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The story behind the numbers - the real gains of smarter transport logistics

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The story behind the numbers - the real gains of smarter transport logistics

Every day, goods move across countries and continents - quietly, constantly, and often unnoticed. Trucks roll out before sunrise, ships dock at midnight, and planes carry cargo halfway across the world. 

Behind this movement lies one of the most complex systems in modern society: transport logistics.

While this system keeps the world running, it is also under growing pressure. Consumers expect faster deliveries. Companies must keep costs under tighter control. And the planet demands lower emissions.

To meet these expectations, the industry has turned its attention to new technologies such as fossil-free fleets, automation, electrification, and smarter vehicles. These investments are essential. But amid the focus on what the future will bring, we risk overlooking a powerful truth about the present:

Transport will not become sustainable through cleaner vehicles alone. A systemic transformation is required - we must use the capacity we already have, simply better.

When Logivity was established in 2023, we carried with us an insight born inside one of the world’s largest transport buyers: achieving sustainable transport is not only about replacing fossil-fueled vehicles with cleaner alternatives - it is about rethinking the system they operate in.

Because while a cleaner truck is powerful, a cleaner truck that runs with higher fill rates, fewer empty miles, less waiting time, and smarter planning is transformative.

Sustainability in transport is not created in isolation. It emerges when the entire system works better — when resources are used wisely, flows become predictable, and decisions are based on real data rather than assumptions.

This insight became the foundation of Logivity: to remove unnecessary complexity, unite actors across the transport chain, and improve efficiency together - making sustainability sustainable in itself.

When efficiency increases, something remarkable happens:

  • Costs go down - and emissions follow, because they are inherently connected
  • Planning becomes more predictable and resilient
  • Investments in new technologies become easier to justify and scale

In other words, efficiency does not compete with sustainability. It enables it.

What the data* tells us

Through Logivity implementations, operational collaborations, real transport flows, and established industry research, we consistently see three areas where companies gain the most when logistics becomes connected and transparent:

Administrative savings (~25%)
When information lives in one place, manual work is reduced significantly. Automation lowers error rates, communication becomes clearer, and organizations gain time - to focus on what truly drives business value.

Transport cost savings (~15%)
Not by moving fewer goods, but by moving them smarter. Higher fill rates, fewer empty kilometers, and better synchronization across actors reduce waste and improve cost efficiency.

Emissions reduction (~20%)
Emissions follow energy use. When capacity utilization improves, emissions decrease naturally — just as they do when fuel consumption is reduced.

These are improvements companies can achieve long before their fleets become fossil-free. And once the journey toward net zero begins, the same efficiencies become powerful accelerators.

A platform built for progress

The role of Logivity is not to replace existing systems or dictate how companies operate. Our role is to connect the pieces that already exist — and to make every transport more sustainable, shipment by shipment, load by load.

Through an open platform built on APIs, we connect actors across the transport chain. With a modular service offering, companies can take small, manageable steps. And by ensuring that data ownership always remains with its owner, we lower the barriers to change.

The result is a shift toward a logistics ecosystem where decisions are easier to make, processes run more smoothly, and improvement becomes continuous — enabling companies to do more with less.


* Indicative figures based on Logivity implementations, real transport flows, and established industry research. Actual results may vary depending on scope and use.

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