Logistics is an important part of the supply chain process that plans, implements and controls efficient and effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet customers’ requirements. Industrial logistics is even more specialised and touches a wide range of topics related to production/warehousing site supervision, demand planning, production control, environmental management issues and so forth. This paper belongs to a part of environmental issues in logistics management, which is classified as a special issue of industrial logistics systems