Biogros, lux-Airport, Offergeld Logistik, POST Rewarded at Lean & Green Awards 2020

In order to value the sustainability goals achieved in 2020 by the companies participating in the Lean & Green programme, Cluster for Logistics Luxembourg organised the annual Lean & Green Awards on Tuesday 13 October 2020.

At this year's Lean and Green Awards, four additional companies were awarded for their efforts and achievements regarding the reduction of CO2 emissions generated from transportation and logistics activities.

Biogros Sàrl, lux-Airport, Offergeld Logistik and POST Luxembourg joined a club of more than 200 companies within Europe which have succeeded in reducing their CO2 emissions from transportation and logistics activities by more than 20% within five years. While lux-Airport, Offergeld Logistik and POST Luxembourg received the 1st Lean and Green Star (emission reduction of >20% CO2), Biogros Sàrl is the first-ever company in Luxembourg to receive the 2nd Lean & Green Star (emission reduction of >30% CO2 & collaborative sustainable project). In Luxembourg, the first three companies join the sustainability pioneers in the field of logistics, Arthur Welter, CFL multimodal and LuxairCARGO, which received their 1st Lean & Green Star back in 2018.

The Lean & Green programme is a sustainable logistics initiative implemented in 2009 by a Dutch nonprofit network for sustainable mobility called Connekt. The initiative encourages companies from the logistics and transportations sector to implement a set of self-defined optimisation measures in order to reduce their CO2 emissions linked to transportation activities by at least 20% and thus to make the best use of their resources by saving costs (Lean) and reducing emissions (Green). In Luxembourg, the Lean & Green programme was adopted in 2014 in collaboration with the Ministry of Mobility and Public Works and in the recent years, more than a dozen of companies have achieved different sustainability levels within the programme.

The Lean & Green Awards 2020 were organised at the Chamber of Commerce by the Cluster for Logistics Luxembourg in collaboration with the Ministry of Mobility and Public Works under the form of a hybrid event, allowing interested parties to watch the award ceremony live. The attendance of the Minister of Energy and Spatial Planning, Claude Turmes, at this year’s award ceremony underlined the inter-sectorial recognition of the Lean & Green programme and highlighted the importance of integrating innovative and alternative energies into logistics activities.

The four awarded companies at the Lean & Green Awards 2020 were:

- Biogros Sàrl - 2nd Lean & Green Star: As a sub-division of the Oikopolis group, Biogros Sàrl is active as a wholesaler of organic food. As part of the Lean & Green programme, Biogros Sàrl has implemented various sustainability measures that have enabled the company to reduce its CO2 emissions by around 47% compared to 2018. The organic food wholesaler was also able to start a collaborative project with a competitor called DENNREE. Implemented measures included toute planning reorganisation and optimisation, the implementation of a tyre pressure control system and use of an E-truck (end of 2020).

- lux-Airport - 1st Lean & Green Star: lux-Airport, also known as Société de l'Aéroport de Luxembourg, is the only international and the largest airport in Luxembourg. As part of the Lean & Green programme, lux-Airport has implemented several sustainability measures that have enabled the company to reduce its CO2 emissions by around 26% compared to 2016. Among the measures implemented were electric vehicles for the staff, the demolition of old energy-intensive buildings and the optimisation of heating and cooling infrastructure.

- Offergeld Logistik - 1st Lean & Green Star: Offergeld Logistik is a logistics service provider which offers various transportation and logistics services ranging from road transportation over warehousing to Logistics 4.0. As part of the Lean & Green programme, Offergeld Logistik has implemented several sustainability measures that have enabled the company to reduce its CO2 emissions by around 31% compared to 2014. Among the measures implemented were the fleet renewal of lorries and trailers, eco-driving and the implementation of a tyre pressure monitoring system.

- Post Luxembourg - 1st Lean & Green Star:: As the country's leading postal and telecommunications services operator, POST Luxembourg also offers ICT, financial and logistics services to its private and professional customers. As part of the Lean & Green programme, POST has implemented several sustainability measures that have enabled the company to reduce its CO2 emissions by around 21% compared to 2014. Measures included the optimisation of delivery processes, the electrification of delivery fleet and the implementation of a CO2 management system.