During the June transport and logistics trade fair, DHL presented a new product intended for the German market – the “Green Parcel”. With this product, specialists from Deutsche Post World Net’s Express and Logistics divisions are launching the first environmentally friendly parcel transport service.
Shipments will be transported by vehicles powered by renewable fuels, such as biogas, which emit trace amounts of greenhouse gases compared to vehicles using conventional fuels.
The “Green Parcel” service was developed in cooperation with the German mail-order company Triaz, which supplies customers with products from the Waschbar and Panda brands. The first environmentally friendly transport using vehicles powered by renewable fuels will take place in July of this year, with the shipment of the company’s autumn-winter offer catalogs. The agreement between DHL and Triaz will not require customers to pay additional fees for the transport service that complies with environmental protection standards.
For its project using ecological means of transport, aimed at protecting the environment, Triaz was awarded the DHL Environmental Award 2005 by Monika Wulf-Mathies, Head of the Department of Policy and Environmental Protection at Deutsche Post World Net. – For DPWN, environmental protection means both the efficient use of existing resources and the improvement of their quality – for example, through the purchase of 70 new delivery vans powered by biogas, as well as offering our customers innovative logistics products and services that remain in line with environmental protection requirements – said Monika Wulf-Mathies.
Triaz transports approximately 7 million catalogs and 1 million parcels annually, which can be converted into emissions of about 850 tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. By implementing tools related to climate protection defined in the Kyoto Protocol, carbon dioxide emissions will be significantly reduced. The cooperation between DHL and Triaz will support reforestation efforts in Bhutan, where forests were illegally cut down, support a social project for building solar batteries in Sri Lanka as part of the development of alternative energy sources, and also help in rebuilding the local infrastructure destroyed as a result of the recent tsunami attack.