Environment
Transport
Offering our customers the right products in the right quantity at the right time and in the right place is crucial to our business. At the same time, transporting merchandise accounts for a significant part of H&M’s carbon dioxide emissions. We therefore face the challenge of satisfying our transport requirements with the minimum possible use of resources and the minimum possible emissions. We achieve this by working in partnership with environmentally aware transport companies, by combining air freight with rail freight and by optimising transport so to reduce fuel consumption and increase use of renewable fuels and cleaner energy solutions.
Since 2001, we evaluate our transport service providers on a variety of environmental factors in order to improve their environmental performance.
Our requirements are gradually becoming stricter. From January 2007, the following minimum requirements apply to road transport service providers.
- Road transport for H&M must be carried out with vehicles which meet the requirements of Euro 2 or US 94.
- All vehicles purchased must meet the requirements of Euro 4 or US 04.
- Diesel with maximum sulphur content of 500 ppm (0.050%) for USA and Canada and 350 ppm (0.035%) for other countries.
- Instructions to drivers on what fuel quality to use.
- At least 75 per cent of all drivers must have received theoretical and practical training on fuel-efficient driving, i.e. eco-driving.
- The transport company must have a policy banning idling for more than one minute.