Innovate Holdings showed its commitment to environmentally friendly transport and logistics last week when it opened the green-est office building in the country. Managing director Stephen Dargavel said at the unveiling of the Leeds site: "We have a commitment to be able to deliver a carbon-neutral and better supply chain solution to customers within five years.
"This will require huge effort, it is one thing to have a carbon-zero or planet-positive building, it is quite another to have
a truck that can do the same trick. A lot of work will go into this, but we are a determined business." He says Innovate, owned by Icelandic firm Eimskip, is increasingly a supply chain provider, with cold stores at ports around the world. And while it has a very large truck fleet, it now moves some 30% of goods by rail.
Dargavel says the business is driven by supermarkets, which reflect public opinion in wanting to be environmentally friendly. "This puts a huge responsibility on us to develop a really robust, sustainable solution," he says. "They [the supermarkets] are taking quite an aggressive stance on how we conduct our business we are determined to be at the forefront."
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