers · 08–10

Reality · Already happening

The demand is already becoming a market reality.

Global shippers — iHerb and Amazon among them — require their logistics partners to measure and regularly report emissions from transport activity data, to secure the accuracy of supply-chain Scope 3. Global logistics companies such as DHL, DB Schenker, Kuehne+Nagel, DSV and Maersk have already built ISO 14083-aligned, shipment- and leg-level emissions reporting into their customer service. The same pressure — to provide internationally comparable, customer-level logistics carbon data — is rising fast for Korean companies carrying the same shippers’ freight.

Cases · Publicly confirmed

Cases disclosed down to the numbers.

Each of these was officially disclosed by the company. The scope of accounting, certification and assurance differs by case — Amazon–Maersk, for example, used GLEC-based accounting with SFC certification and third-party assurance.

Amazon · Maersk~20,000 FFE moved on low-emission fuel in 2023–24, ~44,600 tCO₂e reduced. Primary fuel-data accounting, customer reduction certificates issued.

Nestlé · MaerskAll ocean-container volume shifted to low-emission fuel, 80%+ reduction with customer certificates.

Microsoft · SAFLarge-scale sustainable aviation fuel, reductions attributed to the customer (Book & Claim) to prevent double counting.

Gap · Why Korea is hard

Without local data, foreign engines read Korea as a European average.

The carbon calculation engines used widely abroad are strong on international lanes and multimodal, but without data they fall back to European averages for Korea’s owner-operator fuel, domestic vehicle profiles, empty-run and mixed-load accuracy, and port-equipment emissions. That is the structural gap between the international reporting standard and Korea’s actual transport data.

LCS · The data layer

Connecting the standard to measurement.

LCS is the logistics carbon data infrastructure that connects the global ISO 14083 reporting standard to Korea’s actual transport activity data. Not a replacement for the calc engine — it lays measurement read straight from the vehicle on top, moving reports closer to the real value.

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