ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2012
ENERGY AND EMISSIONS
SUPPLY CHAIN
Logitech continues the drive to optimize our transportation network requirements while reducing their impact on the environment where possible.
This approach has resulted in a marked increase in the use of ocean freight in place of air freight services to move certain finished goods from our manufacturing locations in Asia to our regional distribution centres close to our sales markets. The total weight of products transported by air on an annual basis has reduced by 43% from the period 2009 to 2012.
Logitech has also implemented intermodal transportation as part of our standard mode of transport. For inbound transportation to our two main distribution centers globally, we are using a combination of ocean and rail for the U.S. and ocean and barge in Europe.
In the U.S. we move our containers by ocean freight from China to
Long Beach on the U.S. west coast. From there, they are transported by rail to our U.S. distribution centre in the vicinity of Memphis in central U.S.
This reduces the amount of trucking kilometres by 8,700,000 km on an annual basis. In Europe, we move containers by ocean freight from China origin to Rotterdam, The Netherlands. From Rotterdam,
they are moved over inland waterways to an inland terminal, which is in the very near proximity of our distribution center. This reduces the amount of trucking kilometres by 450,000 km on an annual basis.
By shifting from the more carbon-intensive modes of transport of air and trucking to less-intensive modes, such as rail, container ships and waterways, Logitech is mitigating a considerable amount of CO2
emissions annually. Logitech aims to have a full analysis completed on the environmental impact of these transport decisions in next year s report.
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ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH & SAFETY REPORT 2012
TOTAL WEIGHT OF PRODUCTS TRANSPORTED BY AIR ANNUALLY
Total Products Transported by Air (Tonne)
5,000
4,500
4,000
