Volvo Logistics puts its money where is mouth is - by running its trucks on rapeseed Biodiesel says Biglorryblog.

"If large, transport-intensive companies like us collaborate, we can produce a far greater effect. I think we are going to see more partnerships like this in the future," Åke Niklasson, President of Volvo Logistics tells Biglorryblog. And for the record Volvo Logistics has been challenged by its customers in the Volvo Group and Volvo Car Corporation to reduce the carbon content of transport to their plants by 20% by 2010. The use of environmentally-adapted fuel is one of many ways of realising this target - not least as Diesel Bio30 contains 30% of the renewable fuel RME (rape methyl ester).

"This inauguration is an important step towards this objective, as far as we are concerned," says Susanna Hambeson, Environmental Manager at Volvo Logistics. "Even if we are in the midst of a recession, we have to keep working for the things we regard as important. Volvo's corporate values of quality, environmental care and safety are always important."

Meanwhile BLB can reveal that Volvo Logistics is also a member of the Climate-neutral Freight Transportation (KNEG) joint project, together with the Swedish Road Administration, Chalmers University of Technology, Green Cargo and a large number of Swedish companies with environmental ambitions. Renewable fuels have the potential to reduce carbon emissions, but they all have their advantages and disadvantages.

And to read more about the Volvo Group's research into renewable fuels click through to this website at:

http://www.volvo.com/group/global/en-gb/responsibility/envdev/renewable_fuels/fuel_comparison/fuel_comparison.htm