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75 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, Averitt Express • 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