The forwarder connected road to rail and port to door. But when the shipper asks for the emissions behind one waybill, the records from the vehicles that actually ran each leg are scattered across subcontractors. The freight path is complete. The data path still has gaps.
Shippers do not trace every subcontracted vehicle themselves. They ask the forwarder that issued the waybill and invoiced the freight for that shipment’s emissions and calculation basis. The reporting methods published by DSV, DB Schenker, DHL and Kuehne+Nagel all make the shipment or waybill the point where the answer is found.
The labels vary: invoice, consignment, AWB and shipment. The common point is the same. A shipper can find and export CO₂e for the transport it commissioned instead of receiving only a company-wide annual total.
CountEmissionsEU entered into force on 1 June 2026. The market is moving toward shipment-level CO₂e and primary-data share entering tender scorecards in 2027–28.
Sources: published corporate calculation methodologies, customer-reporting guidance and the European Commission. These companies are market benchmarks, not partners or customers of LCS.
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2-tier relay · measured data from 2 legs converges on one waybill. The trucks belong to partners — but the one who hands the shipper the evidence is the forwarder who issued the waybill.
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