Sustainability has been a topic of growing interest over the past years with many governments, organizations, and companies trying to reach the SDGs set by the European Union. The major challenge of implementing more sustainable practices within the corporate environments is still in the foreground probably even in higher demand due to the intense environmental degradation and the strict deadlines related to the decarbonization and shift toward greener production systems. Thus, in this work, we investigate the wider “Transportation” sector through the prism of sustainability by collecting and analysing publicly available data on the LinkedIn social media platform. More precisely, 1640 LinkedIn profiles registered as “companies” have been mined and analysed providing valuable insights regarding the business mapping of companies with a “transportation” orientation in the European Union with only 250 of them including “sustainable” keywords in any part of their profile (15.2%). 

The preliminary analysis showed some interesting results regarding the geographical distribution of those companies with 415 of them, having their headquarters outside of the European Union. The leading countries are Germany (206), the United States of America (191), France (143), the Netherlands (110), and Italy with just under 100 companies (98). From a macroscopic point of view, “Transportation/Trucking/Railroad”, “Information Technology & Services”, “Logistics & Supply Chain”, “Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing”, “Computer Software”, and “Mechanical or Industrial Engineering”, are the dominant industry sectors with 426, 132, 121, 67, 65, and 61 company profiles, respectively.