Implementation and development of GLI:X green logistics indicators in South Africa : final report

The aim of the project "Implementation and further development of the GLI:X - Green Logistics Indicators in South Africa" was to build on the results and successes achieved in the previous GLI:X projects I-II and to further develop and apply the GLI:X indicator system developed within the framework of these projects for other logistics-relevant cities and regions in South Africa in a participatory manner. In the project, an indicator system of more than 50 indicators for more efficient, sustainable, safer and socially equitable logistics was developed through a participatory process and stakeholder building with the province of Gauteng, German companies and business partners, NGOs and others. The project received a very high level of political support from the outset, as improving logistics was a key issue for future stability and sustainable growth in South Africa. As a result, after only half a year since the project began, a far-reaching cooperation agreement was signed between BMU and Gauteng Province. Parallel to this, concrete projects have already been implemented in GLI:X II, such as the initiation and monitoring of the procurement and use of e-bikes for an NGO, developed by a Berlin start-up. In the course of the current GLI:X III project, the stakeholders involved increasingly wished to broaden the scope of the project and to arrive at a concrete application process. For this reason, a roadmap framework for implementing the GLI:X Smart Freight Corridor from Gauteng-Durban was developed, with the aim of finding a cost-effective, easy-to-implement solution through the collection and processing of data, leading to an improved overall management of logistics traffic along a Smart Freight Corridor. The Green Logistics Indicators (GLI:X) project will end after 4 years in summer 2021 and will be continued in the new sub-project Green Logistic Corridor (GLC).