Panalpina improved its sustainability performance

Panalpina’s 2014 corporate sustainability report describes the company’s efforts to find effective ways to reduce its impact on the environment

Panalpina improved its sustainability performance across the board in 2014, as various metrics show. Corporate-wide greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 7 per cent, including a 21 per cent decrease attributable to business-related travel. Energy used for heating decreased by 14 per cent, paper usage by 8 per cent and water consumption by 9 per cent.

The report also describes Panalpina’s PanGreen sustainability program. PanGreen, which is the focal point for the company’s sustainability initiatives, enjoys strong support across the organisation. This was demonstrated by the broad employee engagement during Panalpina’s first global Environmental Day.

In addition, the report documents employee training and development efforts, and further improvements to its already robust quality, health and safety programs.

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) score for 2014 will be available in a few months’ time because of the comprehensive data analysis involved. The last CDP score showed a 10-point increase from 2012 to 2013 to 85 points. Panalpina expects that it can maintain or even improve on this already high score once the 2014 data has been evaluated by CDP.

“Sustainability is no longer a nice-to-have for Panalpina,” says Karl Weyeneth, Panalpina’s chief commercial officer. “We want to manage our resources effectively and be a good corporate citizen. At the same time, more and more of our customers want their suppliers to address this topic credibly.”

The 2014 Corporate Sustainability Report was prepared in accordance with the latest G4 version of the corporate sustainability reporting standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). It was produced with the support of Sustainserv, an international sustainability consultancy based in Zurich, Switzerland and Boston, USA.

The Panalpina Group with headquarters in Basels, Switzerland is one of the world’s leading providers of supply chain solutions. The company combines its core products of Air Freight, Ocean Freight, and Logistics to deliver globally integrated, tailor-made end-to-end solutions. The Panalpina Group operates a global network with some 500 offices in more than 70 countries, and it works with partner companies in a further 90 countries. Panalpina employs over 16,000 people worldwide.

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