23 apr 2021 anni - (FRANCE) FRET21 - Bosch commitment with modal shift from road to rail

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By adopting the FRET21 scheme in 2020, Bosch is announcing a 15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from its transport. The modal shift from road to rail is its main lever for action. By working on our carbon footprint today, we are anticipating future demands," says Gabriel Schumacher, Logistics Director at BSH Appliances (Bosch, Siemens, Neff and Gaggenau brands). Eventually, companies will have to be accountable to their customers for their environmental impact. In order to act on the CO2 emissions of its transport, the logistics director began by measuring them. "Through FRET21, ADEME and AUTF provided us with the tools to evaluate the CO2 emissions of the transport of finished products from our factories to our customers, who are mainly in the retail sector," he explains. The teams identified five factories in Europe that could switch their flows to rail, to transport the products to a consolidation point located on the French-German border. There, whole trains are put together to head for the Tournan-en-Brie warehouse in France, which has been connected to the rail network since its construction. Today, the reception platform is 427 meters long and can accommodate up to 25 wagons," says Gabriel Schumacher, who has always believed in the virtues of rail logistics, even though its cost is still higher than that of road transport. To absorb these additional flows by rail, we have gradually increased the number of staff in the team that handles unloading. They work at night because passenger transport has priority on the network, and goods are transported at different times. This measure alone will reduce CO2 emissions by nearly 4,000 tons and the number of trucks on the road by 2,600, "in addition to the 7,000 we have already eliminated thanks to this mode of transport", since the first delivery by rail between Germany and France took place in January 2008. From three trains received each week, there will now be six. Modal shift accounts for more than 95% of Bosch's commitment to the FRET21 program of the EVE program. To take the environmental approach to its logical conclusion, another change has been made at the Tournan-en-Brie distribution platform: the local rail operator's locomotive, which carries full wagons into the warehouse and removes empty ones, was replaced by an electric locomotive at the beginning of January 2021.

http://fret21.eu/actu/bosch-choisit-toujours-de-prendre-le-train/

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