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SUPPLYGREEN CHAIN PARTNERS Inbound Logistics’ annual G75 is an editors’ choice list of 75 companies that go above and beyond to ensure their global supply chains are sustainable, and that their operations are socially and environmentally friendly. These companies are dedicated to developing and implementing best practices that leave a positive footprint on the world.

40 Inbound Logistics • June 20202021 technology enables Alliance A. Duie Pyle Shippers to move refrigerated www.aduiepyle.com goods via rail—reducing CO2 output by approximately 67% or 1 billion A. Duie Pyle invests in equipment pounds compared to moving the that promotes conservation and same goods via trucks. decreases the consumption of resources in its warehouses, As an active participant in the facilities, and fleet. Forty-five SmartWay program, Alliance percent of Pyle’s trucks were built Shippers works closely with original within the past 3.5 years, which equipment manufacturers to utilize is below the industry average of CARB-compliant components 5.2 years. This minimizes exhaust and practices as part of its emissions and improves fuel AAA Cooper specifications for any new trailer/ economy. Pyle’s service centers Transportation container build. Its investment in use electric forklifts, which reduce www.aaacooper.com solar panels allows the company to carbon emissions by 24,000 AAA Cooper Transportation use the sun’s energy to continuously pounds per unit. installed enhanced/full aerodynamic charge the batteries on its fleet, lowering fuel consumption and In 2010, Pyle invested in more fairing packages, converted oil reducing emissions. than 4,000 solar panels for to lighter-weight synthetic for its Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, better fuel economy, installed tire Alliance Shippers also manages warehouse, enabling the pressure systems designed for drive the run time on units at customer 570,000-square-foot facility to run tire position to improve MPG, and pool locations to reduce carbon on 100% solar energy. Its Bronx, installed next-generation skirting on emissions and optimize asset New York, service center uses 100% van trailers for airflow direction. utilization to increase capacity. LED lighting with tube lights in shops and break rooms harnessing GREEN INITIATIVES sunlight. In 2020, Pyle opened a • Reduce greenhouse new service center in Hagerstown, gas emissions Maryland, with integral LED lighting • Reuse/recycling program systems and solar light piping. • Use wastewater • Reduce energy usage GREEN INITIATIVES • Sustainably source materials • Reduce greenhouse • Energy-efficient lighting gas emissions • Use alternative fuels or energy sources NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT AAA Cooper Transportation • Reuse/recycling program designed data centers to reduce • Use wastewater HVAC demands and overall GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce energy usage utility consumption. • Solar panels • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Energy-efficient lighting • Use alternative fuels or energy sources NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Alliance Shippers • Reuse/recycling program A. Duie Pyle installed self- www.alliance.com • Reduce energy usage inflating tires and implemented Alliance Shippers continues to paperless operations. reduce its carbon footprint by • Solar panels adding EverGreen refrigeration • Energy-efficient lighting units that are CARB compliant for the life of the unit. The company NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT equips its refrigerated trailers and A SmartWay participant provider containers with two-way cellular since 2006, Alliance Shippers tracking devices, drawing power was honored with a SmartWay from a solar-powered battery Excellence Award in 2017 and source within its refrigeration units. 2019—one of 62 companies to This technology allows units to be receive this distinction. plugged into an electric source while sitting in a yard or at a dock. Building its fleet of refrigerated equipment with the most current

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 41 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS a systematic approach to both • Reuse/recycling program Americold reduce emissions and conserve • Use wastewater www.americold.com fuel. As a result, • Reduce energy usage has earned a SmartWay score of In 2020, Americold invested more • Sustainable packaging 1.25, which represents “outstanding than $8.4 million in sustainability • Sustainably source materials environmental performance,” projects ranging from energy- according to the EPA. • Solar panels saving LED lighting to rooftop • Energy-efficient lighting rainwater harvesting systems. GREEN INITIATIVES: The company works closely with • Reduce greenhouse NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT customers to optimize their supply gas emissions In April 2021, EcoVadis gave Bolloré chains with a focus on reducing • Reuse/recycling program Logistics a Platinum rating, its transportation mileage to decrease highest level of recognition. CO2 emissions. • Reduce energy usage • Sustainable packaging Americold continually evaluates • Energy-efficient lighting technology to drive improvements in energy efficiency, water C.H. Robinson NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT usage, greenhouse gas emission www.chrobinson.com reductions, and overall stewardship Since joining the SmartWay C.H. Robinson is more than of resources. Its sustainability program, Averitt Express has halfway toward its goal of reducing efforts are led by energy teams achieved a 38% reduction in carbon emissions intensity 40% by 2025 in direct partnerships with every dioxide emissions, 88% reduction in over its 2018 baseline numbers. It operations leader in the company, nitrogen oxide emissions, and saved achieves this progress by finding engaging the entire organization to 6.2 million gallons of diesel fuel. energy efficiencies within its practice sustainability stewardship. facilities and leveraging renewable energy options. GREEN INITIATIVES Bolloré Logistics C.H. Robinson has implemented • Reduce greenhouse www.bollore-logistics.com several sustainability projects, gas emissions including Gold LEED certification • Use alternative fuels or in its largest operating facility in energy sources Chicago; single-sort recycling in • Reuse/recycling program its offices; paperless invoicing for • Use wastewater customers, with a goal of going • Reduce energy usage 100% paperless; and LED lighting in • Solar panels some facilities. • Energy-efficient lighting The company received the 2021 EcoVadis Bronze Medal NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT in recognition of sustainability Bolloré Logistics maintains a strong Americold was recognized as the achievement. An EPA SmartWay CSR program structured around 41 #1 cold storage leader for energy Transport partner since 2005, environmental, social, societal, and excellence by the Global Cold C.H. Robinson collaborated with ethics benchmarks. Key objectives Chain Alliance. MIT and SmartWay to create a are the reduction of scope 1 and new standard of measuring LTL 2 greenhouse gas emissions emissions. Moreover, the company and the reduction of its indirect launched Emissions IQ, a self-serve CO2 emissions. Averitt Express technology that measures carbon www.averittexpress.com To achieve these targets, the emissions from shipments managed company launched a global energy by C.H. Robinson across mode, efficiency program composed of location, and retailer. solutions focused on behaviors and technologies. It also implemented GREEN INITIATIVES a low carbon transport plan • Reduce greenhouse to support customers, carbon gas emissions pacts with maritime companies, • Reuse/recycling program strong CO2 reporting, circular • Reduce energy usage economy projects, and • Sustainable packaging sustainable innovations within its Averitt Express is a founding innovation center. • Energy-efficient lighting member of SmartWay. As one of 52 charter members, Averitt NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT GREEN INITIATIVES Express agreed to meet specific • Reduce greenhouse C.H. Robinson offers a greenhouse environmental and energy-saving gas emissions gas emission calculator for goals while sharing its progress • Use alternative fuels or customers and carriers, renewable annually with the EPA. Through this energy sources energy credits, and carbon offsets. program, the company established

42 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS • Use alternative fuels or NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Cargo Transporters energy sources By consolidating multiple customers www.cgor.com • Reuse/recycling program with a single destination onto • Reduce energy usage shared trucks, CJ Logistics America Cargo Transporters continues to reduces trucks on the road and • Sustainable packaging invest in more fuel-efficient trucks, miles traveled while also reducing • Sustainably source materials trailers, and major components. costs for program participants. In 2020, the company renewed its • Solar panels SmartWay certification, invested • Energy-efficient lighting in shorepower connections for trucks, installed solar-powered NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Crowley trash/recycling bins, installed As an inaugural participant in the www.crowley.com new HVAC thermostats with United Eco-Skies Alliance, CEVA Crowley enhances sustainability scheduling capabilities, and moved Logistics is taking a lead in the air by using more biofuel to power its data center to a more energy- cargo industry to reduce logistics- vessels. It also uses cleaner- efficient facility. related environmental impacts by emission tugboat and closed-loop increasing demand for sustainable ballast water systems. Crowley GREEN INITIATIVES aviation fuel. Engineering Services designed the • Use alternative fuels or first fully electric U.S. tugboat with energy sources autonomous technology, providing • Reuse/recycling program a sustainable solution for ship assist • Reduce energy usage CJ Logistics America and harbor services at ports. www.cjlogisticsamerica.com • Energy-efficient lighting Crowley’s terminals have CJ Logistics America continues implemented new operating NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT to identify sustainability projects systems that reduce idling emission Cargo Transporters deployed to implement in partnership with time by 50%, leading the EPA to 14 solar-powered compacting its customers. The company honor Crowley Trucking as a 2020 trash/recycling bins across its tracks performance on six key SmartWay High Performer. LNG- terminal parking. metrics—electricity, natural powered container ships have gas, propane, water, recycled reduced greenhouse gases by more tonnage, and waste tonnage. It than 32% per container. also monitors the performance of CEVA Logistics each location, identifies the most The company put in service 850 www.cevalogistics.com promising network-wide projects, new refrigerated units with more and sets goals to reduce its energy-efficient systems and a carbon footprint. new inspection dock with more energy-efficient power supplies and CJ Logistics’ transportation-focused continuous real-time monitoring. sustainability efforts include consolidated shipping for which it GREEN INITIATIVES tracks carbon savings month over • Reduce greenhouse month, SmartWay certification, and gas emissions a strict no-idle policy. The company • Use alternative fuels or CEVA Logistics incorporates regularly engages in large-scale energy sources environmental considerations in its network modeling projects for • Reuse/recycling program operations, from warehousing to many customers. While the goal of • Reduce energy usage transportation to procurement. its network redesign is generally • Sustainable packaging CEVA’s 2021 environmental efficiency and cost reduction, better • Energy-efficient lighting initiatives in North America include placed warehouses and optimized tree planting programs in the transportation routes also result in United States, Mexico, and Canada; a more sustainable network with a NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT park trash clean-up programs; reduced carbon footprint. Crowley practices recycling in switching materials handling all facilities and reduces waste equipment to electric; numerous GREEN INITIATIVES material usage. recycling programs; switching • Reduce greenhouse to LED lights to lower electricity gas emissions usage; actively procuring CNG • Use alternative fuels or tractors; piloting electric mid-duty energy sources trucks in California; and instituting a • Reuse/recycling program zero-plastic water bottle program in • Use wastewater its Canada facilities. • Reduce energy usage • Sustainable packaging GREEN INITIATIVES • Sustainably source materials • Reduce greenhouse • Solar panels gas emissions • Energy-efficient lighting

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 43 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS technologies. The software NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT consolidates small shipments into a DHL Supply Chain is on track for all truckload with stop-offs to reduce DHL owned or leased facilities to costs and fuel, enabling shippers to operate at net zero carbon by 2025. choose environmentally conscious routings, mode selections, and carriers with the shortest transit times to reduce fuel consumption and lower CO2 emissions.

GREEN INITIATIVES • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce energy usage • Energy-efficient lighting CSX www.csx.com NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT CSX practices transparency and At least 40% of CT Logistics’ adopts new technologies to achieve 6-acre corporate campus will its goal of reducing scope 1 and 2 remain undeveloped and wooded. greenhouse gas emissions intensity Employees recycle all cardboard by 37% between 2014 and 2030. and paper, copier and printer toner This goal, the most ambitious in the and ink cartridges. DHX-Dependable transportation sector at the time it Hawaiian Express was approved by the Science Based www.dhx.com Targets initiative, has led freight rail In 2021, DHX reached a and other transportation companies DHL Supply Chain sustainability milestone with its to adopt strategic and significant www..com 10th annual GreenWay Miles Carbon goals of their own. CSX is investing In March 2021, Deutsche Post DHL Audit. Its decade-long commitment in near-term efficiency efforts Group unveiled a sustainability to tracking emissions has allowed and long-term transformational roadmap to further support its the company to document a 78% technologies to drive the company ongoing efforts to eliminate 50% reduction in same-facility emissions toward achievement. of emissions by 2025 as part of its from its original audit in 2011. goal to reduce all logistics-related In 2019, DHX began carbon-neutral emissions to zero by 2050. The GREEN INITIATIVES operations in its warehouses, • Reduce greenhouse Group committed to investing more investing in VCS Standard carbon gas emissions than $8 billion in clean operations— offsets. DHX also offers carbon- • Use alternative fuels or including electric vehicles and neutral shipping. All of its larger energy sources green warehousing technologies. facilities are solar-powered, and • Reuse/recycling program To meet its target of reducing DHX continues to invest in truck • Use wastewater greenhouse gas emissions to net technology to reduce emissions. • Reduce energy usage zero by 2050, the company offers • Sustainable packaging numerous innovative solutions GREEN INITIATIVES • Sustainably source materials to make supply chains more • Reduce greenhouse • Solar panels sustainable and help customers gas emissions achieve their environmental goals. • Energy-efficient lighting • Use alternative fuels or energy sources NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT GREEN INITIATIVES • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce greenhouse • Reduce energy usage In 2021, CSX set new environmental gas emissions goals after accomplishing all its • Sustainable packaging • Use alternative fuels or 2020 environmental goals. energy sources • Sustainably source materials • Reuse/recycling program • Solar panels • Reduce energy usage • Energy-efficient lighting • Sustainable packaging CT Logistics NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT www.ctlogistics.com • Sustainably source materials DHX installed electric vehicle CT Logistics invested in software • Solar panels charging stations for employees. developments in 2020, targeting • Energy-efficient lighting the ability to provide shippers the • Circular and reverse logistics tools to make greener choices in their supply chain every day. CT’s FreitRater Lion software helps shippers drive energy efficiency with supply chain routing analysis

44 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS resistance design to maximize fuel DSV efficiency. Tire inflation systems www.dsv.com extend tire life and increase fuel efficiency. Computerized truck Through the Science Based transmissions also enhance Targets initiative, DSV has fuel economy. committed to rigorous goals for global greenhouse gas emissions Its fleet features battery-operated reductions. Its initiatives include auxiliary power units, eco mud implementing a global multisite flaps that reduce fuel costs and certificate for ISO 9001 (Quality), improve performance, fuel economy ISO 45001 (Health & Safety), and packages, and pup trailers with ISO 14001 (Environment). solar panels to charge batteries and conserve fuel. The company’s long- m2, its largest hub in Northern Echo Global Logistics combination vehicles reduce miles, Europe, has recycling programs for www.echo.com save fuel, and reduce greenhouse paper, cardboard, and plastic; in Echo Global Logistics works with gases. Its trailer tails improve fuel 2021, DSV is launching a recycling its shipper and carrier partners efficiency by 5.5% by streamlining project to increase its global efforts. to adopt procedures that reduce airflow and reducing rear drag. DSV Solutions, its warehousing and waste through recycling practices, contract logistics division, initiated minimize impact by reducing GREEN INITIATIVES a sustainability program. Led by pollutants, increase the use of • Reduce greenhouse local ambassadors, the program environmentally acceptable gas emissions has two tracks: 1) interacting materials, and actively promote • Reduce energy usage with customers and suppliers to environmental awareness. Echo • Solar panels implement green solutions, and 2) is certified in the ISO standard • Energy-efficient lighting optimizing technical solutions in 14001: 2015. This means Echo’s its own offices and warehouses, environmental management system NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT including automatic control of meets the requirements of ISO. Erb’s fleet includes high-torque heating, cooling, and ventilation. Internally, Echo promotes company- engine packages that offer cleaner The program also introduces wide recycling efforts, encourages exhaust emissions. more sustainable equipment such employees to commute using public as energy-efficient forklifts and transportation, and provides staff alternative packaging solutions with wellness options that benefit in warehouses. them and the environment. Estes www.estes-express.com GREEN INITIATIVES Estes was one of the first trucking • Reduce greenhouse companies to join the EPA gas emissions SmartWay Transport Partnership. • Reuse/recycling program The company invests in solar • Reduce energy usage energy, installing solar-powered • Energy-efficient lighting systems in four of its terminals. Estes also uses technology to NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT plan routes to minimize fuel consumption, reduce carbon Since 2010, Echo has partnered with dioxide emissions, and ensure it the EPA’s SmartWay program to is carrying freight as efficiently measure, benchmark, and improve as possible. Estes replaces older, its environmental footprint. Echo GREEN INITIATIVES less-efficient tractors with EPA- shares its freight activity with • Reduce greenhouse certified models to reduce its the EPA, which tracks carbon gas emissions carbon footprint. • Use alternative fuels or dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and energy sources particulate matter emissions. GREEN INITIATIVES • Reuse/recycling program Echo’s emissions scores rank above average and continue to improve. • Reduce greenhouse • Reduce energy usage gas emissions • Sustainable packaging • Use alternative fuels or • Sustainably source materials energy sources • Solar panels Erb Group of Companies • Reuse/recycling program • Energy-efficient lighting www.erbgroup.com • Reduce energy usage A SmartWay partner, the Erb • Solar panels NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Group of Companies’ aerodynamic • Energy-efficient lighting DSV received the Chemours tractors improve fuel economy and Supplier Award in Sustainability have fuel-efficient tires that extend NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT in 2020. mileage and the lifetime of the Estes provides customers with tire. Trailer tires have a low-rolling paperless e-commerce solutions.

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 45 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse Evergreen Line gas emissions www.evergreen-shipping.us • Reduce energy usage Focused on building a green • Sustainable packaging container fleet, Evergreen Line deploys load stability calculation • Sustainably source materials and weather navigation information systems to optimize sailing speed NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT and monitor fuel consumption. The company has been selected as Evergreen monitors sailing a SmartWay Transport Partner for schedules and adjusts them flexibly. the past four years, and has won various sustainability awards. The ocean line continues to install global parcel pickup and delivery and use scrubbers in the fleet to vehicle purchases will be electric, reduce sulfide. The shipping line rising to 100% of all purchases by improves the operational efficiency 2030. The company is also building GEODIS of terminals, adopts shore power, on its Fuel Sense initiatives to www.geodis.com and strictly manages ballast continue working to reduce aircraft One-third of GEODIS sites have water discharges. fuel consumption. triple QSE certification, and its Evergreen complies with the Hong FedEx continues to invest in sites are also ISO 14001 certified. Kong International Convention alternative fuels, efficient facilities, GEODIS is a SmartWay partner. Its for the Safe and Environmentally renewable energy, and other energy other global partnerships include Sound Recycling of Ships and EU management programs. EcoTransit, Clean Cargo, and Ship Recycling Regulation. The line GLEC. Facility teammates lead an disposes of ship waste according to GREEN INITIATIVES Americas Green Team Program. the waste management plan. • Reduce greenhouse The company also offers Green gas emissions Site Certification, an education • Use alternative fuels or tool to teach facilities how to energy sources be sustainable. • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce energy usage GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Sustainable packaging • Reuse/recycling program • Sustainably source materials • Reduce energy usage GREEN INITIATIVES • Solar panels • Energy-efficient lighting • Reduce greenhouse • Energy-efficient lighting gas emissions NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS • Reuse/recycling program NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT According to the EcoVadis Global • Reduce energy usage Since 2012, the FedEx Fuel Sense Benchmark report, GEODIS ranks • Energy-efficient lighting and Aircraft Modernization in the top 1% of suppliers assessed programs have saved a combined in its category and has maintained NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT 1.43 billion gallons of jet fuel and this distinction since 2015. It’s in the avoided more than 13.5 million With an established corporate CSR top 1% of all suppliers assessed in metric tons of CO2 emissions. policy, Evergreen has aligned its all categories and scored a 70/100, core operating strategy with the UN which corresponds to Advanced Sustainable Development Goals. on the scoring scale and Gold in FreightCenter recognition level. In 2019, GEODIS www.freightcenter.com obtained a B Level score from CDP after an evaluation of its climate FreightCenter helps shippers green FedEx change strategy and actions. www..com their supply chains by making To achieve its goal of carbon- sure SmartWay-certified trucking neutral global operations by 2040, companies provide transportation FedEx invested more than $2 and carriers use optimized lanes Georgia Ports Authority billion in three key areas—vehicle and routes, finding the best drivers www.gpa.com by location. electrification, sustainable energy, Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) and carbon sequestration. FreightCenter’s green initiatives created nine acres of man-made FedEx is converting its entire parcel include reporting total mileage wetlands to treat 100 million gallons pickup and delivery fleet to zero- and freight tonnage, partnering of stormwater annually. It has a emission electric vehicles by 2040. with SmartWay-certified trucking single-stream recycling program, This will be accomplished through companies, and optimizing lanes and all its asphalt resurfacing phased programs to replace and routes to be eco-friendly. One projects generate millings that existing vehicles. For example, of the company’s main goals is to are reused throughout Garden by 2025, 50% of FedEx Express reduce carbon emissions. City Terminal.

46 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS own operations and through the emissions. The transportation and solutions it offers to clients. logistics company continues to The third-party logistics provider’s merge its fleet with technology, CORE Green Team is a program initiating an Electric Tractor pilot in dedicated to reducing the April 2021. environmental impact of its day- to-day business as well as working GREEN INITIATIVES outside the community to protect • Reduce greenhouse the environment. Initiatives include gas emissions recycling programs, sustainable • Use alternative fuels or GPA converted its container materials procurement, paperless energy sources handling equipment and trucks processes, electronic invoicing, • Reuse/recycling program to ultra-low sulfur diesel, cutting energy-efficient offices with motion • Reduce energy usage emissions by 10%. Its electric ship- sensors to conserve resources, and • Solar panels to-shore cranes have integrated community cleanup events. • Energy-efficient lighting generators to capture power while lowering boxes, producing enough GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT energy to power themselves for 18 • Reduce greenhouse Hub Group has made carbon minutes per operating hour. gas emissions dioxide reporting a core focus GPA uses electric refrigerated • Use alternative fuels or in 2021. container racks, with each avoiding energy sources the use of 54,000 gallons of • Reuse/recycling program diesel annually. Its new lighting • Reduce energy usage controls and fixtures cut energy • Sustainably source materials Hyster Company consumption by up to 60%. • Energy-efficient lighting www.hyster.com The port reduces truck idling time Hyster mitigates environmental through automated gates, extended NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT impact in intensive industries and hours, and the Port of Savannah’s GlobalTranz is a long-time meets strict emission standards by Cross Terminal Road. GPA participant in the SmartWay offering alternative power options retrofitted 11 locomotives at the Port Transport Partnership. for heavy-duty lift truck applications of Savannah with automatic engine that have historically depended on stop-start devices that cut almost internal combustion engines. 16 tons of emissions each year. During the past two years, Hub Group Hyster introduced multiple GREEN INITIATIVES www.hubgroup.com counterbalanced lift trucks • Reduce greenhouse engineered around factory gas emissions integrated lithium-ion power. The • Use alternative fuels or J60XNL pneumatic tire truck energy sources is engineered around a fully • Reuse/recycling program integrated lithium-ion battery that • Reduce energy usage produces zero emissions and zero • Energy-efficient lighting off-gassing during charging. A new • Stormwater management cushion tire version, the E60XNL, expands integrated lithium-ion NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT power to even more applications. GPA uses all-electric, rubber- Hub Group provides sustainability- tired gantry (eRTG) cranes at the GREEN INITIATIVES focused services, including Appalachian Regional Port. The • Reduce greenhouse intermodal, LTL consolidation, and eRTGs reduce fuel consumption gas emissions network optimization, to eliminate by more than 95% per crane and • Use alternative fuels or network emissions. This includes energy sources virtually eliminate emissions of analyzing customers’ supply carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, and • Reuse/recycling program chains to identify opportunities particulate matter compared to • Reduce energy usage to implement a program while diesel-powered RTGs. • Energy-efficient lighting playing an active, long-term role in their sustainability goals. In NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS 2020, its intermodal service helped GlobalTranz customers avoid more than 1.5 Hyster is lithium-ion practical for million metric tons of CO2. load capacities ranging from 5,000 www.globaltranz.com to 36,000 pounds, with several GlobalTranz works to reduce its From an MPG-friendly, day cab- high-capacity forklifts offering carbon footprint while helping focused company tractor fleet to lithium-ion power that delivers its clients and carrier partners refrigerated containers with solar- performance comparable to diesel achieve their sustainability goals. powered IoT devices, Hub Group’s power without the emissions. It prioritizes green practices in its equipment also works to reduce

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 47 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS through returns management and iGPS Logistics liquidation programs. www.igps.com Inmar’s Energy From Waste The iGPS pallet is 100% recyclable program produced 10.6 million and 35% lighter than wood kilowatt hours of energy in 2018 alternatives. For every 100,000 and 2019. Using energy from pallets shipped, 20,000 pounds waste saved 19,250 barrels of oil in of greenhouse gases are reduced. 2018 and 2019. Its return facilities An independent life cycle analysis recycle 28 million pounds of clients’ shows that compared to multi- cardboard boxes each year. use and single-use wood pallets, the iGPS pallet has at least 91% GREEN INITIATIVES less of an impact on ozone layer • Reduce greenhouse depletion; 75% less of an impact gas emissions NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS on eutrophication (i.e., excessive • Reuse/recycling program J.B. Hunt has received the EPA algae growth in waterways due • Reduce energy usage SmartWay Excellence Award for 11 to runoff); 25% less of an impact • Sustainable packaging consecutive years. The company on abiotic depletion (i.e., fossil • Energy-efficient lighting was also named a 2020 SmartWay fuel consumption); 65% less of an High Performer. impact on global warming; 60% NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS less of an impact on photochemical Inmar’s liquidation services oxidation; and 60% less of an reduce sending returned products impact on acidification. Kamps to landfills and the company’s www.kampspallets.com headquarters building is LEED GREEN INITIATIVES Platinum Certified. Kamps, one of the nation’s largest • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions pallet recyclers, overhauled its • Reuse/recycling program Green Scorecard program with • Reduce energy usage added educational materials for customers across various • Sustainable packaging J.B. Hunt industries nationwide to encourage • Sustainably source materials Transport Services pallet recycling beyond its www.jbhunt.com own organization. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Through its conversion efforts, iGPS repurposed more than 80 J.B. Hunt reduced CO2e emissions The company equipped its entire tons of post-consumer plastic into in 2020 (versus an all-truck fleet with state-of-the-art GPS pallets, keeping it out of landfills alternative) by approximately 50% fleet management software that and waterways. or about 3.4 million metric tons. increases productivity and lowers Using J.B. Hunt 360, it filled more fuel consumption, leading to than four million empty miles last lower greenhouse gas emissions. year by successfully matching Kamps’ 2021 initiatives include Inmar Intelligence empty segments with unutilized setting a new milestone in pallets www.inmar.com trucks. This initiative helped reduce recycled, lowering the amount of its greenhouse gas emissions by paper consumed in daily business approximately 6,112 metric tons of operations, and transitioning to CO2e in 2020. digital platforms.

In 2020, J.B. Hunt completed GREEN INITIATIVES its first delivery using an all- • Reduce greenhouse electric Class 8 truck. Additional gas emissions sustainability initiatives include • Reuse/recycling program reducing engine idle time, • Reduce energy usage governing top-speed limits, • Sustainable packaging Inmar Intelligence, a provider engineering fleet routes that of reverse logistics and supply maximize efficiency, and using • Sustainably source materials chain solutions, reduces costs biodiesel fuels. and eliminates waste of returned NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS items from consumer goods GREEN INITIATIVES In 2020, Kamps recycled (repaired manufacturers and retailers. • Reduce greenhouse or dismantled components for Inmar’s solutions enable a landfill gas emissions reuse) more than 70 million pallets, diversion rate of 98% by placing • Use alternative fuels or which saved 3.59 million trees, goods back into commerce, energy sources 1.92 million metric tons of CO2 providing donations, and through • Reuse/recycling program emissions, and 1.4 million tons of waste-into-energy initiatives. • Reduce energy usage landfill waste. It keeps 200 million pounds of • Solar panels material from landfills each year • Energy-efficient lighting

48 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT the booking process and will soon Kane Logistics Kenco created a 3-year roadmap be able to neutralize them via an www.kanelogistics.com for transitioning to low-emissions add-on service. solutions such as highly automated, Kane Logistics works to reduce partially “dark” or “lights off” carbon emissions, pollution, and warehouses. Virtually independent congestion with smarter trucks of human labor, these facilities Lynden and delivery methods. The third- reduce requirements for energy www.lynden.com party logistics provider has been a consumption from utilities such Despite operating in Alaska’s SmartWay member since 2006 and as lighting, air conditioning, water extreme conditions, Lynden’s utilizes modern, diesel-powered usage, and vehicle exhaust. fleets consistently score among trucks and compressed natural the most efficient in the nation gas equipment. in terms of CO2 per ton mile as measured by the SmartWay GREEN INITIATIVES Lufthansa Cargo Transport Partnership. • Reduce greenhouse www.lufthansa-cargo.com/green gas emissions Lynden designs its procedures and • Use alternative fuels or equipment to prevent accidental energy sources spills and manage stormwater • Reuse/recycling program pollution. The company’s trucks and planes are also designed with • Reduce energy usage aerodynamic features to reduce • Sustainable packaging drag, and more than 80% of its fleet • Sustainably source materials is less than five years old. • Energy-efficient lighting Lynden’s bulk tanker company In the past 25 years, Lufthansa consistently scores in the top 1% of NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Cargo increased fuel efficiency by tanker carriers in the nation for low 52% with fleet rollovers from the Since 2012, Kane has recycled carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, and DC8 to the B777. With LH Group, 65.7 tons of paper, 85,239 tons of particulate matter emissions per ton the corporate goal is to halve the plastic/stretch wrap, 738,060 tons mile. Lynden locations have been CO2 footprint by 2030 (basis of cardboard, 101.2 tons of cans/ redesigned for energy efficiency, 2019). Lufthansa demonstrates bottles, 14.3 tons of steel, 191.8 tons including replacing propane forklifts sustainability by innovation in of wood, and 87.7 tons of additional with electric models. commingled materials. aircraft technology (all B777 will have sharkskin by 2022), GREEN INITIATIVES fuel efficiency (more realistic • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions contingency fuel planning), in-flight operation (efficient flight profile • Use alternative fuels or Kenco Logistics energy sources www.kencogroup.com concept), and handling (since • Reuse/recycling program Kenco’s offerings cover a range 2020 only standard lightweight of advanced technologies that containers are in use). • Reduce energy usage • Sustainable packaging supplement its sustainability Lufthansa Cargo has its own endeavors. For example, Kenco’s environmental strategy and a • Sustainably source materials proprietary carbon footprint worldwide ISO 14001-certified • Energy-efficient lighting, calculator, developed through the environmental management system, company’s DaVinci AI software, taking into account upstream and NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS allows it to quantifiably predict downstream processes, including Lynden is the first Alaska-based emission outputs and facilitate sustainable procurement. transportation company to be reductions in advance. Similarly, the recognized by SmartWay (2008) company is able to reduce waste GREEN INITIATIVES and the first trucking company and streamline processes in day-to- • Reduce greenhouse to earn the Green Star Award for day operations by training drivers gas emissions Alaskan businesses. on progressive shifting techniques. • Use alternative fuels or energy sources GREEN INITIATIVES • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce greenhouse • Use wastewater gas emissions • Reduce energy usage • Use alternative fuels or energy sources • Sustainable packaging • Reuse/recycling program • Sustainably source materials • Reduce energy usage • Energy-efficient lighting • Sustainable packaging NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS • Solar panels Lufthansa Cargo customers can • Energy-efficient lighting now determine the CO2 emissions of their shipment’s transport during

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 49 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS the company to its Multimodal Maersk High Performance list for many www.maersk.com years in recognition of its emissions reduction. Maersk is committed to safe, responsible, and transparent business practices in alignment with the principles of the UN Matson Logistics Global Compact and Sustainable www.matsonlogistics.com Development Goals. Maersk Matson Logistics’ environmental prioritizes decarbonization, and line with ISO 14064-1, Mainfreight strategy focuses on reducing has intensified efforts to achieve now reports its emissions with the greenhouse gas emissions to net zero emissions by 2050 and ultimate intent of improving carbon mitigate climate change, improving support customers in decarbonizing emissions performance. air quality, recycling retired ships their supply chains. responsibly, and protecting ocean In 2020 its vessel energy efficiency GREEN INITIATIVES health and biodiversity. The freight continued to improve, with a 46% • Use alternative fuels or transportation provider has been reduction in CO2 emissions per energy sources a member of the EPA SmartWay container moved since 2008. • Reuse/recycling program Partnership since 2008. Maersk’s first carbon-neutral vessel • Use wastewater Additionally, Matson Logistics has will be in operation in 2023, and • Reduce energy usage invested in green building features all future vessels will be capable of • Solar panels in its warehouses. Its warehouse in operating on carbon-neutral fuel. • Energy-efficient lighting Pooler, Georgia, is LEED certified. Other facilities use “passive night GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT air” cooling systems and will • Reduce greenhouse upgrade from fluorescent lighting gas emissions Mainfreight’s sales team in to more efficient LED lighting. • Use alternative fuels or Australasia uses electric and energy sources hybrid vehicles. GREEN INITIATIVES • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce greenhouse • Reduce energy usage gas emissions • Sustainably source materials Marten Transport • Use alternative fuels or • Solar panels www.marten.com energy sources • Energy-efficient lighting Marten Transport consistently • Reuse/recycling program invests in technology and people to • Use wastewater NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT reduce its footprint. The time- and • Reduce energy usage Maersk reduces customers’ temperature-sensitive transport • Sustainably source materials services provider added green transportation carbon footprints • Energy-efficient lighting through vessel emissions reductions initiatives that not only reduce waste and improve efficiency, and carbon-neutral ocean NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS shipping services. but also lower MPG. Marten Matson twice received the accomplished this by managing U.S. Coast Guard’s William M. the following areas: loading warm, Benkert Award for Environmental reefer run time, APU idle time, and Excellence. It is also a recipient network restructuring. Marten has of the North American Marine invested in solar panels for trucks Environment Protection and all 14 terminals, and purchased Association’s 2020 Environmental lithium power bank batteries for its Innovation Leadership Award. California terminal.

GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse NFI Mainfreight gas emissions www.nfiindustries.com www.mainfreight.com • Use alternative fuels or energy sources Partnering with companies such as Mainfreight’s 100-year vision is a DTNA, Volvo, and Hyliion to operate • Reuse/recycling program guiding principle in its commitment electric trucks, NFI continues to to sustainability. Examples of • Use wastewater invest in new green technologies. sustainability initiatives include • Reduce energy usage The third-party logistics provider is use of rainwater to wash its • Solar panels testing battery-electric yard units trucks, GPS route planning to • Energy-efficient lighting near zero bring efficiencies to pickups and trucks using renewable compressed deliveries, and use of electric NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS natural gas, and electric range forklifts and solar installations in SmartWay presented Marten with extenders, and is exploring Class Mainfreight-owned branches. In its Excellence Award and added 8 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. NFI

50 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS also implemented natural gas fleets older trucks. It adopted the 2020 and has integrated new technology Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy, to improve aerodynamics and fuel setting a goal of zero emissions efficiency, and installed electric from seaport activities by 2050. charging infrastructure at its NWSA is installing shore power at Southern California campus. its terminals and building a seaport Green equipment, including lithium electrification roadmap to advance battery-powered forklifts, battery- this vision. powered automated units, and robotic stretch wrapping, is in place GREEN INITIATIVES across NFI’s distribution centers. NTG implemented the following • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions NFI owns more than six megawatts sustainable initiatives, among of solar and is a member of the others: route optimization • Use alternative fuels or energy sources ACT Expo High Volume Fleet technology to limit fuel emissions, Planning Committee. RhinoLink drop trailer program, • Reuse/recycling program utilization of SmartWay carriers, • Use wastewater maximizing load efficiency, and • Reduce energy usage installing automation to minimize • Energy-efficient lighting manual work. • Habitat restoration • Stormwater management GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse • Remediation gas emissions • Energy-efficient lighting NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS NWSA reduced diesel particulate NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS matter emissions by more than 90% NTG developed a sustainability since 2005 and its all-new cargo task force in 2020 and is a certified handling equipment is the cleanest diesel available. GREEN INITIATIVES SmartWay Partner. • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Use alternative fuels or Nussbaum energy sources Northwest Seaport www.nussbaum.com • Reuse/recycling program Alliance Nussbaum works directly with • Reduce energy usage www.nwseaportalliance.com OEM and third-party equipment • Sustainable packaging The Northwest Seaport Alliance manufacturers to develop • Solar panels (NWSA) creates innovative and employ the latest fuel solutions to improve air and • Energy-efficient lighting efficiency technologies. water quality, uniting supply Nussbaum also focuses on fuel chain partners, stakeholders, and NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS performance; its drivers show a communities across the Puget NFI is a four-time EPA SmartWay fleet average of 9.2 MPG and the Sound to reduce environmental Excellence Award winner and a company has its sights set on 10 impacts. With its Clean Truck SmartWay High Performer. MPG. Many Nussbaum drivers reach Program, all drayage trucks serving 12 to 13 MPG in any given week. NWSA terminals are 2007 or newer, meaning 90% cleaner than Additionally, the company uses solar panels to minimize idle Nolan Transportation time in the truck. And, as electric Group and alternative fuel options www.ntgfreight.com become viable for over-the-road Nolan Transportation Group’s transportation, Nussbaum will (NTG) sustainability task force test the products and work with meets monthly to discuss current manufacturers to develop the and future state initiatives to best solutions. drive a more sustainable supply chain. This task force focuses on GREEN INITIATIVES developing operational initiatives, • Reuse/recycling program technology initiatives, community • Solar panels affairs, and office initiatives. NTG • Energy-efficient lighting optimizes routes and identifies the most efficient lanes to limit driving NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT time and fuel usage, reducing Nussbaum provides direct training carbon emissions while preserving and support to maximize the use of

shipment quality. ALLIANCE SEAPORT THE NORTHWEST PHOTO: necessary fossil fuels.

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 51 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS to invest $605 million in capital expenditures to improve efficiency, Odyssey Logistics & including $290 million for a tractor/ Technology trailer replacement program. The www.odysseylogistics.com company’s current truck fleet is Odyssey Logistics & Technology 100% low rolling resistance, which (OL&T) has been offering its increases fuel efficiency and customers sustainable solutions reduces emissions. OD adopted a for more than a decade. As a lead “no-idle” policy, which helps reduce logistics provider with intermodal unnecessary fuel use and emissions. capabilities, OL&T offers customers All of OD’s new service centers environment-friendly alternatives. are equipped with LED lighting In an effort to increase payload, and motion detectors to minimize OL&T measures the number of electricity usage. The company low-weight truckload shipments follows a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions. Regional (less than 45,000 pounds). That maintenance schedule with National continuous improvement managers activity decreases the number Institute for Automotive Service across the country execute projects of trucks required to deliver Excellence-certified technicians, to reduce waste, cut cycle time, products, thereby reducing fuel who keep tractors operating at and improve quality. And 99% use and emissions. OL&T regularly peak efficiency. In addition, OD of the water ORBIS uses in its aggregates shipments on behalf leverages comprehensive route/ manufacturing process is reused. of clients to reduce costs, increase load planning tools to minimize payload, and decrease fuel use miles traveled. GREEN INITIATIVES and emissions. • Reduce greenhouse GREEN INITIATIVES gas emissions GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions • Reduce energy usage gas emissions • Use alternative fuels or • Sustainable packaging energy sources • Use alternative fuels or • Sustainably source materials energy sources • Reuse/recycling program • Energy-efficient lighting • Reduce energy usage • Reduce energy usage • Energy-efficient lighting • Solar panels NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS • Energy-efficient lighting At the end of a long service life in NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS the supply chain, ORBIS packaging Odyssey has invested heavily NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT can be recovered, recycled, and in emerging sustainability Old Dominion Freight Line has reprocessed into new packaging. technologies and actively earned the EPA SmartWay Additionally, ORBIS offers a new participates in global sustainability Excellence Award for six recycled material in its product. initiatives. The company plans consecutive years. Its Ocean in Mind program to increase these investments repurposes plastic waste at risk of as it makes these technologies, entering the oceans into reusable processes, and information available packaging products. to customers and carrier partners. ORBIS Corporation www.orbiscorporation.com ORBIS manufactures reusable pallets, totes, containers, and Penske Old Dominion dunnage designed to replace single- www.gopenske.com Freight Line use packaging in the supply chain www.odfl.com and designs 100% of its products OD is exploring electric vehicles and with sustainability in mind. Using has purchased a Volvo electric truck life-cycle assessments to compare for testing. In 2021, the carrier plans reusable and single-use packaging, ORBIS helps customers reduce their overall environmental impact. ORBIS also offers reusable packaging management services to assist customers. This includes ensuring packaging is cleaned, handled, transported, tracked, and returned properly, extending Penske helps customers enhance packaging life and preventing loss. their sustainability by incorporating In its own operation, ORBIS tracks the latest alternative fuel and monitors its water and energy technologies vehicles into its fleet. usage, as well as solid waste and The company is deploying battery

52 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS electric vehicles (BEVs) in southern GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce energy usage California with customers that have • Reduce greenhouse • Sustainable packaging the appropriate use case for the gas emissions • Energy-efficient lighting vehicles. The BEVs are supported • Use alternative fuels or energy sources by a network of heavy-duty electric NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS • Reuse/recycling program vehicle charging stations at six Pilot’s Compass Dispatcher creates Penske Truck Leasing facilities in • Reduce energy usage time- and fuel-efficient routes Southern California, the first DC • Sustainable packaging while the tracking system alerts fast-charging stations in the United • Sustainably source materials customers of delivery status, so fuel States designed specifically for • Energy-efficient lighting isn’t wasted rerouting the truck. heavy-duty commercial vehicles. These locations form a charging NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS network running in the roughly 110- Performance Team built and 120 mile corridor from San Diego in maintains a “Clean Truck” fleet. It PITT OHIO the south up through Temecula and www.pittohio.com operates clean trucks in the Port into the Inland Empire Area east of of Long Beach and Los Angeles, Renewable energy is a key part of Los Angeles. and uses more than 65 clean diesel PITT OHIO’s sustainability strategy. tractors and clean equipment in its Solar and wind energy powers GREEN INITIATIVES dedicated retail fleet operations. three of the company’s facilities; • Reduce greenhouse renewable energy makes up 7% of gas emissions PITT OHIO’s electricity. • Use alternative fuels or energy sources In 2021, it is testing two medium- Pilot Freight Services duty electric vehicles with charges. • Reuse/recycling program www.pilotdelivers.com Even with this electricity usage • Reduce energy usage at its new Cleveland facility, the • Solar panels facility will be net zero as the result • Energy-efficient lighting of installing more than 1,500 solar panels and eight 60-foot Windstax NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS wind turbines. In 2021, PITT OHIO Penske Logistics’ dedicated is continuing to upgrade lighting to fleet currently ranks in the top reduce electricity usage across a 20% of the company’s carrier number of facilities. group for CO2 grams/ton-mile emissions, and the top 40% for GREEN INITIATIVES nitrogen oxide and particulate • Reduce greenhouse matter emissions. More than 75% SmartWay certified, Pilot commits gas emissions of the freight Penske manages is to increasing partnerships with • Use alternative fuels or transported using a SmartWay program carriers by 10% annually energy sources partner, ensuring customers that and in 2021 moved 70% of its • Reuse/recycling program they are partnering with companies tonnage through SmartWay. • Reduce energy usage committed to efficiency and In 2020, Pilot enrolled with • Solar panels continuous improvement. Sustainable Travel International • Energy-efficient lighting to offset the emissions it produces, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigate climate Performance Team, A change impacts. Maersk Company The company reduces, reuses, and www.performanceteam.net recycles material using cardboard A SmartWay partner and member balers and enforces a strict no- of the Coalition for Responsible idle policy for company vehicles, Transportation, Performance Team vendors, and partners. Pilot has continues to push for greater fleet replaced most of its fossil fuel fuel efficiency and lower emission warehouse equipment with electric trucks, and support the adoption of forklifts. Its headquarters and alternate fuel sources. stations feature occupancy and LED To reduce its carbon footprint, the lighting, computer-controlled HVAC, company makes maximum use and water bottle refill stations. of recycled materials and utilizes energy-efficient technology. GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Performance Team requires • Reduce greenhouse In 2020, PITT OHIO improved waste reduction from its business gas emissions average truck miles per gallon by partners and promotes the use of • Use alternative fuels or 1.5%, on top of an improvement of environmentally friendly products. energy sources 1.1% in 2019. • Reuse/recycling program

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 53 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse Port of Long Beach gas emissions www.polb.com • Use alternative fuels or The Clean Air Action Plan, a energy sources collaboration between the ports • Reuse/recycling program of Long Beach and Los Angeles, • Reduce energy usage establishes a comprehensive strategy for reducing port-related • Solar panels air pollution, while allowing port • Energy-efficient lighting development, job creation, and economic activity to continue. The plan ushered in anti-air pollution strategies including the ports’ Clean Trucks Programs, vessel pollution reduction programs, and advanced new technology such as the world’s first hybrid tugboat. Ships at the Port of Long Beach Port Authority of New can plug into landside electricity York and New Jersey while at berth, drastically NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT www.panynj.gov reducing emissions. The port The Port of Los Angeles initiated a The Port of New York & New Jersey also offers dockage incentives to pilot Environmental Management has a longstanding commitment shipping lines that participate in System in 2003 and obtained to environmental sustainability environmental initiatives. ISO 14001 certification in 2007. and reducing the emission of The port was the first major greenhouse gases in the New York GREEN INITIATIVES West Coast port to obtain third- and New Jersey region. • Reduce greenhouse party, independent certification gas emissions under ISO. The program was since As a landlord port, the Port of New • Use alternative fuels or recertified under the updated York & New Jersey is advancing energy sources standard, indicating the port’s the agency’s commitments by • Reuse/recycling program ongoing commitment to continuous working closely with port partners, • Reduce energy usage environmental improvement. terminal operators, and the trucking community through a host NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT of environmental initiatives aiming to reduce emissions. Through these Since 2005, the Port of Long Beach has achieved an 88% reduction in Quadient various environmental initiatives, www.packagingbyquadient.com the port has been able to reduce diesel particulate emissions; a 58% Quadient provides two automated emissions in the past decade reduction in nitrogen oxides, and a packaging solutions models, the despite handling a 32% increase in 97% reduction in sulfur oxides. CVP Impack and CVP Everest. Using cargo volume over that timeframe. 100% recyclable materials and zero plastic, these systems create fit-to- GREEN INITIATIVES Port of Los Angeles size boxes for each single- or multi- • Reduce greenhouse www.portoflosangeles.org gas emissions item order and reduce unnecessary The Port of Los Angeles promotes void fill. The custom-fit parcels • Use alternative fuels or energy sources responsible growth and supports create an average of 50% reduction innovative development and site in shipping box volume and 29% • Reuse/recycling program restoration, which includes reducing less corrugate usage. They also • Reduce energy usage or eliminating environmental help limit a shipper’s environmental risks and impacts and performing footprint by using fewer delivery NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT environmental oversight and audits. trucks, reducing greenhouse The Port Authority of New York gas emissions. & New Jersey’s Clean Vessel Incorporating solar power is one way the port helps reduce greenhouse Incentive program provides GREEN INITIATIVES financial incentives to encourage gas emissions. To date, the port has installed nearly 3 megawatts of • Reduce greenhouse operators, charters, and agents gas emissions photovoltaic solar power systems at of ocean-going vessels calling at • Reuse/recycling program Port Authority marine terminals various locations on port property. • Sustainable packaging to make voluntary engine, fuel, The port has put in place several and technology enhancements. clean air action plans and emission- NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS The enhancements reduce reducing programs over the past Quadient customer Internet Fusion emissions beyond the regulatory decade, including a comprehensive Group saves 92 truckloads annually environmental standards set by the strategy to cut air pollution and due to fit-to-size packaging. International Maritime Organization. reduce health risks.

54 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS fuel-efficient trailers. For one of NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Raymond Corporation its large managed transportation The company’s Marlborough, www.raymondcorp.com customers, Redwood achieved Massachusetts, location is equipped effective sustainability results by with solar panels, and it uses LED Energy Essentials Distributed by optimizing, consolidating, and and motion sensor lights in 19 Raymond is the next generation accurately determining the best facilities across the United States. of lithium-ion batteries to deliver mode and shipping location, fast-charging power solutions moving 11 million more pounds housed in a denser footprint, of freight and reducing carbon providing companies with high- footprint by 2.3 million pounds performance energy sources to quarter over quarter. www.roehltransport.com optimize operations. Implementing Energy Essentials batteries provides GREEN INITIATIVES users with significant productivity • Reduce greenhouse enhancements, including increased gas emissions uptime and reduced electricity • Reuse/recycling program consumption by allowing for more time between charges. • Reduce energy usage • Sustainably source materials In addition, Raymond’s associates • Energy-efficient lighting participate in shutting down equipment during breaks and NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT weekends to eliminate power draw. In 2020, Redwood converted 2,855 truckload shipments to intermodal, GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse moving 115 million pounds of goods across the United States and gas emissions Roehl’s sustainability initiatives reduced carbon emissions by an • Use alternative fuels or include using equipment such as estimated 16 million pounds. energy sources trailers with trailer skirts and tails • Reuse/recycling program as well as low-rolling resistant tires. • Use wastewater Automatic tire inflation systems • Reduce energy usage Rinchem Company and door switches installed on • Sustainable packaging www.rinchem.com refrigerated trailers reduce idle. The company’s trucks also are • Sustainably source materials A CARB-compliant SmartWay outfitted with low-rolling resistant partner, Rinchem conducts • Solar panels tires, wheel covers, an aerodynamic paperless transactions through a • Energy-efficient lighting package, battery management custom online system, ChemStar. It systems, and direct fire heaters. operates on a just-in-time model, bringing in only as much material as Roehl’s facilities use LED lighting in needed to avoid excessive inventory the maintenance shops and yards. and transportation. Drivers are provided effective training on decreasing their fuel The company’s forklift fleet is 85% consumption and are incentivized electric to reduce carbon footprint to improve their miles-per- and miles per gallon. Rinchem gallon performance. recycles all cardboard and pallets and its reverse logistics program supports returnable totes/drums, GREEN INITIATIVES NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS • Reduce greenhouse which reduces waste and disposal Raymond has upgraded software gas emissions of plastics. for automated logic and lighting • Use alternative fuels or control programs to zone and energy sources GREEN INITIATIVES control factory and office lighting, • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce greenhouse heating, and air conditioning based gas emissions • Reduce energy usage on utilization. • Use alternative fuels or • Sustainably source materials energy sources • Energy-efficient lighting • Reuse/recycling program Redwood Logistics • Reduce energy usage NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT www.redwoodlogistics.com • Sustainably source materials Roehl Transport was a founding EPA SmartWay Partner in 2004. In A member of SmartWay since 2011, • Solar panels 2020, the company earned its 9th Redwood Logistics has set a goal • Energy-efficient lighting SmartWay Excellence Award; only to reduce more than 4.5 million 58 truck and multimodal carriers pounds of CO2 by the end of 2021 received the distinction last year. through the use of new and more

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 55 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse Romark Logistics gas emissions LTL Freight www.romarklogistics.com www.saia.com • Use alternative fuels or To meet its zero carbon footprint energy sources goal, Romark invested in rooftop • Reuse/recycling program solar arrays on its refrigerated • Reduce energy usage locations, upgraded to LED lighting, installed water conservation • Energy-efficient lighting equipment and cooling towers, made refrigeration changes, and NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS implemented the use of high- Ruan received the National efficient battery chargers. Biodiesel Board’s Initiative Award and an EPA Smartway Excellence Romark enforces recycling Award. The company is an ACT requirements for paper/cardboard, Fleet Forum founding member. plastics, glass, and metal. The company implemented idling For years, Saia LTL Freight has and speed management policies made substantial investments and to reduce fuel consumption and System process improvements to increase energy costs. www.ryder.com the fuel economy of its fleet and the energy efficiency of its facilities Ryder utilizes cleaner-burning GREEN INITIATIVES to reduce its carbon footprint. The fuels and invests in alternative company recently took delivery • Reduce greenhouse fuel technology. The company gas emissions of two Volvo VNR electric trucks. collaborates with electric vehicle The zero-emission, battery-electric • Use alternative fuels or manufacturers and has partnered energy sources tractors, a first for the company, will with InCharge to provide charging • Reuse/recycling program be based out of its Los Angeles, infrastructure. For automotive California, terminal. • Use wastewater waste, Ryder contracts vendors who • Reduce energy usage reuse and recycle. Each year, Ryder GREEN INITIATIVES recycles nearly 3 million gallons of • Sustainable packaging • Reduce greenhouse • Sustainably source materials used oil, 880,000+ gallons of oily gas emissions water, 12,000+ drums of used oil • Solar panels • Use alternative fuels or filters, and nearly 48,000 gallons • Energy-efficient lighting energy sources of solvent. • Reuse/recycling program NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT • Reduce energy usage GREEN INITIATIVES Romark replaced its fleet of tractors • Reduce greenhouse • Sustainably source materials with newer/compliant engines, gas emissions • Solar panels equipped its trucks with automatic • Use alternative fuels or • Energy-efficient lighting shutdown devices to keep them energy sources from idling too long, and installed • Reuse/recycling program NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS software on its tractors to monitor • Use wastewater Saia has been a SmartWay partner drivers and track fuel efficiency. • Reduce energy usage since 2006 and a SmartWay • Sustainable packaging Excellence Award recipient in 2018. LinkEx, a Saia Inc. subsidiary, • Sustainably source materials was named a 2020 SmartWay Ruan • Solar panels www.ruan.com High Performer. • Energy-efficient lighting Ruan trucks have traveled more than 100 million miles on natural gas power. Between 2016 and Scan Global Logistics 2020, Ruan purchased 126 million www.scangl.com gallons of varying biodiesel Scan Global has been a signatory blends. It purchased 2.3 million to the UN Global Compact since gallons of renewable diesel 2015 and supports the Compact’s blends in the past 2.5 years. Ruan principles and sustainable collaborates with electric vehicle development goals. It has adopted manufacturers to develop longer- NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS the Global Reporting Initiative lasting, lower-emitting engines with and the Sustainable Accounting improved performance and lower Ryder has received significant Standards Board guidelines for fuel consumption. recognition for its sustainability efforts such as the U.S. EPA’s sustainability reporting. By improving Sleeper vehicles in the Ruan fleet SmartWay High Achiever Award its efforts through a certified ISO have auxiliary power units. All (2020) and the SmartWay 14001 environmental management tractors have automatic engine Excellence Award (2013-2014, 2017). system, Scan Global ensures that it shutdown after 5 minutes. hits its sustainability targets.

56 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS GREEN INITIATIVES GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions Shippers Group gas emissions www.theshippersgroup.com • Use alternative fuels or NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS The Shippers Group has developed energy sources a proactive approach to reduce its Scan Global Logistics joined the • Reuse/recycling program environmental, energy, and social Science Based Targets initiative and • Reduce energy usage impacts. The company recycles committed to a goal aligned with approximately 7.6 million pounds • Solar panels limiting global warming to 1.5°C of cardboard and plastic per year • Energy-efficient lighting and reaching net-zero emissions and, where possible, uses low- by 2050. emission technology such as more NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT efficient vehicles and machinery. SEFL’s Support Center and 66 The Shippers Group utilizes company-owned service centers are Schneider renewable energy where feasible, fully equipped with LED lighting. www.schneider.com keeps vehicle maintenance current The remaining company-owned and prevents unnecessary idling. service centers will be completely Schneider recently announced The company employs water and equipped in 2021, making the a new set of corporate goals energy conservation, such as using company 100% LED by 2022. addressing actionable next steps energy-efficient light bulbs. around sustainability initiatives. These goals include a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by GREEN INITIATIVES Symbia Logistics 7.5% per mile by 2025, and a • Reduce greenhouse gas emissions www.symbia.com/sustainability reduction of 60% per mile by 2035; a commitment to doubling • Use alternative fuels or energy sources Schneider’s intermodal size by 2030, thus reducing carbon • Reuse/recycling program emissions by an additional 700 • Use wastewater million pounds per year; and a • Reduce energy usage commitment to achieve net zero • Sustainable packaging status for all company-owned • Energy-efficient lighting facilities by 2035. In 2021, Symbia implemented a NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS company-wide initiative to make its GREEN INITIATIVES The Shippers Group invests an warehouses eco-friendlier. Within • Reduce greenhouse estimated $227,000 annually in gas emissions the past year, Symbia has recycled sustainability initiatives. • Reuse/recycling program 13,942 tons of wood, 705 tons of metal, 426 tons of cardboard, • Reduce energy usage 19.2 tons of office waste and 1,340 pounds of plastic. It allocated 1.2 Southeastern Freight million square feet of motion- Lines activated lighting and replaced 75 www.sefl.com traditional propane forklifts with Southeastern Freight Lines (SEFL) new electric machines. generates renewable energy at two service center locations, Asheville GREEN INITIATIVES and South Houston, and has • Reduce greenhouse produced and/or consumed 14,356 gas emissions MWh of solar energy since 2013. • Use alternative fuels or energy sources The company harvests rainwater NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS for irrigation at its South Houston • Reuse/recycling program Schneider has committed to the location, and by fall 2021, its Fort • Reduce energy usage future of fleet electrification, Lauderdale location will have the • Sustainable packaging making necessary short- and long- ability to harvest rainwater for • Sustainably source materials term investments such as testing full-site irrigation. SEFL reduces • Energy-efficient lighting electrified powertrains, developing paper consumption by utilizing strategic zero-emission vehicle e-commerce solutions and NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT adoption plans, and building paperless billing, and recycles Symbia launched a reforestation relationships with key stakeholders cardboard, paper, wood, scrap campaign to plant one tree per and industry partners. metal, solvents, oil/oily water, filters, client every month, totaling more tires, and electronics at its service The company has been piloting than 1,500 trees annually. Symbia’s centers, maintenance shops, and the use of a Freightliner electric projects restore forests in the corporate office. The carrier secures eCascadia truck in California wake of major wildfires and repair freight with repurposed cardboard for local and regional delivery damage caused by industry and and wood pallets. and pickup. resource extraction.

June 2021 • Inbound Logistics 57 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS • Reuse/recycling program NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS TCI Transportation • Use wastewater UPS was named to the Forbes and www.tcitransportation.com • Reduce energy usage Just Capital annual Just 100 list for corporate citizenship for 2021, TCI Transportation has placed more • Sustainably source materials was recognized on the Dow Jones than 50 CNG Freightliner Cascadias • Solar panels Sustainability North America Index, into service in 2020 to move • Energy-efficient lighting and made The Civic 50, a listing by trash for LA County. The carrier the Points of Light Foundation that also placed an order and gave a NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS recognizes the 50 most community- $400,000 deposit to Tesla for 20 In 2021, Union Pacific recycled minded companies in the nation. electric tractors. Looking upward, 480,000 tons of scrap metal and TCI installed nearly 1 Mw of solar more than 1.96 million gallons of panels on the roofs of its facilities, oil and fuel. The company also which have all been outfitted with managed the largest industrial USA Truck LED lighting. wastewater collection system in www.usa-truck.com rail history. Among the company’s equipment GREEN INITIATIVES and facilities strategies, USA • Reduce greenhouse Truck has tightened tractor- gas emissions to-trailer gaps to reduce aero • Use alternative fuels or UPS drag; installed wheel and chassis energy sources www.ups.com aerodynamic devices; worked • Reuse/recycling program with engine and transmission • Reduce energy usage manufacturers to achieve best fuel • Solar panels economy; automated transmissions • Energy-efficient lighting for fuel economy gains; and implemented an ambient air NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT temperature-controlled idle control TCI Transportation is installing system to reduce idle time for charging stations in its largest battery charging. facilities. It also has electric yard USA Truck is testing solar powered tractors for sale or lease at its battery charging for reduced idle, Ottawa dealership. fuel burn, jump starts, and increased capacity; it is also testing solar- powered trailer telematics. The UPS invests in alternative fuel and company installs trailer skirts on Union Pacific advanced technology vehicles, and all trailer purchases, tests air disc www.up.com uses renewable energy to reduce brakes to reduce stopping distance Union Pacific has spent the past the environmental impact of its and increase brake lining life. USA 30 years overseeing environmental operations. Its “rolling laboratory”, Truck is testing three self-deploying compliance across its operations. which collects data about which trailer tails for aerodynamic and In 2021, the rail company set a alternative fuels and advanced MPG gains. target to reduce absolute 1 and 2 technologies work best in various greenhouse gas emissions from routes and areas, is always growing, GREEN INITIATIVES operations by 26% vs. 2018 baseline adding more vehicles and traveling • Reduce greenhouse by 2030. more miles using alternative fuel gas emissions Also this year, the company and advanced technologies. • Reduce energy usage helped fight wildfires across The company has provided millions • Solar panels Northern California with its of dollars for global environmental • Energy-efficient lighting innovative Water Train; helped initiatives focused on climate customers eliminate 21.9 million change, renewable energy, and NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT metric tons of greenhouse gas resource conservation. As part of its During the past three years, USA emissions by choosing rail over Global Forestry Initiative, UPS has Truck has averaged a CO2 gram- truck transportation; introduced planted more than 1.3 million trees per-mile reduction of 20, which is a fleet of true hybrid refrigerated around the world. equal to a total reduction of CO2 by box cars; and implemented 11,785 metric tons. utility conservation projects that GREEN INITIATIVES reduced energy consumption by • Reduce greenhouse 2 million kilowatts. gas emissions • Use alternative fuels or GREEN INITIATIVES energy sources www.werner.com • Reduce greenhouse • Reduce energy usage Werner announced its formalized gas emissions • Sustainable packaging Environmental, Social and • Use alternative fuels or Governance (ESG) initiative in energy sources • Solar panels • Energy-efficient lighting 2020. This launch, along with other

58 Inbound Logistics • June 2021 GREEN GSUPPLY7 CHAIN5 PARTNERS ongoing efforts, enhances its efforts GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce energy usage to communicate ESG progress to • Reduce greenhouse • Sustainable packaging gas emissions associates, customers, shareholders, • Sustainably source materials suppliers, and the general public, • Use alternative fuels or • Solar panels as well as identifying new areas for energy sources • Energy-efficient lighting further improvement. • Reuse/recycling program • Reduce energy usage Werner has eliminated 310 million NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT • Sustainable packaging gallons in fuel consumption, In 2021, XPO was honored by Dow improved fuel efficiency by more • Energy-efficient lighting for environmental stewardship than 29% and reduced more than in transportation. 3.4 million tons of CO2 since 2007. NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT Werner has a goal of 55% reduction WSI recently joined Together for of carbon emissions by 2035. At Sustainability and completed the its terminals and facilities, Werner EcoVadis audit to identify how it Yale Materials recycles or repurposes 100% of can continue improving policies batteries, liquids, and tires. The Handling Corporation and practices. www.yale.com company converted to 100% LED lighting in all its facilities and The Yale Power Suite offers a wide continually introduces technology range of power sources, including to reduce paper use. XPO Logistics hydrogen fuel cells, lithium-ion, www.xpo.com internal combustion engines and lead-acid batteries, across its line of GREEN INITIATIVES • Reduce greenhouse lift trucks. Users can select a power gas emissions solution built around their specific • Use alternative fuels or operation’s cost, labor, maintenance, energy sources emissions, space and other • Reuse/recycling program requirements. The result is a power option that helps eliminate harmful • Reduce energy usage emissions, off-gassing, and other • Sustainably source materials hazardous chemicals. A lithium-ion • Energy-efficient lighting battery pack, for example, can last more than four times longer than NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS In 2021, XPO partnered with Daimler a lead-acid battery, helping reduce Werner is a founding member Trucks North America to test their recycling waste. of the SmartWay program and a battery-electric commercial trucks 2020 EPA SmartWay Excellence under real-life operating conditions GREEN INITIATIVES and SmartWay High Performer in California. The company is also • Reduce greenhouse award winner. piloting electric vehicles in some gas emissions European markets. • Use alternative fuels or energy sources XPO continues to expand its fleet • Reuse/recycling program of alternative fuel vehicles and WSI (Warehouse • Reduce energy usage in 2021 added 85 new liquified Specialists, LLC) • Energy-efficient lighting www.wsinc.com natural gas vehicles in Europe, bringing the fleet to 225. The WSI drives numerous green logistics company is switching NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT initiatives in its facilities and to 100% premium diesel, which Powering a Yale lift truck with transportation services. WSI is translates to up to 2.5% fuel savings. hydrogen fuel cells lets users refuel a Responsible Care Partner and XPO has developed software in as quick as three minutes and get Responsible Distribution Certified to optimize truck routes, which consistent power delivery with zero and participates in SmartWay and reduces congestion, empty miles, harmful emissions. Operation Clean Sweep. and emissions. In addition, XPO The company uses electric- is installing solar panels, starting powered equipment whenever with two sites in New Jersey, possible; maintains active recycling which have the potential to reduce programs at all facilities amounting CO2 emissions by 3,755 metric to thousands of tons of materials tons annually. recycled each year; and operates an ongoing program to relight GREEN INITIATIVES facilities with energy-efficient • Reduce greenhouse lighting equipment. gas emissions • Use alternative fuels or energy sources • Reuse/recycling program • Use wastewater

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