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ALASKA AIR CARGO alaskaair.com Alaska Air Cargo continues to find innovative ways to reduce the environmental impact of services, facilities, and equipment. Alaska Air Cargo’s environmental strategy encompasses four main areas: 75 GREEN reduce emissions from planes and equipment, waste from flights and other facilities, consumption of non- sustainable resources, and energy use SUPPLY in its buildings. CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions ❱ Reuse/recycling program CHAIN ❱ Reduce energy usage NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERS The airline’s 2020 goal is to reduce mainline emissions 20 percent per revenue ton mile over 2009 levels. Inbound Logistics features its annual G75—a carefully curated list of 75 companies that go above and beyond to ensure their global supply chains are sustainable, and their operations are socially ARCBEST and environmentally friendly. These companies have spent years developing and implementing best practices to ensure the footprint arcb.com they leave on the world is a positive one. In 1976, ArcBest LTL carrier ABF Freight began limiting its trucks’ maximum speeds to conserve fuel and reduce emissions. The company’s new trucks 48FORTY SOLUTIONS have computerized engine shut- offs to reduce idling and minimize 48forty.com fuel consumption. The company 48forty uses recycled pallets to offer follows an equipment maintenance/ customers sustainable pallet solutions. replacement program, so the average The company repairs damaged pallets age of its linehaul tractors is rarely and sends them back into the pool. more than two years. 48forty disassembles battered pallets and salvages boards that can be used in CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES other pallets. It even chips the unusable bits and uses them as landscape mulch ❱ Reduce energy usage or for biofuel. ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions ❱ CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Energy-efficient equipment ❱ Reuse/recycling program 48forty has 90 million pallets in ❱ Reuse/recycling program ❱ Sustainable packaging force. It uses and repairs each pallet NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT ❱ Sustainably source materials about 10 times, ultimately shredding ❱ Waste minimization through them for mulch. ABF Freight has been a SmartWay Lean manufacturing partner since 2006 and winner of the 2014 SmartWay Excellence Award. June 2018 • Inbound Logistics 45 AMERICAN AIRLINES AVERITT EXPRESS ALLIANCE SHIPPERS CARGO averittexpress.com alliance.com aacargo.com Aside from investing in newer and Alliance’s EverGreen refrigeration Ever since employees led the Fuel cleaner technologies and equipment, units are equipped with two-way Smart initiative in 2005, American Averitt helps shippers reduce their cellular tracking devices. They draw Airlines has saved millions of gallons carbon footprint through strategies power from a battery source within of fuel from being consumed by its that include returnable totes to the units, allowing them to always aircraft and support vehicles, while replace corrugate waste and the use have a GPS location on assets as well also cutting millions of pounds of of climate-controlled LTL units to cut as the ability to turn the refrigeration CO2 emissions from being thrust into reliance on foam containers and dry unit on and off at any time. Solar the atmosphere. ice. It works closely with companies panels allow Alliance to use the sun’s to identify mutually beneficial supply energy to continuously charge the CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES chain strategies that are also green- batteries on its trailers. ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions minded. ❱ Reuse/recycling program CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions ❱ Alternative fuels/energy sources American deploys more than 5,000 ❱ Reuse/recycling program ❱ Reuse/recycling program reusable lightweight composite cargo ❱ Reduce energy usage ❱ Reduce energy usage containers, reducing weight and ❱ Sustainable packaging ❱ Solar panels saving more than one million gallons ❱ Energy-efficient lighting ❱ Energy-efficient lighting of fuel every year. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT CANADIAN NATIONAL Since 2004, Averitt has lowered Alliance’s refrigerated trailers, (CN) CO2 emissions by about 27 percent, moved via the nation’s rail system, reduced nitrogen oxide emissions reduce CO2 output by 67 percent cn.ca by 50 percent, and cut particulate versus moving the same goods via emissions by 52 percent. highway trucks. Canadian National’s (CN) environmental strategy focuses on emissions and energy efficiency, waste management, biodiversity, and land management. With Precision Railroading, fuel-efficient locomotives, and leading-edge technology, CN achieved a fuel and carbon efficiency improvement of 37 percent over the past 20 years. CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES APL LOGISTICS ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions ❱ Reduce energy usage apllogistics.com ❱ Optimize yard performance APL Logistics continues to create programs to capture sustainability data and make it available to customers. It engages with its community through new partnerships, NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT and develops new products to reduce customers’ greenhouse gas consumption. CN’s fleet uses 15-percent less fuel per gross ton mile overall than the CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions industry average. Over six months, APL reduced ❱ Alternative fuels/energy sources emissions for a large retailer ❱ Reuse/recycling program equivalent to driving 1.8 million ❱ Reduce energy usage fewer miles or taking 150 cars off the ❱ Energy-efficient lighting road annually. ❱ Collaborate with stakeholders to reduce and recycle plastic bags in retail businesses 46 Inbound Logistics • June 2018 AAA COOPER TRANSPORTATION CELADON TRUCKING aaacooper.com celadontrucking.com AAA Cooper installs enhanced/full aerodynamic fairing packages; converts oil to A long-time member of SmartWay, lighter-weight synthetic for better fuel economy; installs tire pressure systems Celadon keeps a current tractor fleet, designed for drive tire position to enhance mpg; and installs next-generation and relies on the latest technology skirting on van trailers with better airflow direction. The SmartWay partner to help reduce emissions and fuel has new tractor placement with automated manual transmission with specific consumption. The trucker outfits drivetrain modifications designed to increase mpg and reduce emissions. its tractors with speed limiters and equips trailers with skirting. Celadon CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES regularly maintains its tractors to run ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions at optimum efficiency. ❱ Reuse/recycling program ❱ Reduce energy usage CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES ❱ Sustainably source materials ❱ Alternative fuels/energy sources ❱ Energy-efficient lighting ❱ Reuse/recycling program ❱ Use wastewater NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT ❱ Reduce energy usage ❱ Continual reduced emissions Sustainable packaging ❱ since 2013. Solar panels ❱ Energy-efficient lighting NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Celadon earned the 2017 SmartWay BNSF Freight Carrier and Multimodal Excellence Award. bnsf.com CRANE WORLDWIDE BNSF created a Carbon Estimator LOGISTICS Tool for shippers to track the carbon footprint of their rail craneww.com CASESTACK shipments. It also implemented The 3PL’s Crane Cares initiative locomotive management systems is composed of three specific casestack.com to reduce idling, fuel consumption, branches through which it and emissions. CaseStack’s retail consolidation demonstrates commitment to the programs help conserve natural CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES environment (Green Worldwide), resources by reducing dock ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions the communities in which we live congestion, improving warehouse ❱ Reduce energy usage and work (Give Worldwide), and efficiencies, and decreasing ❱ Energy-efficient lighting the health, wellness, and safety of the number of trucks on the ❱ Solar panels employees and their families (Live highway. The resulting supply ❱ Alternative fuel/energy sources Well Worldwide). chain consumes less energy and produces lower amounts of carbon NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES emissions. CaseStack has been a ❱ Reuse/recycling program SmartWay partner for the past eight Fuel efficiency has increased ❱ Use wastewater consecutive years. 10 percent since 2005. ❱ Reduce energy usage ❱ Energy-efficient lighting CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES ❱ Reduce greenhouse gas emissions NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT ❱ Reduce energy usage Crane Worldwide has been ❱ Energy-efficient lighting recognized as a SmartWay Transport NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Partner since opening its doors in 2008. CaseStack’s consolidated truckloads reduce carbon emissions by 58 million pounds of CO2 each year. June 2018 • Inbound Logistics 47 CSX TRANSPORTATION DHL SUPPLY CHAIN csx.com dhl.com CSX Transportation has a three-pronged approach to sustainability: reduce the DHL has set four interim environmental footprint of operations, engage openly on sustainability issues, sustainability targets to achieve by and support sustainability developments. In 2016, the company improved fuel 2025. Global target: increase carbon efficiency by shutting down unused locomotive power whenever possible. The efficiency by 50 percent compared to railroad is capable of moving one ton of freight 474 miles on a single gallon of fuel. 2007. Local target: deliver 70 percent of its own first- and last-mile CURRENT GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT services with clean pickup/delivery ❱ Reduce greenhouse