Japanese parcels carrier Sagawa Express is starting to use bio-fuels for its delivery fleet in itslatest environmental move. It has also published a new sustainability report.
The company said it is trialling the use of “bio-natural gas” in several natural gasvehicles, while also commencing use of “bio-gasoline” in vans with the aim of reducing carbondioxide (CO2) emissions from its pickup/delivery trucks.
The bio-natural gas trials are being conducted in the city of Kobe and are being supported bythe local city authority. Separately, the company will start to use bio-gasoline for some deliveryvehicles in Tokyo and three other prefectures (Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba).
Sagawa Express said that in May 2003 it became the first Japanese company– and the world’sonly logistics company– to join the Climate Savers Programme, a global warming prevention programrun by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Under this program, the company aims to reduce its total CO2emissions at a rate of 6% by year 2012, in comparison with the base year of 2002.
As a means of achieving this goal, it has established a plan to introduce a total of 7,000natural gas vehicles by the year 2012; so far 3,394 natural gas vehicles have joined the fleet.
“To fulfil our responsibility as an enterprise using vehicles as operation tools, we willcontinue to actively introduce natural gas vehicles, while also promoting the evaluation and use ofvarious alternative fuels, thereby to engage in business operations that are friendly to theenvironment,” parent company SG Holdings said in a statement.
