Picking up or dropping off import containers at alternative depots reduces CO₂ emissions and avoids unnecessary kilometers, but it's not easy to calculate what distance or emissions have been avoided. We have some tool that can help you with this exercise.
To start calculating your savings you can add the following details when submitting a depot change request:
Drop-off
- Import location of the container
- Original and desired drop-off location
- Unload location
- Next stop location
Pick-up
- Export location of the container
- Original and desired pick-up location
- Start location
- Load location
We use these locations to calculate your company's savings. We are not sharing these specific location details with anyone else.
Drop-off: 
Pick-up: 
In the below examples this would show you the following:
- The alternative drop‑off location reduces the total truck trip by 240 km, saving about 2 hours and 22 minutes of transport time. This shorter route also avoids approximately 75.63 kg of CO₂:
- The alternative pick-up location reduces the total truck trip by 202 km, saving about 1 hour and 54 minutes of transport time. This shorter route also avoids approximately 63.7 kg of CO₂:
You can retrieve your estimated savings in 2 ways:
- View them on the platform
- Export the data via the export functionality:
The exported file will contain extra columns with your savings:
