Meaning of green for 3PL companies

Abstract

In today's competitive environment managing green becoming environmentally friendly and sustainable has become main topic for all industries and companies. Therefore in this chapter it will be addressed how green logistics solutions and practices can help companies to increase their performance with specific practices cases and results from Turkey's 3PL service providers' side. This chapter will discuss why being green is important for 3PL companies and the benefits of being green from the business and environment side with current data and real life examples. The main purpose of this chapter is to shed light on green performance indicators and to identify benefits of being green for 3PL companies in Turkey. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.