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 also reducing the amount of emissions and waste.
Through our backhauling programme, consisting of optimising delivery routes and maximising loads, during the return journeys we collect empty pallets from our stores and suppliers. Between 2011 and 2019, we collected around five million pallets, saving 68.3 million kilometres in journeys, the equivalent of 89 trips to the moon and back, and prevented the emission of 64.2 thousand tonnes of CO2e.
In 2019, Pingo Doce launched a fronthauling project that includes 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. 21,849 pallets were delivered to Pingo Doce stores, thus saving 71,783 km and avoiding the emission of 63 tonnes of CO2e.
In 2019, the by-truck project was implemented at Ara, which uses trailers to transport goods between the Distribution Centres and the farthest stores, saving 24,080 km and avoiding the emission of 19 tonnes of CO2e.
81% of the goods transport vehicles in Portugal, 95% in Poland and 32% in Colombia, comply with the Euro and/or Euro 6 requirements defined by the European Union.