Japan Post to sell its resort hotels to Orix Real Estate
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Read MoreDHL goes green with e-billing service
DHL is hoping to cut its carbon footprint by offering customers an e-billing service.
DHL plans to eliminate more than a third of the 18 million paper invoices it sends to European customers every year by 2010. The firm will do this by offering customers an e-billing option, whereby users login to an online portal to view and receive information about their invoices. As a result, the courier expects to save the equivalent of 2,400 trees and 600 tonnes of C02 a year.
DHL has already begun using e-billing in Europe, and expects to continue its existing success.
“The success of our e-billing project has already delivered significant environmental savings but this is a drop in the ocean compared to what we intend to achieve in the near future,” said Brian Thumwood, DHL’s E-Billing Manager for Europe.
UPS first in industry to purchase hydraulic hybrid vehicles
As part of a public-private partnership to increase the commercial availability and use of alternative fuel vehicles, UPS announced its first purchases of a little-known technology – the hydraulic hybrid vehicle – that promises dramatic fuel savings and environmental benefits.
The technology, originally developed in a federal laboratory of the Environmental Protection Agency, stores energy by compressing hydraulic fluid under pressure in a large chamber.
Disclosing the results of its road testing on Detroit routes for the first time, UPS and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the prototype vehicle had achieved a 45-to-50 percent improvement in fuel economy compared to conventional diesel delivery trucks. UPS believes similar fuel economy improvements and a 30 percent reduction in CO2 are achievable in daily, real-world use. The EPA believes the technology can perform equally well in other applications such as shuttle and transit buses and refuse pick-up trucks.
UPS will deploy the first two of the new HHV’s in Minneapolis during the first quarter of 2009.
UPS’s current “green fleet” totals more than 1,600 low-carbon vehicles, including all-electric, hybrid electric, compressed natural gas (CNG), liquefied natural gas (LNG) and propane-powered trucks.
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