SmartWay®
Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
2OI4 Excellence Award
Award ee Highlights
The 2014 SmartWay Excellence Awards program for shippers, logistics
companies and freight carriers is a recognition program of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) SmartWay Transport
Partnership. SmartWay is a voluntary program that aims to reduce emissions
and foster the development of a clean and efficient freight supply chain.
Through the SmartWay Excellence Awards program, EPA recognizes leading
shippers, logistics companies and freight carriers that are optimizing the
environmental performance and efficiency of their freight operations, while
serving as role models for other businesses to follow. This year we are
recognizing 55 companies (seven shippers, four logistics companies, and 44
truck carriers) with a 2014 SmartWay Excellence Award. This represents about
the top one percent of all SmartWay Partners.
The 2014 SmartWay awards recognition is based on partners demonstrating
superior performance using SmartWay's second generation environmental
assessment system for transportation supply chains. This enhanced system
includes a full suite of performance-based SmartWay tools and benchmarking
software that enable each SmartWay partner to complete a thorough
assessment of its goods movement and freight activity. Partners also receive
a comprehensive and detailed report on their company's environmental
performance and efficiency.
EPA identified the top 2014 SmartWay Excellence Awardees from among all
shippers, logistics and carrier businesses that participate in SmartWay are
partners in good standing, and that provided prior-year performance data to
EPA using SmartWay tools.
Nominees in SmartWay's shipper and logistics management categories were
evaluated based on their impact, size and commitment to using high-performing
SmartWay freight carriers. In 2014, eligible shippers and logistics companies
were partners in good standing and used real world data to complete their
SmartWay shipper and logistics management tools. The selected candidates
achieved a superior level of environmental performance and the highest level of
efficiency within SmartWay by demonstrating that they ship more goods per
mile, more efficiently using higher performing SmartWay carrier partners.
Nominees in SmartWay's freight carrier category were evaluated based on their
efficiency and environmental performance in moving products and merchandise.
In 2014, eligible carriers included large and medium-to-small companies that
are partners in good standing within key business sectors, including: truckload,
less-than-truckload, refrigerated, package, specialized, expedited, tanker, flatbed,
mixed, dray, heavy haul, auto-carrier, moving and multimodal freight operations.
Within these respective fleet characterizations and based on their size,
these carriers achieved a superior level of environmental performance and
the highest level of efficiency within SmartWay by demonstrating that
they carry more goods per ton-mile, using less fuel and emitting fewer
greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions.
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Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
2OI4 Excellence Award
Awardee Highlights
SMARTWAY SHIPPER & LOGISTICS COMPANY AWARDS
The 2014 SmartWay Excellence Awards for shippers and
logistics management companies honor partners that
are helping build a market for clean and efficient freight
transportation by shipping virtually all of their products
and merchandise (98 % for shippers and 80% for logistics
partners) with high-performing SmartWay carriers.
SmartWay shipper and logistics awardees also were selected
based on achieving superior environmental and efficiency
benchmarks among all other SmartWay partners. These
performance benchmarks for shippers were derived through
an assessment of the partner's carbon dioxide (C02),
particulate matter (PM), and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions
measured in grams per mile.
Within the shipper and logistics management categories,
EPA proudly recognizes seven of its shippers and four of
its logistics partners as recipients of a 2014 SmartWay
Excellence Award. These shipper and logistics awards are
congratulated for their achievements in choosing to work
with high-performing SmartWay freight carriers and finding
ways to move more goods, more ton-miles using less fuel
and emitting fewer emissions. They are SmartWay's top
performing shipper and logistics partners and include
large, medium and small firms that move a broad range of
products and merchandise.
SmartWay Shipper Awards
EPA selected these seven SmartWay shipper awardees
because they are the top environmental performers and
industry leaders. These shippers were selected from
part of a larger pool of semi-finalist candidates using the
SmartWay 2014 Awards Criteria (PDF) (2 pp, 656K, EPA-
420-F-I4-OI2, March 2014). The semi-finalists competed in
large and medium/small mileage categories to demonstrate
leadership actions that support SmartWay environmental
goals. The awardees were selected by EPA based on their
achievements in the areas of: effective collaboration,
advanced technology and operational practices, a robust
system to validate and report their SmartWay data, and
communications and public outreach efforts.
SmartWay's 2014 large shipper awardees that are moving
goods more than 500 million miles annually and includes:
Hewlett-Packard, Lowe's Companies, Inc. and The Home
Depot U.S.A., Inc.
SmartWay's 2014 medium shipper awardees are moving
goods between 25 and 500 million miles and include: Johns
Manville, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and S.C.Johnson
and Son, Inc.
SmartWay's 2014 small shipper awardee, moving goods fewer
than 25 million annual miles shipped is Nordstrom, Inc.
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Transport Partnership
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
2OI4 Excellence Award
Awardee Highlights
SmartWay Logistics Awards
EPA selected these four SmartWay logistics awardees
because they are the top environmental performers and
industry leaders. These logistics partners were selected
from part of a larger pool of semi-finalist candidates using
the SmartWay 2014 Awards Criteria (PDF) (2 pp,656K, EPA-
420-F-I4-OI2, March 2014). All semi-finalists competed in
large and medium/small mileage categories to demonstrate
leadership actions that support SmartWay environmental
goals. These logistics awardees were selected by EPA based
on their achievements in the areas of: effective collaboration,
advanced technology and operational practices, a robust
system to validate and report their SmartWay data, and
communications and public outreach efforts.
The 2014 logistics management awardees demonstrated
superior performance and effectively moved 80% of all the
goods managed using only SmartWay carriers.
SmartWay's 2014 large logistics management awardees are
moving goods more than 200 million miles annually and
include: Expediters International of Washington, Inc.,
Menlo Logistics and Ryder Supply Chain Solutions.
SmartWay's 2014 small logistics management awardee,
moving goods less than 200 million miles annually is
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Recognition Ceremony.
The annual SmartWay Excellence Award honors top shipping (retailers and manufacturers) and logistics
company partners for superior efficiency and additional actions to reduce freight emissions through effective
collaboration, advanced technology and operational practices, a robust system for validating and reporting
their SmartWay data and communications and public outreach. Shippers and logistics company partners will be
recognized as SmartWay Excellence Award recipients:
Tuesday, September 23,2014 @ 8 A.M. CDT
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
200 E Market St.
San Antonio, Texas 78205
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