DPD is making a multi-million dollar investment in green delivery. By 2025, the parcel delivery company wants to deliver in as many as 225 European cities with low emissions. To do so, it is sending seven thousand alternative vehicles on the road.
DPD is also deploying 3,600 charging points and 80 new city depots. In the Netherlands, the company will transport parcels with four hundred low-emission vehicles in thirty cities. This European turnaround involves an investment of 200 million euros.
Drop in emissions
The new alternative fleets include electric vehicles, smaller electric vehicles (Tripl and Paxter), natural gas vehicles, cargo bikes, bicycles and trolleys. Through eighty new city depots in centres of major cities such as Basel, Barcelona and Berlin, DPD aims to further reduce delivery distances. In these cities, the delivery company says it is reducing CO2 emissions by 89 per cent compared to 2020. Pollutant emissions are to fall by 80 per cent.
"As long as we are part of the climate problem with our services, we must also take our responsibility to play a part in the solution," said Eric Dietz, CEO DPD Netherlands.
Dutch cities
The first electric buses will hit the road in Amsterdam and Eindhoven early next year. By 2025, DPD Netherlands will deliver low-emission packages in the following cities: Almere, Alphen aan den Rijn, Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, Arnhem, Breda, Delft, The Hague, Dordrecht, Ede, Eindhoven, Emmen, Enschede, Groningen, Haarlem, Hoofddorp, Leeuwarden, Leiden, Maastricht, Naaldwijk, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, 's-Hertogenbosch, Tilburg, Utrecht, Venlo, Zaandam, Zoetermeer and Zwolle.
