TruckandTrackAutumn2019

www.truckandtrack.com Autumn 2019 Truck and Track 13 BUSINESS NEWS Eco Performance Award Jury Chairman Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle (University of St.Gallen) and DKV CEO Marco van Kalleveen honoured this year’s winners of the Eco Performance Awards at the Transport Logistic trade fair in Munich. Among the established companies, Rigterink Logistik GmbH & Co. KG (category “medium-sized companies”) and the Coop Cooperative(category“largecompanies”)werethebigwinners. The prize in the “Startups” category was given to RYTLE GmbH. The company Holland Container Innovation Nederland B.V. is awarded the “Innovation Prize” which is awarded for the first time. In addition, the finalists – i.e. LKWWALTER Internationale Transportorganisation AG, swissconnect AG and notime AG – were also awarded a seal of quality for reaching the final round of the competition. Category “Medium-sized companies” - Rigterink convinces with conclusive overall concept The company Rigterink from Nordhorn convinced the expert jury with numerous measures regarding sustainability. These include the conversion to Euro 6, the use of e-trucks, hybrid trucks, long trucks, the introduction of a bonus system, the decentralisation of dispatching, the use of drones in the warehouse, the operation of photovoltaic systems and intelligent LED lighting in thewarehouse. Category “Large companies” - Coop relies on driving trucks in a closed water cycle The concept highlight of the Coop Cooperative based in Basel was a world first: Trucks run in a closed water cycle. The company acts as a “hydrogen enabler” for Switzerland and is committed to the development and utilisation of the corresponding (hydrogen) filling station infrastructure. It is also pursuing the vision of being CO-neutral by 2023. Category “Startups” - RYTLE convinces with standardized picking for freight bicycles The Bremen-based company RYTLE convinced with a holistic, innovative logistics solution for the last mile. The company is already active in 15 countries and offers freight bicycles for city logistics including standardized picking. Category “Innovation Award” - collapsible shipping containers fromHolland Container Innovation Delft-based (Netherlands) Holland Container Innovation was awarded a special prize for the development of the world’s first ISO and CSC-certified collapsible shipping container. The containers bring efficiency in the repositioning of empty containers and save costs and emissions. The application phase for the Eco Performance Award 2020 begins with the presentation of the Eco Performance Award 2019. As of now, applicants can submit their short application. Further information is available at www.eco-performance-award.de Eco Performance Award 2019: Best Eco Performers awarded at Transport Logistic 2019 Rigterink & Coop won in the categories “medium-sized companies” & “large companies” / RYTLE winner at “Startups” / Holland Container Innovation received “Innovation Prize“ Convinced the jury with a world novelty: Jörg Ackermann (Coop, 2nd from left) together with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle andMarco van Kalleveen The logistics provider Dachser is starting the construction of a newbranch inNeumünster in the far northof Germany. Dachser is building a transit terminal for industrial goods and food at Isarstrasse on the industrial estate south of Neumünster. This investment is worth some EUR 17.4 million. Construction is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2020. Around 30 employees will work in the new logistics centre. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on the grounds at Isarstrasse and attended by Dr. Olaf Tauras, Mayor of Neumünster, and Alexander Tonn, Managing Director European Logistics Germany, on August 7, 2019. Tonn is responsible for the German branches of the European Logistics business line (overland transport and contract logistics for industrial goods). Construction work on the 57,000-square-metre plot of land began at the beginning of September. The total area of the terminal is 6,700 square metres. Of this floor space, 5,000 square metres will handle industrial goods, with the remaining 1,700 square metres cooled and devoted to food transit. The facility will have 76 docking bays for the loading and unloading of trucks. An office building of 1,000 square metres will complement the terminal. “Neumünster will become another key terminal for Dachser in the far north of Germany. This new location will connect directly into our extensive European overland transport network,” Tonn says, adding that “the new construction complies with the latest standards and offers secure and sustainable jobs in logistics within the region.” Dachser’s new terminal in Neumünster will replace its long- standing partner, 17111 Transit Transport & Logistik. In the future, this site will serve almost the whole of Schleswig-Holstein, but for now the collaboration will continue until the Dachser branch has been completed. The new location has good transport connections, situated directly on the B205 highway with direct access to the A7 highway. Dachser is building in Neumünster (l-r) Jan-Ferdinand Lühmann, Operations Manager European Logistics Dachser Neumünster; Paul Bartram, BartramBau-Systeme; Alexander Tonn, Managing Director European Logistics Germany bei Dachser and Dr, Olaf Tauras, Mayor of Neumünster COMBINED TRUCK & TRAILER SOLUTIONS 01543 420 121 www. deker .co.uk