LOGISTICS PROCESSES
As our core business is Distribution, we seek to reduce the environmental impacts linked to the logistics processes throughout our value chain, minimising the consumption of raw materials and energy resources and reducing the amount of waste and emissions.
Through our backhauling programme, we collect empty pallets from our stores and suppliers during the return journeys. Between 2011 and 2020, we avoided 86.1 million km in journeys, the equivalent of 112 trips to the moon and back, and avoided the emission of 80 thousand tonnes of CO2e.
The fronthauling project implemented at Pingo Doce and Recheio has our suppliers stopping by the Group’s stores to deliver goods on their return route to their facilities after delivering products to our Distribution Centres. This helped shave off 94,329 km and avoided the emission of 83 tonnes of CO2e in 2020.
The fleet that supplies Pingo Doce and Recheio stores now has FrigoblockTM technology installed, which uses the vehicle’s engine power to keep cargo chilled, with an estimated reduction of 8 tonnes of CO2e per vehicle, per year.
At Ara, the project to transport non-palletised goods to optimise transport loads between our suppliers’ facilities and our Distribution Centres helped shave off 1,091,111 km in 2020, while avoiding the emission of 1,712 tonnes of CO2e.
Launched in 2019, Ara’s by-truck project shaved off 65,832 km and avoided the emission of 51 tonnes of CO2e in 2020 by using trailers to transport goods between the Distribution Centres in two regions and the farthest stores.
86% of goods transport vehicles in Portugal, 90% in Poland, and 50% in Colombia comply with the Euro V and/or Euro VI requirements defined by the European Union.