Davies Turner cuts garment haulage emissions by one-third
Davies Turner has improved the efficiency of some garment flows between Turkey and the UK by a third, in order to generate cost and environmental savings.
Chairman Philip Stephenson said the move was one of many the UK-based freight forwarder was making in response to increased pressure from customers, notably in the retail sector, to develop more eco-friendly logistics solutions.
“The fashion industry, prompted by consumer concern, is now looking for a greener supply chain,” he said.
“We see that as an opportunity, and fully intend to make our Turkish runs, some of the longest in our network, best practice examples of sensible green thinking.”
One obvious way of reducing the carbon impact of trailer movements was to increase payloads to optimise vehicle utilisation.
In that context, Davies Turner has worked with a major client to replace traditional rail hangings with string loading for lighter garments.
“Just by this simple act of re-engineering, we have increased each vehicle’s capacity by 40%, without a similar increase in fuel used to move it,” he said.
“This saves both costs and carbon emissions and means that two trailers can now be used instead of three, cutting transport activity by a third.”
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