Go Green Calculators from INTTRA: Calculate Cost-Savings and Trees Saved Through Electronic Commerce
December 01, 2009
INTTRA Develops Green Calculators to Help Businesses Understand the Monetary and Environmental Impact of Reducing Paper Consumption
Parsippany, NJ, December 1, 2009 – INTTRA, the leading electronic commerce platform for the ocean freight industry, has developed 'green' calculators to demonstrate how switching from manual processes, that use extraneous amounts of printed paper, to electronic commerce will not only save companies time and money, but will help the environment as well.
In today's economic climate companies need to become more efficient to save money and reduce operating expenses. Organizations also need to be aware of their impact on the environment. For example, the typical employee in the United States uses approximately 10,000 sheets of copy paper every year1. According to a report by the Environmental Paper Network2, the United States uses more paper than any other country in the world. Not only is over-consumption reducing national forests, it is wasting millions of corporate dollars.
One industry that has taken the lead in reducing paper consumption is the airline industry. E-tickets have quickly replaced paper tickets for many airlines, including Delta and United. The concert industry has also started to use e-tickets, not only to decrease paper use, but to help prevent scalping and increase security. Industries that have switched to electronic commerce have saved millions by reducing paper costs and following more efficient methods.
"Going 'green' is not just a trendy buzzword for businesses – it's about saving real money in the organization, reducing waste and increasing efficiency," said John DeBenedette, VP commercial at INTTRA. "There is a need for a more streamlined, cost-effective and environmentally conscious booking process for the shipping industry in particular. Through our recent study of electronic transactions on our platform we found our users alone are saving potentially 25,000 trees annually. That's a lot of 'green' in terms of cost-savings and reducing CO2 but it doesn't even account for the opportunity cost of manual processes that are eating away at profit margins."
INTTRA has spearheaded the electronic commerce revolution in the ocean shipping industry by creating products that reduce or eliminate the use of printing paper. Using the information generated from their electronic commerce platform, INTTRA conducted a study to understand how much money, time and trees the shipping industry could save by making the switch to electronic commerce. The results show that the INTTRA platform, which handles 10% of global container transactions, potentially saves more than 222 million sheets of paper annually for shipment documentation and printed messages. INTTRA has developed "green" calculators to show just how much money, time and trees companies can be saved by switching to electronic commerce.
DeBenedette continued, "The environmental benefits of using e-commerce extend far beyond the paper it saves. By leveraging the speed and accuracy of more timely electronic information, much of the carbon-intensive physical side of the global containerized supply chain, (such as origin and destination side trucking and vessel operations), can benefit from improved planning and optimization ability."
Learn more about INTTRA and take advantage of its 'Go Green' Calculators by visiting, www.inttra.com/home/Pages/Go_Green_With_INTTRA.aspx
1 Cutting Paper, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division http://eetd.lbl.gov/paper/ideas/html/uspaperuse.htm
2 For more information about the Environmental Paper Network report, please visit: http://www.environmentalpaper.org/documents/paperefficiencyfactsheet.pdf
About INTTRA
INTTRA is a leading global provider of e-commerce solutions to the ocean freight industry. INTTRA professionals work with over 30 leading carriers and their customers, to streamline and standardize their shipping processes worldwide through a network of more than 20,000 corporate locations. Over 300,000 container orders are initiated on the INTTRA platform each week, representing more than 10 percent of global ocean container trade. For further information, visit www.inttra.com.
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