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Item Green Logistics Practices and Challenges in Logistics Service Providers, Case Study on Panafric Global Plc.(Addis Ababa University, 2021-09) Tadesse, Firezer; Jebena, Tarku (PhD)In the last 10 years the radical change of the environment, becomes a deep concern to the world. Understanding and placing a greenhouse emission on the strategies of the company policies are not only for the competitiveness of their organization it's rather becoming fundamental for the living. In these regards the research aim to assess the practices and challenges of implementing the green logistics in the logistics service providers by taking a case on Panafric global plc. The research mainly focused on two key points, the strategies the company uses and challenges its facing. To achieve its objective the researcher guided by three interrelated research questions, data collection were made using both qualitative and quantitative methods. For the quantitative a total of 32 questionnaire distributed to the management and employee of the company and returned 22 of them with a respondent rate of 70.7%. For the qualitative, an interview taken place to assess the necessary data for the study and based on the data gathered its analyzed and interpreted. The result classifies three variables; awareness of the green logistics, the strategies and the challenges that the logistics sectors faces on practicing green initiatives. In general, its noted that customer awareness requires to be improved and the constraint on practicing green logistics are both material wise and human resource as well as government policies. Thus the company need to create an awareness to its customers and the government requires to take different type of approaches to persuade all the stockholders in order to see a substantial change on the green practice.