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TRUCKING & INTERNET * UK - Shipping goes green as Shiply expands across Europe
Shiply calls itself an eBay for haulage companies
London,EN,UK -Venture Beat, by Ciara Byrne -August 20, 2010: ... Essentially, it’s a marketplace where users list items they want to move and haulage companies with spare capacity offer quotes. Shiply just launched in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and France. The company already had a presence in Germany as well as in its home base of the UK... Shiply specializes in longer journeys within and between European countries... Shiply offers two main advantages: price and CO2 reductions. Participating haulage companies transport Shiply deliveries in trucks that are already scheduled to travel on the given route. So they can afford to offer a reduction of up to 75% on the shipping cost of each new item. Haulage companies pay a transaction-based fee, which varies between 3.9% and 9.9% depending on the size of the quote. Shiply is also an eBay delivery partner in the UK... 25% of the haulage trucks on British roads run empty because they are on return trips... According to the web site, Shiply has 160,000 registered users, 16,500 registered haulage companies and receives 1,200 quote requests per day. Shiply was founded in Manchester in June 2008 and is self-funded... Shiply’s main competitor is the US-based company UShip, which expanded into Europe late last year with a German site... (Image via Flickr, by Ryan Holst)
* UK - Retrofit system cuts NOx on older engines
London,UK -Fleet Owner -Aug 24, 2010: -- Johnson Matthey has developed a four-way emissions control technology for on-road vehicles to cut NOx, carbon dioxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter. The SCRT System has been verified by the EPA, according to the company... The system is applicable to 1994-2002 model-year engines, and reduces NOx emissions by 70% and cuts CO, HC and PM emissions by more than 90%, the company said... Johnson Matthey created the system by combining a urea-based SCR system and a CRT particulate filter... Lassen expects the SCRT system to gain CARB approval later this year or early in 2011. Approval for use on model year 2003-2006 engines is expected later this year... The company is running more than 50 test units in California and Texas, with results showing NOx emissions reductions as much as 84%. Test units include both EGR and non-EGR engines... (Picture from matthey)
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