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Table 2
(continued)
Using Lean Lift warehouse shelves with Ecodrive
system (product made by Hanel company) which
guarantee working time savings, reduction of storage
space, and most importantly reduction of energy costs.
They operate based on a frequency converter with an
integrated recycling unit which uses the energy of a
downward moving extractor and converts it back into
electrical energy, which is supplied to the electrical
grid. Depending on the extractor type and the load,
up to 40 % of the energy needed to move upwards is
channeled back to the electrical grid Knehr (
2013
)
Warehouse equipment
Transport
Delivery consolidation and investing in electric
delivery cars, which are a real alternative to vehicles
with diesel engines. The Freight Electric Vehicles in
Urban Europe (FREVUE) programme (financed by
the European Commission's FP7 Programme) has
been dealing with promotion of solutions of this kind
among logistic operators. UPS and TNT Express are
among the companies involved in this project (Taefi
et al.
2014
)
Source
Own work based on Gruszecka-Tie´luk (
2013
), Knehr (
2013
), Michałowska and
Przybysz (
2012
), Radomska-Deutsch (
2010
), Taefi et al. (
2014
)
Table 3
Examples of CSR reports in logistics industry
Company's
name
CSR report name
Website
DB sustainability report
DB Schenker
Committed to more
UPS
The and makes the
difference
DHL
Annual report
TNT
CSR report
Nipppon
Express
Vos Logistics
Eco-safe logistics
Due to the ongoing consolidation of the logistics industry, as well as the strong
dependence of weaker entities on outsourcing, the industry leaders should be par-
ticularly important in the development of CSR activities.
In recent years, more and more frequent CSR activity and socially responsible
attitudes can be noticed among logistics companies. The scope of their activities
is very different—from one-off actions, through support for specific programs, to
long-term, integrated projects. Logistics services providers also increasingly pre-
sent their CSR activities in the form of reports available on the Internet (Table
3
).
One of the examples of companies which report all their CSR activities is DB
Schenker. It is a leading logistics service provider, promoting socially responsible
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