Sustainable Shipping Solutions
Help Your Customers ‘Go Green’ with Sustainable Delivery Solutions
Convert more customers and boost operational efficiency
What is sustainable shipping?
Sustainable shipping is the delivery of eCommerce orders in a way that reduces environmental impact across the parcel journey, from collection and routing through to final-mile delivery and returns. The right sustainable shipping solution combines lower-emission vehicles, consolidated collections, out-of-home delivery points and carbon-neutral service options – giving shoppers greener choices at the checkout without retailers negotiating with individual carriers.
Introduce Sustainable Shipping or Risk Losing Sales
Becoming more sustainable isn’t just important for the planet, it’s important to your customers:
of shoppers are more likely to choose a retailer that offers more sustainable delivery options
of shoppers are willing to delay their delivery if it means a more sustainable outcome
of 18–34-year-old shoppers say they are willing to pay more for environmentally sustainable shipping
Climate change is on everyone’s minds, and a growing question for the future of eCommerce is the impact of parcel distribution on global emissions. Global eCommerce deliveries are forecast to grow from 315 billion parcels in 2022 to 800 billion by 2030, and without a shift to cleaner fleets, last-mile delivery emissions could rise to 25 million metric tons of CO₂ by the end of the decade.
eCommerce businesses are increasingly asking how they can reduce their environmental impact without compromising on customer experience.
GFS is here to make it simple while improving cost and operational efficiency.
1. Go Multi-Carrier
Carriers are working to introduce more sustainable delivery options, but they are at different stages in their own sustainable journey and can’t offer all the delivery options you need. That’s why the best way to become more sustainable is to work with a multi-carrier partner.
2. Consolidate your orders
Reduce first mile costs and emissions as our GFS operations team look at consolidating multi-carrier collections into a single convenient collection.
3. Offer customers more sustainable options
GFS can give you access to the widest range of final mile green delivery options all under one roof. Plus, with state-of-the-art technology, we make it easy to offer those options at checkout.
At hampers.com, we care passionately about being sustainable and being a business for positive change. A key area for us in our sustainability journey is reducing our carbon footprint, and an important part of this process is introducing sustainable shipping. When we spoke with our GFS Account Manager about our green goals, they put together the right mix of shipping services aligned with our objective so we could initiate our steps towards sustainable delivery.
Over time, we are looking at growing our commitment and GFS has truly been the one-stop shop to access all the green delivery options available today. And that’s what we love about working with GFS – the power of choice with multiple carriers so we can continue moving forward on our wider green goals.
Reduce both CO2 and Costs
The UK’s Net Zero by 2050 commitment means sustainability is shifting from a customer-experience question to a regulatory one. Through our managed multi-carrier access, GFS continues to grow our range of sustainable shipping options alongside the carriers as they expand their electric fleets and low-emissions networks.
Combined with proactive consolidation of shipments and ECM technology to boost operational efficiency, it has never been simpler to go greener without adding cost. And because every avoided return saves two journeys, our returns management services add a further sustainability lever by cutting return rates at the root.
References
Blue Yonder 2025 Sustainability Survey,
McKinsey 2024 Consumer Survey
