TNT Express wins Hanse Globe 2007 award
TNT Express has won the new “Hanse Globe 2007” award for sustainable logistics organised by the public-private body Logistik-Initiative Hamburg.
“Many companies have applied with their future-oriented projects,” commented Dr. Mojib Latif, professor for ocean circulation and climate dynamics at Leibniz Institute for sea sciences in Kiel and chairman of the jury. “TNT’s worldwide sustainability project ‘Planet me’ for the reduction of CO2 emissions was very convincing,” he said. “It comprises the whole TNT business worldwide, including 31 locations in Germany.”
In Germany, for example, TNT Express deploys 156 natural gas vehicles in cities that produce hardly any emissions, as well as ecological vans with soot particle filters and modern technologies for route optimizing.
Additionally, the company has invested in 60 video conference systems to reduce business trips, and builds new branches taking environmental issues into account. In the new Hamburg-Allermöhe depot, for example, an integrated leafy roof area makes for a better heat balance and a convenient micro-climate. Moreover, TNT minimises its consumption of water, energy and electricity.
The Logistik-Initiative Hamburg brings together some 300 companies and institutions in Hamburg with the aim of developing the city’s position as the leading logistics metropolis in Northern Europe.
