Though they aren’t green enough yet, I’m pretty sure that big guys like UPS, FedEx and DHL will always be on top when it comes to shipping your items. However, from time to time, smaller companies with innovative ideas are trying to bring new solutions to the market to get their name out.

A very good example is First Global Xpress (FGX) that is proposing a faster, cheaper, greener solution to shipping a package, than what we’ve been used with.

They self-praise with the fact that their system is avoiding the traditional hub-and-spoke method that require additional flights (usually more than two) and have cut shipping time by as much as 24 hours, shipping costs up to 20% and carbon emissions by at least 30% per package only using one flight.

How do they do it? The company has partnered with over 100 commercial airlines that serve as third party carriers. Also worth mentioning is the fact that FGX’s boxes and envelopes are all made of recycled materials, use vegetable-based inks and that for the NYC area they use hybrid cars from East Coast Limousine.

Today, FGX ships 250,000 packages each year and registers $10 million in sales. Do you think they’ll ever play in the big league in a green/eco-friendly way?

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