DHL Express successfully improved its CO2 efficiency in Asia Pacific by 19% last year, includinga 9% reduction in CO2 emissions. India scored particularly well within the region.
Overall, the company reduced CO2 emissions in the Asia Pacific region by 13 million kilogramsfor 2009, which represented a 9% reduction in CO2 emissions and which yielded a €10 million savingsin overall energy and ground vehicular fuel costs, through its region-wide carbon footprintassessment and abatement programme.
These are the first results of the carbon footprint assessment and abatement program which wasstarted by DHL Express in 2008 covering over 1,000 facilities in 27 markets across Asia Pacific.The purpose of the assessment was to measure and reduce DHL Express’ carbon footprint from energyconsumption in real estate and its transport fleet.
“As the world’s leading express company, we are committed to sustainability and have aresponsibility to address environmental challenges. Across Asia Pacific, we took steps to reduceour carbon footprint and improve energy efficiency, optimising delivery routes, switching to clearfuels and consolidating facilities in the region. The results of our assessment are a greatencouragement – clearly with our commitment to sustainable solutions, we can make a difference,”said John Pearson, CEO, DHL Express, Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa(APEM).
Within the region, India registered one of the best scores for the reduction of CO2 emissions.DHL Express India saw a reduction of 1.7 million kilograms of CO2 emissions across close to 150sites of operations. It reduced its per unit CO2 emissions by 40% year-on-year in ground transportand registered a 24% reduction per unit CO2 emissions in its real estate energy consumption. Havingreduced its per unit Ground Transport Fuel consumption by 6% and improved its per unit CO2emissions from real estate by 32%, Indian subsidiary Blue Dart saw an improvement on CO2 efficiencyby 10% year-on-year.
In India, DHL Express’s internal initiatives included optimising delivery routes, switching toclean fuels and consolidating facilities in the country. For Blue Dart, measures included raisingawareness and close monitoring of energy expenditures, route optimisation for its vehicles andintroducing fuel-efficient vehicles.
“Fleet optimisation was one of key areas for emission improvement in India. DHL Express reviewedareas where we predominantly delivered documents and replaced over 60 vehicles with 75 motorbikesthereby increasing fuel efficiency. Blue Dart, which operates over 5,000 vehicles, worked onsubstituting air routes with intercity road line haul. At the same time, we have implemented pickup and delivery optimisation measures to further enhance our operational efficiency and servicelevels for customers,” said Malcolm Monteiro, Senior Vice President and Area Director, South Asiafor DHL Express.
The Asia Pacific CO2 reduction activities are part of Deutsche Post DHL’s global GoGreen ClimateProtection Programme.
