Action to Environment

Action to Environment

As global warming and air pollution are both escalating, the logistics service industry is required to remove burdens on the natural environment by reducing the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and particulate matters (PMs), all of which are causes behind the phenomena.
Regarding environmental issues as another important challenge to tackle, the Keihin group created environmental policies in November 2003. In March 2004, five affiliates that provide trucking services were certified for doing green business (providing services that place lighter burdens on the natural environment than others). We received similar certification for warehousing services in January 2007 and as a corporate citizen, joined a national project, Team Minus 6 Percent, in April 2007. We have since been promoting efforts to keep global warming from growing any further.
Our group believes that providing logistics services welcomed and trusted by customers and working hard to conserve the earth’s natural environment as a global citizen are social responsibilities that enterprises should take to contribute to customers’ business activities and our society. Based on this awareness, we will continue to strive to preserve the natural environment and reduce burdens on it.

Environmental Policy

Philosophy

As a company that provides logistics services that are welcomed and trusted by customers, we work on environmental issues as a business challenge, and make efforts to protect the earth’s natural environment and reduce burdens on it.

Basic Policies

  • We comply with laws and regulations relating to the natural environment.
  • We strive to use resources and energy efficiently and provide environmentally friendly logistics services.
  • We endeavor to reduce burdens on the natural environment in our business activities across the board.
  • We formulate an environmental action plan and review it on a regular basis.
  • We make efforts to have all of our employees understand our environmental policies and raise environmental awareness among them.

November 11, 2003
Mitsunobu Sugiyama
President
THE KEIHIN CO.,LTD.

The Green Management Certification *

 At a time when global warming is accelerating, enterprises are demanded to do eco-friendly business as their social responsibility.
In the Keihin group, four subsidiaries engaged in trucking services obtained certificates for green business in March 2004.
They always do ecologically friendly business and comply with laws and regulations, striving to reduce emissions and improve fuel efficiency by promoting eco-friendly vehicle operations and refraining from engine idling, and introducing hybrid and low-PM vehicles.
In January 2007, we obtained a similar certificate for our warehousing services as well.
Our warehouses all endeavor to improve energy efficiency (reducing the amount of electricity and fuel that they use and introducing energy-saving equipment and facilities), dispose wastes appropriately and promote recycling. 

* The Green Management (business operations that places less burdens on the natural environment) Certificate system was launched in May 2003 in accordance with the platform for promoting green management, which had been established by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).
With the help of the ministry, the Foundation for Promoting Personal Mobility and Ecological Transportation is responsible for attestation and registration.
To obtain certificates, business operators are required to make certain levels of efforts in line with their respective Green Management Promotion Manuals.

Photovoltaic Power Generation

Daikoku-Wharf Distribution Center Outlining
* Daikoku-Wharf Distribution Center Outlining
Various Data are Indicated on the Monitor.
* Various Data are Indicated on the Monitor.

At the Daikoku-Wharf Distribution Center operated by KEIHIN, a photovoltaic power generation system went into operation in January 2009. Making use of energy from clean and inexhaustible sunlight, the system generates no carbon dioxide (CO2), which is believed to be a major cause of global warming. We intend to reduce the burden on the environment by lowering the amount of electricity that we purchase.

Placed on the rooftop of the distribution center, the photovoltaic system boasts a power generation capacity of 200 kilowatts. It is estimated to produce some 200,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, which could amount to approximately 10 percent of the electrical energy consumed at the distribution center. With the power generation system, we could curtail CO2 emissions by 87 tons a year, which is almost equivalent to the quantity of CO2 absorbed by 89 hectares of forests.

Capable of producing 200 kilowatts of electricity, the photovoltaic power generation system is relatively powerful among those now used at logistics facilities. In installation, we made effective use of the folded-plate roof of the Daikoku-Wharf Distribution Center. Located adjacent to the ocean, we also took several measures throughout the system to prevent damage from the salty sea air, such as the adoption of industrial solar cell modules that are resistant to heavy salt damage and salt-resistant filters for the air vents of outside cubicles. There is a 42-inch liquid crystal monitor in the lobby on the first floor of the Daikoku-Wharf Distribution Center outlining the photovoltaic power generation system. Various data are indicated on the monitor, such as the amount of electricity produced that day and the accumulated amount of electricity produced to date. In addition, some photographs are displayed showing a bird’s-eye view of the rooftop after the system was installed. A solar cell module, which is the same as those used in the system, is also exhibited. With these items, we introduce our power generation-related efforts to customers and visitors. The photovoltaic power generating system was adopted by “New Energy Foundation” as a subsidized project in 2008 (a project for conducting field tests on new energy technologies and new technologies for photovoltaic power generation).