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Environment

DB Schenker is on its way to become the leading provider of green logistics services.

Principles of Sustainability
Commitment to sustainability is stipulated in the DB Group's Mission Statement:

What is our goal?
We are becoming the world's leading Mobility and Logistics Company.
We will offer our customers innovative and individualized mobility and logistics solutions from a single source. We will intelligently link together the various modes of transport in an economical and ecological way.

How is this done?
We convince customers, employees and owners.
Our commitment is based on our belief in a social society. We see ourselves as the pioneers of organized traffic that is climate and environmentally friendly.

Environment Goals
DB Schenker is on its way to becoming the leading provider of Green Logistics services. We enhance the carbon footprint of our customers. That means we devise and optimize the customer's transport chain according to both economical and ecological aspects.

Between 1990 and 2007, the DB Group reduced its specific carbon emissions in rail transport, i.e. carbon emissions per passenger or ton of freight and kilometer, by nearly 40%.

Group-wide environmental targets
DB AG has developed Group-wide environmental targets based on its experience in rail transport. Deutsche Bahn has established its "Climate Protection Program 2020" to reduce its specific carbon emissions by 20% from 2006 to 2020 – on land, sea and in the air. The program naturally includes the freight forwarding and logistics areas, as well as stationary processes. Major contributions will be made primarily by sensibly linking various modes of transport, by new and energy-efficient vehicles, achieving an even greater capacity utilization rate for the vehicles and in fuel-efficient driving methods used by specially trained truck and train drivers.

Environmental targets of DB Schenker
DB Schenker is on its way to becoming the leading provider of Green Logistics services. Our logistics network comprises all modes of transport from truck, through to air and ocean freight as well as logistics services. Thanks to this broad spectrum of expertise, DB Schenker can pursue a comprehensive approach to environmental protection and offer our customers the most useful service – in both economical and ecological terms.

DB Schenker is realizing enormous possibilities for carbon savings above all by intelligently linking together the various modes of transport. Further carbon reduction can also be achieved by:

• Close cooperation with and monitoring of subcontractors in the areas of land transport, and air and ocean freight;
• Bundling services through hub systems and higher occupancy rates;
• Using modern, environment-friendly vehicles for rail freight and land transport in Europe;
• Training truck drivers and train drivers along the lines of fuel-efficient driving.

Last modified: 07.07.2011