Amazon’s 2025 sustainability report: What freight partners need to know

If you’re moving goods across the UK and EU, the carbon footprint of that journey is increasingly part of the conversation with your own customers and stakeholders.

Each year, Amazon publishes its Sustainability Report , tracking progress towards net-zero carbon emissions across our global operations by 2040 in a commitment known as The Climate Pledge. Here are the highlights for freight.

We are working with suppliers to electrify our freight network. When electrification is not an option, we choose lower carbon shipping options like using lower-carbon fuels.

For example, air freight is the most carbon-intensive way to ship, generating 40 to 50 times more CO₂e per ton-mile than ocean freight. The less inventory shipped by plane, the lower the emissions. In 2025, only 3% of our transoceanic shipments travelled by air, down from 10% in 2024.

For shipments that are transported by plane, we are investing in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—a lower-carbon alternative to conventional jet fuel that can reduce lifecycle emissions by up to 80%. In 2025, we purchased 18.2 million gallons of blended and Book and Claim SAF.

Ocean freight accounted for 97% of our transoceanic shipments in 2025. We purchased lower-emission biofuel services representing the maritime transportation of 14% of our ocean cargo, aligning with industry goals from the First Movers Coalition and the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA).

For overland transportation, we increased rail volume in Europe by 37%. In France, we launched high-speed rail parcel transportation—an Amazon first—utilising France’s TGV network to move over half a million packages between Paris and Lyon.

One of the ways we have been working to increase rail volume in Europe has been making Amazon-branded trailers more versatile for rail transportation. We have partnered with several companies to integrate technology that allows us to flexibly and quickly move our standard trailers between trucks and trains. We are also continuing to explore inland waterways and passenger trains as part of our Intermodal City Injections programme.

We are also adding electric heavy goods vehicles (eHGVs) to our middle-mile transportation network and actively seeking to work with carriers with eHGVs in their fleets. Our middle-mile network included more than 360 eHGVs at the end of 2025.

Scaling eHGVs requires shippers, fleet operators, financing, infrastructure providers, and equipment manufacturers to develop concentrated areas that can support electric truck deployments. We are collaborating with others, including through joint action projects of The Climate Pledge signatories, to advance the improvements in charging infrastructure and electrical grids required to enable more widespread use of eHGVs, including in our middlemile network.

For long-haul transportation, we recognise that limited visibility is one of the most common safety challenges across the industry, particularly in conditions like fog, heavy rain, or darkness. Because our Amazon-branded trailers are on highways every day, we have invested in making them more visible.

We’ve added highly reflective tape to Amazon-branded trailers, and this year, we’re expanding that effort with enhanced lighting and bright white rear doors on all new trailers. Greater visibility helps other drivers recognise our trailers sooner, giving them more time to react and maintain safe following distances in low-visibility conditions.

We have also made safety enhancements to Relay, the tool carriers use to book and execute work. We continue to strengthen carrier and driver identity verification and authentication to ensure consistent safety standards nationwide that exceed Department of Transportation requirements.

Once drivers are on the road, the Relay mobile app supports them with route-specific weather forecasts and in-app alerts to changing conditions. Our active weather response system proactively identifies and cancels loads affected by severe weather such as blizzards, ice storms, and high-wind warnings.

Drivers also receive pre-trip briefings that include route options designed for commercial vehicles along with current road and weather conditions. Additionally, they have access to one-tap parking search to find safe rest stops, and can monitor real-time traffic visibility—all designed to help them make informed decisions and stay safe from start to finish.

We recognise that the path to becoming a more sustainable company isn’t a straight line, and that growth and decarbonisation don’t always move in step. We remain committed to the work, continuing to scale the progress we have made this year across electric vehicles, lower-carbon fuels, and the transport innovations that will shape the next decade of decarbonisation.

Read the full sustainability report here.

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