Environmental logistics developement : the comparison of Chinese environmental logistics and developed country's logistics

Sammanfattning: Logistics is regard as enterprise's "third profit source" and in the process of global industrialization it plays an important role. Many industries improve logistics conditions to reduce operating costs, and they attempt to obtain a new competitive advantage. With the development of the economy, culture, ideology, public and the gradually strengthen of the awareness of logistic, there is another heat topic attracted a lot of researchers-the environmental logistics. With the effect of the environmental logistic, more and more people realize that they must emphasize and value the natural environment, and inspired by the environmental logistic there are also lots of new topic came to be discussed, i.e. the coordinated development of the green economy. The environmental logistics as the indispensable part in economic development can deal with how to help the economic and the environment harmonious coexistence with each other. Thus, the development of green logistics has become major issue for global economic development nowadays. In this paper, we make a comparison of Chinese and developed country's green logistic statue, then identify the development of green logistics problems and propose solutions. The case companies we choose are COSCO international Freight Co., Ltd and the Panalpian Ltd. company. We connect these two companies and sent out questionnaires, based on their answers, we considered some elements which affect the difference between companies in Chinese and developed countries. We test these elements on SPSS, and carry out elements effecting environmental logistics. Based on this questionnaires,  we find out huge differences between these two companies, meanwhile there are five factors we summarized which influencing the gap between China and developed country in environmental logistics. Therefore, we give some suggestions for China's environmental future logistics.