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Transport costs cut

11 November 2014

CHEP’s collaborative transportation programme in the UK & Ireland has removed over 900,000 miles of truck haulage. This equates to a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 1572t while delivering significant cost savings for its customers. To date, 13 manufacturers, 11 retailers and 9 logistics service providers are participating in the programme, with more set to follow.

Typically, a CHEP customer delivers products to a retailer on CHEP pallets, then returns with an empty truck. Under the collaborative transportation programme, upon completing such a delivery, the truck – managed by a third-party logistics service provider – collects empty pallets from a CHEP partner or collects quality-inspected pallets from the nearest CHEP plant for delivery to another CHEP customer. This process eliminates empty truck movements and reduces transportation costs.


 
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