Panalpina achieved its best year ever in terms of employee health and safety and received top ratings for its environmental and corporate social responsibility programs. The 2018 Sustainability Report demonstrates Panalpina’s strong commitment to sustainability, the health and safety of its people and the prosperity of the communities where it operates.
International logistics and freight forwarding company Panalpina has achieved an A- for climate change from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), highlighting the company’s position as a global leader for corporate action on climate and environmental protection.
Panalpina, the world’s fourth biggest ocean freight forwarder by transport volumes, and CMA CGM, one of the world’s leading shipping groups, have signed a sustainability agreement aimed at reducing their respective carbon emissions by 2025. As of 2020, newbuild LNG-powered mega-vessels with a capacity of 22,000 twenty-foot containers (TEUs) will help achieve the environmental goals.
During 2015, Panalpina continued its commitment to reducing its environmental impact, with a focus on greenhouse gas emissions. At the UN Climate Talks in Paris held in December 2015, it was announced that Panalpina was one of over 100 international companies and the only logistics company so far to commit to set reduction targets as part of the Science Based Targets Initiative.
A total of 45,000 square metres in Istanbul with state-of-the art warehousing located optimally for both air, sea, road and rail transports
Panalpina Singapore has launched new biodiesel trucks to serve its global customer L’Oréal Travel Retail Asia Pacific. By 2020, 100 percent of L’Oréal’s strategic suppliers will be participating in their supplier sustainability program, and Panalpina has reached this milestone ahead of schedule.
Many pharmaceutical companies require that Panalpina's business units that handle their products are certified according to Good Distribution Practice (GDP), a set of guidelines for the proper distribution of medicinal products for human use. Today, 70 Panalpina business units around the world are GDP-compliant. Out of these locations, 30 are GDP-certified and this number is on the increase.
Committed to high-quality service for its customers: Panalpina recently completed an audit by the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company SGS, that recommended it for certification to the new ISO 9001:2015 Quality standard as well as for recertification to ISO 14001:2015 Environment and OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety.
Panalpina hat heute ihren Nachhaltigkeitsbericht für das Jahr 2014 veröffentlicht. Darin werden die erzielten Fortschritte im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit und den dazugehörenden Programmen aufgezeigt. Panalpina hat ihren Energie-, Papier- und Wasserverbrauch sowie ihre Treibhausgasemissionen verringert. Der Bericht wurde gemäss den aktuellen Richtlinien der Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) erstellt.
