The automotive industry now has a deadline to clean up its act but that is not just in terms of the cleaner products it has to make. It also means making the method in which inbound parts are moved and how the finished vehicles are delivered to market more sustainable.

That is raising alarm bells in terms of the expenditure required for an industry that has lost revenue from nearly two years of supply chain disruption. It doesn’t have to be that costly however, according to speakers at last week’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference.

“Any time that you talk about tracking carbon and creating sustainability that really bad C-word comes up: cost,” said Daniel Gosson, manager of finished vehicle logistics for North America at logistics software specialist Inform. “People say, ‘it costs too much to do this and create sustainability’.”