Corporate Responsibility

At TNT Express, we have a long-standing commitment both to protecting the environment, promoting social values and to conducting our operations with integrity and with respect for the interests of all our stakeholders.

Protecting the environment

As a transport company, we cannot ignore our impact on the environment

Drive Me challenge

National and regional competitions for our drivers and subcontractors help to promote fuel efficient driving, road safety and customer experience

Emergency response

We support the UN's World Food Programme in emergency situations, responding within 48 hours to provide specialist people, aircraft, warehousing, and more

Walk the World

On 29 May 2011, over 34,000 TNT employees all over the world participated in a sponsored walk to support the UN's World Food Programme

We seek to make a positive impact on society through our operations and relationships, through the voluntary contributions we make to the community and through our wider engagement with society.

We are also committed to making continuous improvements in the management of our environmental impacts and to working towards our longer-term goal of developing a sustainable business.

For up-to-date stories about our projects, see the blogs posted on corporateresponsibility.tnt.com

Evolution

TNT Express’ commitment to corporate responsibility formally began in 2002 with its innovative partnership with the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP). Moving the World lends TNT Express core skills, knowledge and resources to support WFP’s fight against world hunger.

For four years now, our corporate responsibility programmes have earned TNT super sector leadership positions and in 2010 we achieved sector leadership position in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. In signing the UN Global Compact, TNT supports the realisation of the UN millennium goals.

Moving Forward

Express is a strong, independent company that is focused on a long-term strategy of substantial, profitable and responsible growth. Our corporate responsibility strategy is closely aligned to our future business plans and needs. We are committed to maintaining our leadership role in corporate responsibility by building on our previous successes.

TNT Express will continue to adopt a holistic approach to corporate responsibility and managing its business, one that focuses on all of its key stakeholders.

Moving the world

World hunger remains a huge problem. It is not just a matter of food shortage, the difficulty is often in distribution: getting food to those in need at the right time.

TNT Express’ vast knowledge of distribution and supply chain management puts us in a unique position to help WFP feed the hungry. By sharing knowledge and skills, we help WFP to optimise its operations and save costs. Simply put, we help WFP do more. For us, this is something to be proud of, because every advance in efficiency saves peoples’ lives.

But Moving the World does not end there. We also give support in emergency situations, responding within 48 hours to provide specialist people, aircraft, warehousing, and more. This way WFP can respond more quickly and effectively to humanitarian crises. Since the start of the partnership in 2002, TNT has responded to 45 emergencies, in 2010 alone to Haiti twice, and Pakistan.

And we are pushing to keep hunger on the global agenda, by raising awareness and funds among Express employees as well as the general public. This is witnessed most prominently during the annual Walk the World events. Finally, we are building partnerships that will support WFP’s objectives in the long term, for instance with Fleet Forum in the area of road safety and with North Star Alliance for the well-being of truck drivers.

Since 2002, TNT has invested over €50 million in its partnership with WFP. Learn more about the projects we supported via the website created for the 10-year anniversy of the partnership.

Of course TNT benefits in terms of goodwill and publicity, not to mention the experience gained through working with WFP. However, our greatest reward is the satisfaction we get from seeing that our combined efforts are making a difference to the lives of hungry people.

Learn more about Moving the World activities.

Planet Me

Protecting the planet is an essential part of our Corporate Responsibility strategy. As a transport company, we cannot ignore our impact on the environment. Our business – transporting goods by trucks and airplane – makes us a key contributor to CO₂ emissions that harm our world. In fact, the transport sector as a whole accounts for ca 18% of global CO₂ emission output.

TNT has implemented an environmental programme that focuses on improving the carbon efficiency of our global operations, and engaging our employees through e.g. driver training. Our extended network of suppliers and subcontractors as well as governments and NGOs is joining us in our efforts.

Our ambition is to become the world’s first zero-emission transport company. Zero signifies where we want to be in the future: operating zero-emission buildings and depots, managing a fleet of zero-emission vehicles, improving our City Logistics operations, leasing only zero-emission company cars – ultimately, zero carbon output in everything we do.

The programme has three focus areas:
■    Measuring and monitoring our CO₂ performance
■    Improving the CO₂ efficiency of our core operational activities
■    Engaging our employees to adopt sustainable behaviour at all times

In 2010, Express published its target to improve the CO₂ efficiency index (CO₂ target) by 40% by 2020, compared to the 2007 baseline year.

Learn more about this programme

Page publication date: 14 September 2012 16:00 CET