Development Of Green Logistics Research Articles

Research on Countermeasures for the High Quality Development of Green Logistics in China under the "Double Carbon" Target

Carbon emission reduction and green logistics have received widespread attention from all walks of life in recent years, and the introduction of the "double carbon" target has made it urgent and imperative to achieve high-quality development of green logistics. This paper, based on the existing research results and the current situation of green logistics development, takes the shortcomings of China's green logistics development under the "double carbon" target as the starting point, conducts an in-depth analysis from three levels: awareness, policies and regulations and professional talents, and puts forward feasible suggestions and improvement countermeasures to realize the high-quality development of China's green logistics, specifically These include: cultivating social consensus on the development of green logistics, improving the green logistics policy and regulation system, and strengthening theoretical research and talent training on green logistics. It is of great practical significance to effectively promote the green development and "double carbon" goal of the whole Chinese society.

E-Commerce Logistics System Based on Discrete Dynamic Modeling Analysis

The development of green logistics in a low-carbon environment is an important way for logistics companies to reduce operating costs, and it is also a strategic measure to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization. This study improves the bat algorithm for single-delivery express delivery and multi-delivery, determines the optimal target and seeks the optimal solution, establishes the optimal logistics distribution scheme combined with corporate profits, and finally, compares it with other algorithms to verify the feasibility of the model. In the same experimental environment, it is proven that the performance of the built model is about 20% higher than that of other methods, and the planned path is the most reasonable. In the future application of e-commerce logistics system, it is a more efficient, reasonable, and perfect discrete logistics model.

Electric vehicle routing models and solution algorithms in logistics distribution: A systematic review.

With the development of green logistics and the promotion of new energy vehicle development policies domestically and abroad, electric vehicles have been put into logistics and distribution as an alternative to traditional fuel vehicles. The Electric Vehicle Routing Problem (EVRP) has attracted widespread attention from the academic community. This paper comprehensively examines the latest research progress on electric vehicle routing models and solution algorithms in logistics and distribution. Firstly briefly introduces EVRP models considering battery losses; secondly, based on the composition of the EVRP objective function and constraints, EVRP models are classified into four types: EVRP considering load and battery life constraints, EVRP with a time window and considering charging strategies, the study of vehicle routing problems for hybrid fleets, and EVRP combined with charging/swapping station location. Then, briefly introduce exact algorithms, traditional heuristics, meta-heuristics, and hybrid algorithms for solving EVRP models. Moreover, it analyzes the main meta-heuristics that are more widely used. Finally, this review points out the development trend of EVRP theoretical methods.

A multi-cycle and multi-echelon location-routing problem for integrated reverse logistics

PurposeThe rapid development of smart cities and green logistics has stimulated a lot of research on reverse logistics, and the diversified data also provide the possibility of innovative research on location-routing problem (LRP) under reverse logistics. The purpose of this paper is to use panel data to assist in the study of multi-cycle and multi-echelon LRP in reverse logistics network (MCME-LRP-RLN), and thus reduce the cost of enterprise facility location.Design/methodology/approachFirst, a negative utility objective function is generated based on panel data and incorporated into a multi-cycle and multi-echelon location-routing model integrating reverse logistics. After that, an improved algorithm named particle swarm optimization-multi-objective immune genetic algorithm (PSO-MOIGA) is proposed to solve the model.FindingsThere is a paradox between the total cost of the enterprise and the negative social utility, which means that it costs a certain amount of money to reduce the negative social utility. Firms can first design an open-loop logistics system to reduce cost, and at the same time, reduce negative social utility by leasing facilities.Practical implicationsThis study provides firms with more flexible location-routing options by dividing them into multiple cycles, so they can choose the right option according to their development goals.Originality/valueThis research is a pioneering study of MCME-LRP-RLN problem and incorporates data analysis techniques into operations research modeling. Later, the PSO algorithm was incorporated into the crossover of MOIGA in order to solve the multi-objective large-scale problems, which improved the convergence speed and performance of the algorithm. Finally, the results of the study provide some valuable management recommendations for logistics planning.

Impact of Green Logistics Performance on China’s Export Trade to Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Countries

Based on the logistics performance index proposed by the World Bank, this study uses the entropy method to construct the green logistics performance index and empirically analyzes the impact of the green logistics performance of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) countries on China’s export trade using the expanded trade gravity model. The results show that the green logistics performance of RCEP countries can significantly promote China’s export trade to RCEP countries, and various measures to improve green logistics performance have different impacts on China’s export trade. The order of influence degree is the efficiency of a customs clearance procedure, the convenience of arranging freight with a competitive price, the timeliness of cargo transportation, the ability and quality of logistics service, and the intensity of CO2 and N2O emission. To promote China’s export trade, we should give full play to the functions of the customs of various countries and improve the efficiency of regulatory procedures. The regression results reveal that GLPI has a significant and positive impact on export trade RCEP countries, as indicated by the coefficient value of 2.887 at a 1% level of significance. The component factors of GLPI also positively and significantly influence the export trade, but carbon emissions and nitrogen emissions proved to be negative. This study establish with RCEP countries, promote the layout of logistics transport routes among RCEP members, and enhance the popularity of green logistics services; Give full play to the positive role of regional economic organizations and mechanisms, and promote green logistics cooperation between RCEP member countries with high and low GLPI; Through logistics planning, logistics policy and advanced low-carbon logistics technology, promote sustainable development of green logistics.

Evaluation of Green Logistics Development in Fujian, China

Green logistics has become important in the development of China's logistics industry, and the evaluation and monitoring of the development of green logistics have attracted much research interest. Green logistics is closely related to the overall logistics development based on the awareness of sustainable development. Taking Fujian Province as an example, we construct the evaluation index system of logistics development to evaluate the results of green development. After standardizing and dimensioning the evaluation index data with SPSS, the score of logistics development level in Fujian from 2014 to 2019 is obtained by using principal component analysis, and the development of green logistics in the region is evaluated based on the proportion of energy consumption of logistics industry during this period. The results show that the development of green logistics in this region is in a good direction, and the logistics industry presents sustainable development.

Green Logistics and Health in OBRI Economies: Does Social Marketing Matter?

In this study, our primary focus is to capture the impact of green logistics and social marketing on health outcomes in One Belt Road Initiative (OBRI) countries over the time period 2007–2019. Two estimation techniques, i.e., 2SLS and GMM, are employed to get the estimates of our variables. Findings of the 2SLS model confirmed the negative impact of green logistics on infant mortality in OBRI, European, MENA, and Asian countries. On the other side, the relationship between green logistics and life expectancy is positive in all the regions in 2SLS models. The other estimation technique also supports these findings, GMM, which confirmed the negative impact of green logistics on infant mortality and the positive impact of green logistics on life expectancy OBRI, European, MENA, and Asian economies. From these findings, we can conclude that green logistics helps to improve the health status of OBRI economies. Similarly, social marketing also improves the health status in OBRI and other regions in both models. Therefore, the governments and policymakers in respective economies should focus on the development of green infrastructure and logistics that, on one side, promote economic growth. However, on the other side, it helps improve environmental quality, which ultimately improves the OBRI economies' health status.

Evolutionary game analysis of promoting the development of green logistics under government regulation

Due to the strong negative externalities of traditional logistics, the green logistics that developed from traditional logistics has the advantages of saving resources and protecting the environment. However, in the competitive market environment, enterprises will not implement green logistics based on their own revenues and competitiveness and, instead, will choose the best choice from the actions of a series of internal and external factors. To explore the effect of various factors on the implementation of green logistics by enterprises, this study constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model of the governments, logistics enterprises, and users from the perspective of the participants in the process of logistics greening and analyzes the evolutionarily stable strategies of each participant under different situations. Netlogo software is used to simulate and analyze the initial willingness of the participants, the intensity of government subsidies and fines, and the probability that the enterprises’ speculative behaviors are founded on the system’s evolutionary paths and results. The results demonstrate that the initial willingness of the governments, logistics enterprises, and users to participate has different effects on the evolutionary results of the system. Government subsidy and fine measures significantly impact the strategic choices of enterprises and users. Compared with users, enterprises are more sensitive to government subsidies, and compared with fines, government subsidies have a greater impact on enterprises’ behavior choices. Moreover, the governments should strengthen the publicity of green logistics, formulate judgement standards and an evaluation system for green enterprise logistics, and restrain the speculative behaviors of enterprises.

A multi-center joint distribution optimization model considering carbon emissions and customer satisfaction.

Logistics enterprises are searching for a sustainable solution between the economy and the environment under the concept of green logistics development. Given that, this study integrates carbon emission as one of the costs into the vehicle routing problem with time window (VRPTW) and establishes a multi-center joint distribution optimization model taking into account distribution cost, carbon emission, and customer satisfaction. In the study of carbon emissions, this paper selected the vehicle load rate and vehicle distance as the main indicators. An improved ant colony algorithm is designed to solve the model by introducing the elite strategy, the saving strategy, vehicle service rules, and customer selection rules. Simulation results show that compared with the traditional ant colony optimization and genetic algorithm, the improved ant colony algorithm can effectively reduce the distribution cost and carbon emission and, improve customer satisfaction.

Green Logistics in Freight Transportation: Problems, Possible Solutions

The transportation is one of basic sources of negative impact on environment. Main problems that restrain green logistics development in Ukraine are the following: environmental priorities depend on economic feasibility; the national system of environment protection has inefficient management; the observance of environment protection laws and environmental rights and duties of citizens is very poor; low compliance with environment protection laws and lack of strict accountability for their violation; absence of clear scheme of green logistics implementation in a company; there are no incentives for green logistics implementation; there is no direct cause to effect connection with delivery chain and environment etc. Possible arrangements that may improve development of economic control and market tools for environment protection against negative impact of movable sources of pollution in Ukraine can be: setting fees for negative environmental impact considering costs necessary for environment protection activities; instead of charging fees for pollution in the excess of established limits charge for the reparation of environmental damage; introducing incentives for companies implementing environmental modernization programs for movable fleet; giving advantages to transport companies that (among other equal terms) comply with environmental standards; gradual implementing the system of environmental standards statement and environmental audit; raising environmental and social responsibility of business.

Sustainable Logistics Systems

Green logistics has much value for our societal development. The essential task is helping build a sustainable economy. Due to environmental impact economic activities bring and sustainable development and the requirement for logistics activities, the green logistics system must include green supply, green warehousing or distribution, green packaging, green transportation, the greening of sales logistics, remanufacturing of used products, and waste recycling. It is necessary to take corresponding countermeasures to build a scientific system for the development of green logistics, which is a necessity for modern logistics.

Research on the Development of Green Packaging

With the continuous development of world economy and science and technology, the logistics industry occupies more and more proportion in people’s daily production and life, but the pollution generated in each logistics link also increases. So the development of green logistics is already imminent. This paper focuses on the demand analysis of green packaging in logistics, and comparison, and finally proposes specific measures to develop green packaging. Through research, the development of green packaging should first pay attention to the choice of green materials, such as using recycling turnover boxes instead of cartons, electronic signatures to replace the original triple delivery slip. Secondly, the development of green packaging requires the joint efforts of all walks of society, including the government, enterprises and consumers.

Research on the Application of Environmentally Friendly Packaging Materials in the Sustainable Development of Logistics

With the quickening of environmental pollution control in China, the concrete measures of “plastic limit” and “plastic ban” were put forward one after another. At the same time, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Waste will be formally revised and implemented in September 2020. This fully demonstrates the importance we attach to ecological protection and sustainable development of the environment and our determination to control environmental pollution. At present, with the popularization of e-commerce, the fragmentation of consumption, the penetration of online shopping in rural areas is getting bigger and bigger, and the express delivery industry is showing explosive growth. Especially under the epidemic, consumers’ consumption behaviors and consumption patterns have changed greatly. Network consumption behavior increased significantly, carton, plastic bags and other packaging products demand increased significantly. It consumes a lot of resources, such as paper and plastic products, and also produces a lot of packaging waste. Through the analysis and comparison of several disposable plastic packaging materials in green logistics, the importance of green packaging in green logistics is discussed, which has a strong inspiration for environmental protection and the development of green logistics.

Estudio de estrategias verdes como medida para mitigar la contaminación marina generada por buques.

Due to the constant growth in import and export operations, it has equally increased global maritime trade, especially for its safety, efficiency and economy compared with other modes of transport. However, shipping has been one of the causes of the negative impact that affects the environment due to pollution generated by ships that produces deterioration in the ozone by emissions of organic gaseous compounds that promote extinction of the species and marine habitat due to spills of toxic liquids, ballast water, containers that falls into the sea, among other polluting sources. For the above, We found a reason to made a qualitative study based on statistics, information from agencies responsible for regulating the sector, international projects for the prevention of marine pollution by ships, scientific journal articles and existing studies on the amount of marine pollution and through this information, identify strategies that promote the development and implementation of green logistics in the mention sector in order to mitigate pollution it generates.

Research on Carbon Emission Scale and Influencing Factors of Green Logistics Industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai

The Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas are important areas for my country’s economic development. Its logistics industry is showing a trend of great development, but economic development has also caused considerable pressure on the environment. The paper uses the energy coefficient method to estimate the carbon emissions of the logistics industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai from 2003 to 2016, and quantitatively analyzes the five factors of energy structure, energy efficiency, industrial structure, economic growth and population. The research results show that the energy structure factors and industrial structure factors in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions have a restraining effect on the increase in carbon emissions of the logistics industry, while energy efficiency factors, demographic factors and economic growth factors have an effect on the carbon emissions of the logistics industry. The increase in emissions has a boosting effect. Finally, from the aspects of improving energy efficiency, energy structure, industrial structure, etc., it puts forward specific suggestions and countermeasures for the development of green logistics in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Study of Green Logistics Managing Potential and the Preparedness of Auto Parts Industries in Thailand

This study aims to study green logistics managing potential and the preparedness of auto parts industries in Thailand. The statistical analysis is to identify factors with confirmatory factor analysis; oneway ANOVA is used to define relative factors affecting green logistics development of auto parts industries in Thailand. It can predict the results using multinomial logit modeling. The study suggests that factors affecting green logistics managing potential and the preparedness of auto parts industries in Thailand are environmental operations, internal green supply chain management, and external green supply chain management.

Heterogeneity of Green TFP in China’s Logistics Industry under Environmental Constraints

In the context of China’s supply-side structural reform and the concept of green development, we introduce the energy and environmental factors into the analytical framework of the total factor productivity (TFP) of the logistics industry and use the Global Malmquist–Luenberger index method to analyze the evolution trend and heterogeneity of green TFP in the logistics industry of 30 provinces (cities and districts) in China from 2003 to 2017. The results show that, firstly, the green TFP and traditional TFP of China’s logistics industry are both on the rise and the absence of energy and environmental factors will lead to the overestimation of TFP of the logistics industry. Whether it is green TFP or traditional TFP, the main source of its growth is technical progress. Secondly, there is obvious regional heterogeneity in green TFP of logistics industry. Under the three regional division standards, the average annual growth rate of green TFP is from high to low in the order of eastern, western, and central regions. Under the eight regional classification standards, the eastern coastal economic zone, the southern coastal zone, the northern coastal zone, the northeast region, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the southwest region, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the northwest region are in order from high to low. Thirdly, there is obvious interprovincial heterogeneity in green TFP of the logistics industry. The highest growth rate of green TFP is in Zhejiang, followed by Jiangsu and Guangdong, and the slowest growth rate is in Chongqing. The technical progress of logistics industry in most provinces contributes more to the growth of green TFP. Fourthly, the differences of green TFP in the three regions of the east, center, and west are shrinking, which may be σ convergence, but the differences among the three regions are expanding. Compared with the existing literature, this paper applies the measurement framework of green TFP to China’s logistics industry and investigates the regional and provincial heterogeneity of green TFP in logistics industry. The conclusions are significant to understand and grasp the heterogeneity of green TFP growth in China’s logistics industry under environmental constraints and how to promote the development of green logistics in China.

The Situation of Offshore Oil Logistics Industry and Transportation Scheme Design of New Concept of Green Logistics

Zhu, Y. and Suo, J., 2020. The situation of offshore oil logistics industry and transportation scheme design of new concept of green logistics. In: Li, L. and Huang, X. (eds.), Sustainable Development in Coastal Regions: A Perspective of Environment, Economy, and Technology. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 112, pp. 447-450. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.With the increasing demand of the whole society for improving the ecological environment and improving the efficiency of resource utilization, the application and development of green logistics in the offshore oil logistics industry is becoming more and more urgent. Based on this, this paper first studies the basic concept and application of green logistics, then analyzes the necessity, current situation and existing problems of the development of green logistics in the offshore oil logistics industry, and finally gives the countermeasures and measures for the development of green logistics in the offshore oil logistics industry.

Establishment of Systematic Strategic Planning Procedure for China's Green Coal Logistics by using Interpretative Structure Model

In today’s society with a globalized economy, countries around the world are pursuing efficiency while also pursuing environmentally sustainable development. Therefore, studying green coal logistics for environmental development and optimization is of great significance and practical value. On the basis of the green concept framework of coal logistics, this paper will determine the five main problems in the operation of green coal logistics and then propose seven improvement strategies to these five main problems by using TRIZ theory. Interpretative structural modeling (ISM) is used to establish a systematic development procedure of green coal logistics strategy to examine the development of green coal logistics. The analysis results of ISM indicate that, when developing green coal logistics, coal enterprises should retain the effective operation of the original operating mechanism. At the same time, enterprises should introduce a green coal logistics system and effectively merge the two to establish a simple and effective logistics system operating mechanism and cultivate employees’ awareness of environmental protection. Doing so will establish a green image of coal enterprises and decrease the cost of green logistics of coal enterprises. Next, each department within the coal enterprise should be refined. To enable various departments within the coal enterprise to improve work efficiency through information sharing and exchange, the operation process of each department needs to be standardized and the source and the scope of information of each department must be clarified. Finally, through the production, storage, sharing, and transfer of knowledge of information, coal enterprise employees can be assisted to effectively carry out green awareness popularization courses so they can acquire, produce, store, share, and transfer the knowledge of green coal logistics to enable coal enterprises and employees to understand the relationship between the development of green coal logistics and environmental protection.

Research on Green Logistics Development in Guangdong Province from the Perspective of Sustainable Development

As the largest province in China’s total economy, Guangdong’s logistics industry has developed rapidly and has made important contributions to the development of regional economy. In this context, promoting the development of Guangdong’s logistics industry to green logistics as soon as possible and reducing carbon emissions are important ways to achieve sustainable development. By analyzing the current situation of the development of the logistics industry in Guangdong Province, this paper finds that there are deficiencies in the information level, transportation structure and park planning of the logistics industry. Based on the problems found, this paper puts forward some suggestions for the development of green logistics in Guangdong Province.