Dutch TNT to equip vehicles with smoke filters
Dutch mail, express and logistics company TNT NV, former TPG NV, will equip its 4,500 operating vehicles with smoke filters, the company’s chief executive officer (CEO) Peter Bakker said on September 13, 2005.
According to Bakker, it is crucial that TNT contributes to a clean environment.
TNT, together with the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment (VROM), will conduct a study on the types of smoke filters, that are suitable for the company’s various diesel cars and vans. The study is to be completed by the middle of 2006, after which the subsidy from the ministry for the so-called retrofit will be utilised.
The VROM will publish the exact amount of the subsidy later in 2006.
[Editor’s note: TNT posted a net profit of 210 mln euro ($258.3 mln) for the second quarter of 2005, unchanged from the same period of 2004, the Dutch News Digest reported on July 29, 2005.]
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