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TIJS REUMERMAN,
MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR POSTNL’S CROSS
BORDER SOLUTIONS

collaboration with partners, have found a way to utilize Hitting net zero a decade earlier
HVO100 for international road transport within Europe. This As a market leader with an extensive network across
marks a unique and substantial advancement in the logistics Europe, PostNL feels an urgent responsibility to contribute
sector. to a sustainable society. The company works every day to
improve its impact across its delivery chain, by switching
HVO100 in the European network to emission-free logistics and working with the market
Tijs Reumerman, Managing Director for PostNL’s Cross on circular economy solutions, among others. PostNL has
Border Solutions, reveals: “We were looking for an innovative further refined its climate strategy and submitted more
solution to use HVO100 and found it by setting a new ambitious carbon emission targets to the Science Based
standard, hoping that this initiative will inspire others. Going Targets initiative (SBTi). The company aims to achieve
forward, we’ll be buying as much in biofuels as we’d need virtually zero impact on the climate and environment by
to cover all our international road transport in Europe, and 2040, a decade ahead of established climate agreements.
this will be added to Europe’s diesel network from today. Through the expansion of sustainable fuel usage, it has
This solution reduces as much in the way of emissions as if taken another significant step towards realizing this
our trucks were able to run on HVO100 directly. It’s a major objective. ••
move that I’m immensely proud of. Working closely with
our customers, last-mile partners and the entire logistics
sector, we want to help make all of Europe’s Road transport
more sustainable – and this initiative enables us to set the
right example. All our customers directly benefit from these
reduced carbon emissions, at no extra costs.”

SOURCES:
1 Sources: International Transport Forum. (2015) The Carbon Footprint of Global Trade. https://www.itf-oecd.org/sites/default/files/docs/cop-pdf-06.pdf
Ritchie, H., (2020) Sector by sector: where do global greenhouse gas emissions come from? Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
2 Source: 2022 Dutch road statistics from cbs.nl multiplied by emission factors from CE Delft.

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