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Striving for the most sustainable transport and logistics solutions that are economically feasible has been one of our core areas of focus since 2010. In 2023, we took significant measures again, taking six additional electric trucks into operation and building charging plazas in Oss and Woerden to power them, partly using solar energy from the roofs of our buildings. We expanded our use of HVO100 renewable diesel fuel on behalf of customers, helping them achieve up to 90% carbon emission reduction on transport. The highlight on Technische Unie offers one example of HVO insetting. We replaced over a third of our truck fleet; the new vehicles have significantly lower fuel consumption and hence lower carbon emissions, in an order of magnitude of 15%. And finally, we are exploring the feasibility of hydrogen-powered trucks for both national distribution and international transport. As hydrogen infrastructure throughout Europe shapes up, this could soon be an interesting new option for zero-emission transport in the longer term. We continued our commitment to Operation Clean Sweep, a global industry initiative to reduce loss of plastic pellets in the value chain.
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CSRD
CSRD In 2023, we took up preparations for implementing sustainability reporting according to the CSR directive. The European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSR directive or CSRD) modernizes and strengthens the rules concerning the social and environmental information that companies must report. Through CSRD, comparing companies in sectors like transport and logistics on sustainability performance becomes easier and more transparent. For stock exchange listed companies, it went into effect at the beginning 2024, while non-listed companies like Vos Logistics must comply starting 2025. Vos Logistics published its first sustainability report in 2010. We have identified 6 relevant and auditable sustainability KPI’s which have been consistently reported in our annual integrated financial and sustainability reports since then. This puts us in an excellent position for implementing the directive. Part of our efforts toward implementation was a gap analysis to chart what existing performance indicators need to be adapted and what new ones need to be developed for compliance.
Carbon footprint of premises
In 2023, all our buildings performed well within the limits posed by the Paris Agreement for built environment carbon emissions, a first for Vos Logistics. Over the last couple of years, we have conducted various efforts at reducing energy consumption of buildings, for instance by replacing tube lighting by LED, and generating power through solar panel arrays on roofs. The high prices for natural gas in 2022 and 2023 incentivized us to reduce excessive gas consumption at one particular facility, bringing it within limits. As part of our commitment to the highest feasible standards of sustainability, we will work to keep emissions below limit and strive to lower them further wherever possible.
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