DPD has been honoured with this year’s HANSE GLOBE, Hamburg’s award for sustainable logistics,recognising the carbon-neutral parcel shipping concept the company implemented this year
Europe-wide.Since July 2012, DPD has been shipping all parcels in a carbon-neutral way as part of its ‘TotalZero’ initiative. At no extra cost for customers, it is available in the company’s core Europeanmarkets including France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland and BeLux.
DPD CEO Arnold Schroven said: “With our carbon-neutral shipping, we are pointing the way forwardwithin the logistics industry – protecting the environment is becoming an indispensable part of ourbusiness. For us, the HANSE GLOBE award is an incentive to continue with the course we have taken,and to take even more responsibility for the environment.”
The launch of Total Zero was announced in the beginning of this year as part of a wider CO2commitment by Groupe La Poste to offset all mail and parcels sent globally via the service. Thiscombined action of mail and parcels is a major step forward towards climate protection.
The carbon neutral commitment is achieved through a triple mechanism: measuring emitted carbon,reducing the carbon produced by DPD and subsequently carbon offsetting. In addition, DPD offers itscustomers with immediate effect a free CO2-calculation reflecting all the CO2 emissions generatedthrough parcel shipping by all means of transport. The calculation can be made on the level of eachindividual shipment considering specific features such as the size, weight and transportationroute.
Professor Dr. Uwe Clausen, chairman of the 2012 HANSE GLOBE jury, added: “DPD has not justimplemented individual measures but presented a comprehensive concept for carbon-neutral shippingthrough a combination of measuring, reducing and offsetting its CO2 emissions. This is whatimpressed us the most!”
The award was presented in the course of a festive Logistics Dinner organised by the HamburgSenate at the city’s Town Hall this month. The dinner was hosted by Olaf Scholz, Mayor of the FreeHanseatic City, who welcomed over 320 guests active in politics, business and science.
