7. Transporting in a Sustainable Way Available to Purchase

Transport is one of the essential links in the logistics chain, the importance of which has been reinforced by globalization. Indeed, the places of production of the products we use are more and more distant from their places of consumption. The performance of transport, combined with numerous technological evolutions, has allowed this distance between the places of production and the places of consumption without affecting the level of service for the final customers, quite the contrary. Pressure on costs and lead times to meet market requirements is erasing distances and eroding waiting times. As soon as the supply chain concerns physical products, transport is now present at all stages and between all the links in the logistics chain. For some years now, this omnipresence of transport, and the dependence it generates for all actors, have been questioned by scientists and NGOs. Economists are now talking about the negative externalities of transport, which manifest themselves in the form of harm to human health and the environment.