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AnPost: Steps to Reduce Your Mailings’ Carbon Footprint

Posted by | Jul 16, 2008 | |

Tanaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, Ms. Mary Coughlan T.D. launched ‘Six Steps to Reduce your Mailings’ Carbon Footprint’, direct mail guidelines jointly developed by the Irish Direct Marketing Association (IDMA) and An Post.

The guidelines are a practical and informative resource for Irish marketers in the planning and development of environmentally responsible direct mail campaigns.

Stephen Stynes, Chairman of the IDMA said: “Direct Marketing is a powerful medium and it gets results. Customers appreciate meaningful, relevant mail, particularly when it offers them special rates. The challenge is to grow the business responsibly, to continue to thrive and to contribute to the economy, whilst lessening our impact on the environment. IDMA members and our mail partners at An Post believe that today’s initiative is a blueprint for eco-friendly business practice. I encourage our members to implement these guidelines and to play their part in reducing our carbon footprint.”

Liam Sheehan, Director of Sales & Marketing, An Post concluded, “We recognise sustainability as a core business objective, and this partnership with the IDMA is a marketplace initiative which can help businesses to manage their costs and their carbon footprint when communicating directly with customers. Sustainability through environmental best practise, and profitable activity which meets customer needs are the goals in mind within the ‘Six Steps’ guidelines. An Post will continue to work with business to manage and develop Direct Mail and to deliver a real impact on direct marketing’s environmental footprint”.

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FedEx Hybrid-Electric Fleet Passes Two Million Miles

Posted by | Jul 10, 2008 | |

FedEx Express, announced that its hybrid truck fleet has surpassed 3.2 million kilometers, or more than two million miles of revenue service.

On average, the FedEx Express hybrid vehicles improve fuel economy by 42 percent, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 30 percent and cut particulate pollution by 96 percent.

With 10 new hybrid vehicles to be introduced into its European operations in June, FedEx Express is making strategic investments in projects that will help drive the development of new innovative technologies for the industry.

FedEx is committed to effective environmental management through investment in new technology and making its infrastructure and operations more efficient.

The FedEx Express hybrid vehicles are part of a broader sustainable transportation strategy, which includes the use of cleaner-technology vehicles, efficient-sized vehicles, optimized route restructuring and new fuel-efficient aircraft. In addition, FedEx Express is a founding member of CAREX, an association which promotes the development of a high-speed freight rail network within Europe, using existing rail links to deliver express cargo to Europe’s major trade points, thus reducing noise and carbon emissions.

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Deutsche Post World Net issues new Sustainability Report

Posted by | Jun 30, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post has released its new Sustainability Report titled “Changing Ways.” It focuses on current and planned projects in the core areas of the environment, employees and social responsibility.

Operating in nearly all countries around the globe, DHL also assumes responsibility for global challenges like climate change, the increasing scarcity of natural resources such as oil and relief efforts after natural disasters.

The CO2 efficiency of Deutsche Post World Net and its transport contractors is to be improved by 30 percent by 2020.

This means that emissions per mailed letter, per shipped ton and per square meter of used space must be reduced by nearly one-third compared with 2007. The report explains how the group will reach this goal.

Another pillar of the group’s sustainability strategy is to become the employer of choice for its more than 500,000 employees. “Our employees’ satisfaction, health and safety are top priorities,” says Personnel Director Walter Scheurle. A “Corporate Health Policy” has governed group-wide work and health protection around the world since 2007.

To ensure that Deutsche Post World Net employees travel safely, the company has developed a binding “Road Safety Code.” A new international initiative – “Discover Logistics” – promotes the search for management recruits in the logistics area.

Deutsche Post World Net also uses its own network to provide help around the world. The strategic partnership with the United Nations forms the heart of this effort. These humanitarian activities focus on disaster relief and prevention as well as on programs to reduce child mortality. Together with UNICEF, Deutsche Post World Net has helped cut the number of malaria deaths in Kenya.

And “DHL Disaster Response Teams” have been formed to support relief efforts in crisis regions – in cooperation with the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

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Aramex is first logistics company in Middle East to use hybrid vehicles

Posted by | Jun 29, 2008 | |

Aramex announced that it has introduced four hybrid cars to its ground fleet, becoming the first logistics company to use hybrid vehicles in the Middle East. The move is part of Aramex’s bid to help reduce its carbon foot print across the region, demonstrating the company’s commitment to environmental sustainability as it takes a step toward its ambitious goal of becoming the industry’s first carbon neutral provider.

At a critical time when high oil prices are putting a strain on the industry, the use of hybrid vehicles not only helps protect the environment, but also provides a cost effective solution to soaring fuel costs.

Using pioneering technology, the environmentally-friendly hybrid vehicles operate on two engines designed to minimise fuel consumption, while reducing the harmful emission of carbon dioxide.

Running on an electric motor and switching to fuel based on the load of the engine, it is estimated that hybrid cars reduce fuel costs and carbon emissions by 50.0 pct.

In-line with the Company’s drive to reduce its impact on the environment, Aramex has switched the majority of its fleet to unleaded fuel and is now looking at ways in which it can make its entire fleet environmentally-friendly.

As part of a comprehensive strategy outlined in its annual Corporate Sustainability Report (CSR), Aramex has set aggressive environmental targets, including the reduction of carbon emissions per shipment by 50.0 pct before 2009.

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European postal operators express support for fair level playing field

Posted by | Jun 25, 2008 | |

Further to the European Commission high level conference on Postal services on 24 June, 11 signatory postal operators from Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland and Slovakia express their support for the next steps towards Full Market Opening (FMO) of the European postal market under the balanced conditions embodied in the third postal directive.

The two key principles for the signatory operators are first and foremost the creation of mechanisms able to ensure the financing of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) all over the EU territory under FMO conditions, and the establishment of a true level playing field in all aspects, including social conditions.

In this perspective, the Member States have the responsibility to ensure balanced national regulatory frameworks that take into account the two mentioned principles.

Confronted with an uncertain economical environment where the question of financing or sharing the universal service is still under debate, the signatory operators call for special attention to the sustainability of the universal service and the postal market in its entirety. A study carried out in 2007 by the independent consulting firm Oxera demonstrated that the fundamental policy question to be asked is how the universal service obligations are to be financed.

The 11 signatory operators will continue to contribute to the implementation process in a positive and constructive manner, and with strong vigilance upon safeguarding the provision of universal service and the implementation of a level playing field.

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