Toll Today March 2011 - TOLL Group

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Smarter Green Strategy
Tackles Climate Change and Energy risks
Demand for logistics services will grow markedly over
the next few decades, as the global population leaps
by up to 40 percent by 2050 and new powerhouse
Asian economies dictate significant changes in patterns
of wealth and influence.
This represents a major growth opportunity for Toll, which is
positioning itself as a key global logistics operation focused
on Asia, in particular the region’s three largest economies
of China, Japan and India.
All this requires energy. For Toll this is currently gained by
burning fossil fuels, mainly diesel. This reliance comes with
a number of problems, as our global fossil fuel supply
is finite and it generates greenhouse gases which are
attributed to causing climate change. “Toll therefore faces
the dual risks of meeting rising energy demands in its
operations and at the same time transitioning to lower
carbon emissions intensities,” said nick Prescott,
Toll’s Group Environment and Energy Manager.
Toll’s Smarter Green strategy is addressing these risks
through a number of complimentary programs by focussing
on Smarter Energy Efficiency and Smarter Fuels transitioning
Toll Global Forwarding’s involvement in one of the
world’s toughest air quality programs in the US will
have a positive impact on Toll globally as lessons
learnt are applied to other Toll businesses.
Toll Global Forwarding in the US is an active partner in
the groundbreaking San Pedro Ports Authority’s Clean
Air Action Plan in California.
“The company must meet and exceed some of the toughest
global air quality standards in a precinct rated as the world’s
fifth busiest container seaport,” said Hugh Cushing, CEO
of Toll Global Forwarding.
from diesel to a range of alternative fuels such as biofuels,
natural gas, hydrogen and in the longer term to pure
renewable energy sources, in order to reduce our intensity
of carbon dioxide emissions.
This strategy is being coordinated globally across Toll
by the Group Environment and Energy team.
Nick said, “Effectively dealing with risks and adapting to
change is nothing new for Toll, we have always had an
appetite for smart solutions to minimise risk, particularly
through the ingenuity of our people and systems, and by
applying innovative technologies to problems. So we are
confident of meeting these major environmental and energy
challenges over time”.
Toll’s drive for smart, efficient solutions has put us at the
leading edge of energy efficiency and greenhouse gas
emission strategies in many of our operations. However,
much more needs to be done. And Toll recently announced
a target to further cut its Australian carbon dioxide
emissions by 20 percent of 2010 levels by 2020. Similar
targets will be set for overseas operations. n
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“We will continue to do this, and will look for opportunities
to apply the lessons learnt to other Toll businesses”.
Toll’s fleet of 50 company owned vehicles, as well as various
sub-contractors, provide a cartage service, known as
‘pier drayage’, to the Port Authority’s Los Angeles port.
They must meet stringent exhaust emission standards for
registration with the Plan’s Clean Truck Fleet Program to
gain access to the ports without paying a volume-based
emission fee of US$35 per TEU.
Registration standards require vehicles to run on diesel fuel
which emits no more than 15 parts per million (ppm) of
sulphur, equivalent to trucks manufactured after 2007. By
comparison, diesel sold in Australia in 2007 had a sulphur
content of no more than 50 ppm.
“Our fleet’s ongoing participation is a major point of
differentiation for us as we minimise the impact of doing
business to our environment and help the bottom line,”
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