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About EcoFreight

The problem

Freight transport accounts for roughly 8% of global CO2 emissions. Most companies that ship goods have no easy way to measure this. The data exists — emission factors for every vehicle type, fuel, and route — but it's locked in PDFs, spreadsheets, and consulting reports that cost thousands of dollars.

If you're a developer building a logistics platform, a 3PL tracking shipments, or a retailer reporting Scope 3 emissions, you shouldn't need a sustainability consultant to get a number.

What we built

EcoFreight is an API that calculates freight CO2 emissions. You send us an origin, destination, cargo weight, and transport mode. We return a certified emissions breakdown — WTW, TTW, and WTT — using the GLEC Framework v3.2 emission factors, aligned with ISO 14083.

It works for road, rail, sea, and air. Responses come back in under 50ms. There's a free tier with 1,000 calls per month, no credit card required.

Founded 2024

EcoFreight was founded in 2024 to close the gap between freight carbon accounting standards and the engineers expected to implement them. Sustainability teams had methodologies. Logistics teams had shipment data. Nobody had a programmable bridge between them. We built one.

What that looks like today, in numbers we publish openly on /quality:

  • 28 long-form blog posts on freight emissions methodology and policy
  • 50+ named trade lanes with mode-specific emission breakdowns
  • 80+ glossary terms covering GLEC, ISO 14083, CSRD, GHG Protocol
  • 119+ prerendered HTML routes with full structured data for search engines
  • 0 production npm audit vulnerabilities at last build

The snapshot is regenerated on every deploy and lives at /quality-snapshot.json.

Methodology grounding

EcoFreight uses GLEC Framework v3.2 default emission factors aligned with ISO 14083:2023. Methodology is reviewed annually; the changelog is at /methodology/changelog. We're not currently SFC-accredited — that's the next step. Status updates on /quality.

Every factor we apply is sourced and dated. See /methodology for the full breakdown and /sources for the citation list.

Team

Our content is written by named team members with technical accountability. Bios and full publication lists at /authors/.

Headquarters & contact

Operating remotely. Primary contact is email; we route by topic so you reach the right person without a switchboard.

What we don't do

Being explicit about scope prevents conflicts of interest from creeping into methodology decisions:

  • We don't sell carbon offsets.
  • We don't operate a marketplace for credits, brokers, or verifiers.
  • We don't take affiliate revenue from offset providers or registries.
  • We don't accept sponsored content on the blog.

Our revenue is API subscriptions and enterprise contracts. That's the entire model.

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Where we're going

Right now we cover the four major transport modes with secondary emission factors (GLEC Tier 2). Here's what we're working toward:

  • Primary data support (Tier 1) — let carriers plug in actual fuel consumption and vehicle data for higher-accuracy calculations
  • Multi-leg routing — handle intermodal shipments (e.g. truck to port, ship across ocean, rail to warehouse) in a single API call
  • Reporting and compliance — generate reports that meet EU ETS, CSRD, and SEC climate disclosure requirements
  • SFC accreditation — third-party verification of our methodology implementation
  • Regional granularity — country-specific grid emission factors for electric vehicles and rail, seasonal shipping lane data

Why it matters

Regulation is catching up. The EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires large companies to disclose transport emissions. California's Advanced Clean Fleets rule is pushing fleet operators to track CO2. ICAO's CORSIA scheme is expanding to cover more aviation.

Companies that can measure emissions now will be better positioned when reporting becomes mandatory. We want to make that measurement as easy as making an API call.

Press & links

Media kit, high-res logos, fact sheet, and reporter contact are at /press. For interviews and dataset requests, email press@ecofreight.co.

Questions? Want to talk about integration? Get in touch.