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Featured Partner: Deutsche Post DHL Group
ABOUT DEUTSCHE POST DHL
GROUP
Founded in California in 1969, DHL
was acquired by Deutsche Post in
2005. Today, as part of Deutsche Post
DHL Group, DHL operates four hey
U.S.-based business units, all of which
participate in SmartWay: DHL Express,
DHL eCommerce Solutions, DHL Global
Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain.
Through both its express delivery and
supply chain management operations,
DHL has a dedicated fleet that runs a
mix of line-haul, regional and last-mile
delivery. Its transportation brokerage
group sources additional capacity
and manages and services a large,
diversified network of several hundred
large and independent domestic
carriers.
DHL's group of companies leverages
its dedicated and contracted carrier
network to provide a comprehensive
suite of products and services, including
end-to-end supply chain management,
domestic and international express
parcel and freight delivery, less-than
truckload, line-haul, air, and ocean
freight transport.
DHL
1210 S. Pine Island Road
Plantation, FL 33324
1 (800) 225 5345
www.dhl.com
a As the world's largest logistics company, Deutsche Post DHL Group (DHL)
has a responsibility to set an example and help guide our industry to a more
sustainable future. For the past decade, virtually all of DHL's U.S.-based
business divisions have participated in SmartWay. The program has played an
integral part in helping DHL and its partners protect the climate by measuring
and reducing carbon and other GHG emissions from our freight operations.
— Greg Hewitt, CEO, DHL Express U.S.
DHL ACCELERATES ITS SUSTAIN ABILITY ROADMAP
Five years ago, Deutsche Post DHL Group publicly committed to reduce its
Logistics-reLated, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to net zero by 2050.
More recently, using 2020 as a baseline for growth, the company announced
interim goals to reduce its 2030 emissions footprint to 29 metric tons. In setting
its goals, DHL used principles established by the Science Based Target initiative,
orSBTi.
To reach its goals, DHL is stepping up efforts to deploy technologies and
strategies that are proven to reduce and eliminate GHG emissions from the
trucks, other modes of transport, freight equipment, warehouses, and buildings
that DHL owns and operates. It also is testing and verifying many emerging
technologies that show promise. At the same time, DHL is working to develop
the sustainability of its logistics network and the supply chain management
services it offers.
ELECTRIFICATION IN THE LAST
MILE, EXPRESS DELIVERY
Last-mile delivery is core to DHL's
business operations, and nearly a fifth
of the company's existing last-mile
fleet is composed of net zero emission
vehicles. These vehicles include 18,000
light-duty 'StreetScooter' delivery vans,
and several thousand e-bikes and
e-cargo trikes, the majority of which
operate in Europe. By 2030, DHL's aim is
to have more than 80,000 e-vehicles, or
60 percent of its gLobaL Last-mile fleet
running on cLean eLectricity as a power
source.
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In the U.S., DHL took a small, but important step forward to electrify its last-mile domestic fleet last year, when after a
successful pilot, it started deploying nearly 100 new, fully electric Class 2b delivery vans in New York and San Francisco.
The new electric vans represent an enhancement to the company's domestic fleet of alternatively fueled vehicles,
which currently runs on a mix of fully electric, hybrid-electric and clean diesel varieties - in addition to low-power
electric-assist e-Cargo Cycles
To date, the EV deployment in New York and San Francisco shows promise and will help DHL pave the way to
electrification in the U.S. The new electric delivery vehicles consistently operate on a range of 125 miles a day with just
a single charge - and are achieving just over 60 MPGe (mile per gallon equivalency) as compared to 13 MPG for
simiLargasoLine-powered vans. In their first years of operation, DHL reports the electric vans in New York have reduced
its traditional fuel use by 2,272 gallons and prevented the release of 20.2 metric tons of carbon during 1,767 days in use.
DHL has also launched four BYD Class 8 battery-electric trucks, which are based in Los Angeles and will prevent more
than 300 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere per year.
HYDROGEN FOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT
Though the benefits of battery electrification are particularly well suited to DHL's
last-mile truck fleet, the company is also testing the use of hydrogen fuel cell
electric technology in its global express network. This work is focused on shifting
DHL away from its use of petroleum-based fuel in its fleet of 1,600 pieces of heavy-
duty ground support equipment (GSE).
In a pilot that started last year here in the U.S. at a major DHL hub operating out of
the Cincinnati airport (CVG), the company commissioned and installed a temporary
hydrogen refueling station for several pieces of its equipment including high loaders,
baggage tractors, and belt loaders. For its GSE fleet, DHL sees the potential for
hydrogen fuel cell electric equipment to meet the demands of busy airport hubs
that operate in areas where local utilities may not be able to scale up and charge
heavy equipment and big battery electric fleets that operate 24/7.
Later this year, DHL will report on the emissions benefits of its pilot, and the
operational feasibility of hydrogen fuel cell electric GSE. That report also wi 11
include an assessment of the cost and feasibility of installing large-scale, permanent
green hydrogen infrastructure, which could not only fuel GSE, but other hydrogen-
powered vehicles as well.
GREEN LOGISTICS AND EMISSIONS ACCOUNTABILITY
In addition to its investment in the freight equipment it owns and operates, DHL is
committed to offering logistics services that support its shipper and carrier partners
that want to address climate change too. To that end, the company understands
that the first step to reducing emissions is to measure and establish a baseline
inventory of freight-related emissions, not an easy task.
To make it easier, DHL offers its partners a 'GoGreen' service, where DHL customers
have access to carbon emissions data that can be calculated at the shipment
level, for regional, national, and international shipments of all sizes - everything
from parcels to shipping containers. Specifically, the GoGreen service includes
a calculator that helps shippers understand what factors affect the emissions of
transporting their goods and run different scenarios. These factors include mode,
truck size, a carrier's environmental performance, and routing options, among other
inputs. Using the calculator, DHL and its customers can adjust those factors and
find opportunities that can help both reduce freight emissions and achieve cost
efficiencies.
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Featured Partner: Deutsche Post DHL Group (continued)
Carbon offsetting through investment in "climate protection" projects and carbon
reduction through Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) usage is also available. And
customers can also aggregate these shipments and track the environmental
performance of their freight operations annually.
DHL has also introduced a global DHL Green Carrier Certification to reward road
transport subcontractors for their efforts to become more sustainable.
Notably, for its North American customers, DHL has developed proprietary
algorithms using SmartWay data to drive more freight to better performing
carriers. The company can run scenarios for customers to show how much it would
cost - and how much C02 they'd save - to transition to a more eco-friendly carrier.
DHL can also bring in other criteria to the algorithm, like diverse-owned or woman-
owned carriers. So, for example, if a customer wants to see what it would look like
to move to a diverse-owned carrier with better emissions performance, DHL can
run predictive scenarios and provide the data they need to make a decision. They
can also track actual performance of that decision overtime using the company's
Transport Management System and proprietary analytics tools.
LOOKING AHEAD
Deutsche Post DHL Group knows that its 2050 net-zero emissions goal is ambitious.
Between now and 2030, the company has set aside nearly $8 billion USD to help set
the stage and support that goal. Those funds will be used to seed a major overhaul
of its freight equipment to run on clean electricity and other sustainable fuels,
including green hydrogen, and renewable fuels. It also is using and supports the
development of future emissions trading and credit systems that will engender new,
clean energy sources in other industries and communities throughout the world. It
expects these systems will play an increasingly important role in the upgrades and
improvements it has planned for its extensive network of warehouses, distribution
hubs and office structures.
Further, DHL is committed to cultivating a culture that embraces a sustainable
work ethic and ethos. With a workforce dedicated to transforming the energy
sources needed to power its operations, it believes it can establish relationships
with customers and partners that will reshape the industry and ensure a healthy
environment for generations well into the future, including 2050 and beyond.
Please visit the SmartWay website at www.epa.gov/smartway
for more information about our Partners.
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