Rhenus, Shipzero launch strategic partnership to scale book and claim across air, ocean and road transport

The Rhenus Group announced in mid-August that it has formed a strategic partnership with Shipzero, a leading global emissions-intelligence platform.

Under the agreement, Rhenus customers gain access to a book-and-claim solution designed to reduce climate impact of global transports, covering alternative fuels and battery-electric vehicles across air, ocean and road transport.

As a multimodal logistics-service provider, Rhenus relies heavily on external transport capacity.

The company is therefore introducing a book-and-claim approach as a solution to reduce the climate impact of transport emissions in areas where Rhenus has no direct influence over the underlying assets.

Book and claim is advantageous here by allowing companies to support lower-emission transport solutions outside the physical transport chain of a specific shipment, with the climate benefit allocated through a verified accounting system.

Thanks to Shipzero’s auditable platform, companies are less reliant on manual processes and data processing.

Scope, availability

Through the partnership, Rhenus customers can book alternative fuel and battery-electric transport solutions on a single-shipment basis or through larger, ongoing or retroactive agreements.

The solution is available across Rhenus air, ocean and road operations, supported by Shipzero’s platform and methodology.

The partnership responds to rising demand across the industry.

Book and claim has become a widely accepted instrument for reducing the impact of logistics emissions, particularly for companies with limited control over the physical assets moving their goods.

“By partnering with Shipzero, we aim to scale solutions such as battery-electric vehicles, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and sustainable marine fuel (SMF) to drive the sustainable transformation with our carriers,” said Adrian Wojnowski, Rhenus’ manager of sustainable solutions and decarbonization. “As more companies commit to science-based targets, auditable book-and-claim accounting becomes an increasingly important foundation for credible decarbonization efforts, and Shipzero’s independently verified approach enables us to deliver exactly that to our customers.”

A trusted, verifiable approach

Rhenus said it has chosen to partner with Shipzero because the platform offers a robust and auditable solution.

Its multimodal coverage and methodological alignment were also key factors.

“We’re proud that Rhenus, as a global, multimodal logistics provider, has placed its trust in Shipzero to deliver audit-ready CO2-reduction tracking, built on a methodology aligned with ISO 14083 and the Market-based Measures (MBM) Framework, down to the last detail—for their business and for their customers,” said Martin Jacobs, the director of client solutions at Shipzero. “It’s exactly the kind of partnership we want to keep building on.”

Methodology, regulatory context

A reliable and verifiable methodology was a key selection criterion for Rhenus when choosing a partner.

The book-and-claim approach offered by Shipzero has been audited by the independent certification body Müller-BBM Cert and complies with the Smart Freight Centre’s MBM Framework as well as ISO standard 14083 and the Global Logistics Emissions Council Framework.

The emissions reductions achieved are reported separately from scopes 1-3 emissions in accordance with the requirements of the GHG Protocol.

This enables companies to transparently track and document the savings achieved.