Alpensped Sees the Future in Combined Transport

The logistics service provider Alpensped aims to reduce its ecological corporate footprint by 50 percent by 2025 and to operate climate-neutral by 2030. This is stated in the fifth sustainability report that the company has just published. To achieve this ambitious goal, the family business focuses on reduction and partial compensation.

(Mannheim) Alpensped offers transport services in 25 European countries. These services accounted for 99 percent of the corporate carbon footprint (CCF) of the logistics provider last year, amounting to 17,950 tons of CO₂e. “Although we have grown enormously since the publication of our first sustainability report in 2011 and more than doubled the number of our shipments to nearly 67,000, we have managed to reduce the specific transport carbon footprint (kg CO₂e per shipment) by more than half (112 percent),” emphasizes Alpensped Managing Director Christian Faggin. However, the family business is not satisfied with this. By 2030, Alpensped aims to operate completely climate-neutral and considers shifting transport to rail as the most effective lever.

The importance of climate protection for the Mannheim logistics service provider has been clearly demonstrated again by the materiality analysis. Therefore, the company pursues several approaches: “We reduce our CO₂ emissions through the use of the latest generation of trucks, through shipment bundling, and through driver training for particularly energy-efficient driving,” Faggin emphasizes. The most important approach for Alpensped is combined transport, as it allows for a reduction of around 45 percent CO₂e compared to pure road transport. Christian Faggin: “For this reason, we are increasingly trying to conduct more transports by rail, either as combined transports (KV) or via the rolling road (RoLa). We want to significantly expand this in the coming years.”

Sustainability Report Addresses Additional Topics

In addition, Alpensped has been compensating its CO₂ emissions for more than 10 years and supports projects from myclimate for this purpose. To enable customers to have climate-neutral transport as well, Alpensped launched the climate initiative 50/50 for joint compensation in 2019 and has already taken several customers along this path.

In addition to climate protection and social responsibility, Alpensped’s fifth sustainability report addresses further topics such as economic development, digital transformation, and charitable engagement. Even during the Corona-affected reporting period from 2018 to 2020, Alpensped continued its commitment in the area of corporate social responsibility.

Download the Report:

https://www.alpensped.de/nachhaltigkeit/nachhaltigkeitsbericht/

Photo: © Alpensped / Image Caption: Christian Faggin Managing Director Alpensped