Environmental guidelines

With our services we are helping to tackle many of the challenges facing the world today. Our guidelines are directed at bringing our activities ever more closely in line with the principles of sustainable development:

• Environmental protection is an integral part of our corporate strategy which aims to create long-term value. It is an important factor in the evaluation of all our activities.

• We measure our processes and services against the highest quality standards. Compliance with national and international environmental regulations constitutes the minimum standard for us. It is also the starting point for supplementary measures aimed at continually improving our environmental performance.

• As a corporate group, we advocate and support the dissemination of environmentally and socially exacting standards throughout the world.

• We consider our employees' commitment and active involvement to be an important platform for our efforts and a significant source of innovation. We seek to foster this through specific training and motivation.

• We study our typical transport and logistics processes, and work to improve them. To achieve this, we rely on modern technology and efficient logistics structures throughout the world.

• We evaluate our logistics products and services against a macroeconomic backdrop or within the context of entire value-added chains and their environmental relevance. In close cooperation with our customers and business partners, we aim to optimize them in environmental terms as well.

• We assess and evaluate our environmental performance on a regular and transparent basis. In case of a conflict of interest, these results are carefully considered in order to balance economic, social and environmental objectives.

• We detail our performance in regular, transparent environmental reports. In this context, we seek a dialogue with the public and an exchange of information and experience with other - both national and international - bodies.