Sagawa Express Begins Using Bio-fuels for Pickup/Delivery Trucks
Sagawa Express Co, Ltd., a member of the SG Holdings Group, conducts trial use of “bio-natural gas” in natural gas vehicles, while also commencing use of “biogasoline” in cargo minivans (gasoline-fueled), with the aim of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its pickup/delivery trucks.
The Kobe municipal government, together with a private company, co-developed a device to purify digestion gas from sewage treatment, using a high-pressure water absorption method, and to use resulting “bio-natural gas” with a methane level of over 98 pct. The municipal government has been conducting demonstration experiments since 2006, with such public vehicles as city buses and garbage trucks.
In May 2003, Sagawa Express became the first Japanese company– and the world’s only logistics company– to join the Climate Savers Programme, a global warming prevention program run by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Under this program, the company aims at reducing total CO2 emissions from our business activities at a rate of 6 pct by year 2012, in comparison with the base year of 2002.
As a means of achieving this goal, the company has established a plan to introduce a cumulative total of 7,000 natural gas vehicles by the year 2012; so far we have introduced 3,394 natural gas vehicles– the most such vehicles owned by one Japanese company– and have installed a total of 7 in-house natural gas stations.
