AkzoNobel, DSM, FrieslandCampina and Huntsman

Press Release: Shippers join forces for more sustainable shipping in BICEPS-network (BICEPS-Boosting Initiatives for Collaborative Emission-reduction with the Power of
Shippers) BICEPS Network: Leveraging forces for a better world Five major companies have joined forces to help make shipping more
sustainable. AB InBev, AkzoNobel, DSM, FrieslandCampina and Huntsman
plan to develop a common and concurrent approach to sustainability in their
procurement of ocean freight and selection of carriers.
As well as sharing best practices, all the partners will take an active role in the
sustainability dialogue between shippers and carriers. The main focus of this joint
approach to more sustainable shipping will be to create momentum for further
improvements and drive more collaboration on sustainability initiatives in the shipping
sector.
All those involved share a common mission to create a better world and develop
plans – within their organizations and value chains – to contribute to a better future.
Sharing, learning and joint efforts will be key to maximizing and speeding up the
overall impact, especially within supply chain and logistics. The BICEPS network
partners represent a significant amount of shipping demand that can be used to
boost change in the right direction. In order to leverage their combined forces, the
five partners have chosen to work together with Pure Birds, a well-known catalyst for
creating sustainable impact, based on the power of demand.
FrieslandCampina, Walter Vermeer, Category Procurement Manager Logistics: “We
are doing this because we just want to boost the speed and adoption rate of proven
processes and technologies, to make the impact bigger and faster.”
The challenge for the shipping sector is to achieve a more sustainable and effective
shipping operation. The sector is facing a high emission of sulphur and CO2 (1 billion
ton of CO2 per year, comparable with the 6th nation of the world*). But the sector has
already taken some good initiatives and there are excellent examples of carriers who
realised significant CO2 reductions by implementing new processes and
technologies. The way forward for a step change is to leverage on these best
practices and adopt available clean technologies on a larger scale, with the
involvement of all the supply chain parties.
The companies of the BICEPS network will participate in this development by taking
steps within their shipping operations to adapt the selection procedures to reflect
actual carrier performance on sustainability and their engagement to impact
reduction.
Pure Birds, Coen Faber, Partner: “Creating demand by collaboration of shippers is a
powerful mechanism to speed up sustainable development and innovations in supply
chains. With the BICEPS network we aim to create a breakthrough in sustainable
shipping.”
As part of this approach, CO2 reduction targets will be defined based on a CO2
baseline, together with a uniform set of requirements for sustainability assessments
of suppliers and carriers within the shipping industry. This will streamline the efforts
of complying with the reporting requirements of shippers to carriers. Next to that, the
network partners will work together with the shipping sector to persuade other sector
partners to participate in the realisation of sustainable practices within the whole
sector (like incentive schemes by ports, adopting of clean technologies and re-usage
or recycling of end-of-life ships).
Other shippers are more than welcome to join, and to share best practices.
DSM, Kim van Neer, Global Category Manager Ocean and Airfreight: “At DSM
everything we do should make a meaningful contribution to a more sustainable world.
Therefore also within our procurement of ocean freight we have fully adopted green
tender principle, which means we screen all shipping lines based on sustainability
and rank them accordingly. Via the BICEPS network we hope we can further
leverage this concept to further boost sustainability initiatives in the shipping
industry.”
AB InBev, Gert van den Bossche, Global Director Logistics Sourcing: “This initiative
perfectly fits into our Dream to be the Best Beer Company Bringing People Together
For A Better World. Our international operations represent a major part of our
logistics footprint, and we want to run it in an even more sustainable fashion. By
working together with our BICEPS-partners, we set another important step towards
secure and greener logistics.”
Huntsman, Johan Wittekoek, Purchasing Manager Transport and Warehousing:
“Shipping is a critical part of our global business. Without it we cannot serve our
stakeholders’ interests in receiving raw materials and delivering high quality products
to our customers. We at Huntsman manage our operations to protect the
environment from any possible impacts and are pleased to collaborate with service
providers and industry partners to reduce the undesired impacts of marine logistics."
AkzoNobel, Eric Majoor, Head of Transport Purchasing EMEA: “Shipping is one of
the key focus areas of our global strategy of radical resource efficiency, which we call
Planet Possible. We’re working with customers and suppliers all over the world in
order to reduce our impact across the whole value chain, while also helping our
customers to make a positive influence on society. This partnership therefore
represents a valuable step towards improving the sustainability profile of a hugely
significant sector within the whole sphere of global logistics.”
FrieslandCampina, Walter Vermeer, Category Procurement Manager Logistics:
“FrieslandCampina is consciously working on impact reduction in every step in our
grass-to-glass supply chain to enable realization of climate neutral growth. Our
participation in the BICEPS-network is our means to also adding greener ocean
shipping into our scope.”
Pure Birds, Coen Faber, Partner: “As Pure Birds we initiate these connections of
collaborations in supply chains to create more sustainable change and innovations.
And in shipping is a need to develop this to realize more impact.
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About AB INBEV
AB InBev has built leading positions in the most important beer profit pools in the
world, through a combination of solid organic growth and selected, value-enhancing
acquisitions and combinations. Our dream is to be the Best Beer Company Bringing
People Together For a Better World. As a top five consumer goods company, we can
bring people together in ways that few others can. Together, we are united by a
dream to enrich the communities in which we live and work, always striving for a
Better World.
For more information please visit: www.ab-inbev.com
About: AKZO NOBEL
AkzoNobel is a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of
specialty chemicals. Calling on centuries of expertise, we supply industries and
consumers worldwide with innovative products and sustainable technologies
designed to meet the growing demands of our fast-changing planet. Headquartered
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we have approximately 46,000 people in around 80
countries, while our portfolio includes well-known brands such as Dulux, Sikkens,
International, Interpon and Eka. Consistently ranked as one of the leaders in the area
of sustainability, we are committed to making life more liveable and our cities more
human.
For more information please visit: www.akzonobel.com
About: DSM
Our purpose is to create brighter lives for people today and generations to come. We
connect our unique competences in Life Sciences and Materials Sciences to create
solutions that nourish, protect and improve performance.
For more information please visit: www.dsm.com
About: FRIESLANDCAMPINA
Every day Royal FrieslandCampina provides millions of consumers all over the world
with food that is rich in valuable nutrients. With annual revenue of 11.3 billion euro
FrieslandCampina is one of the world’s five largest dairy companies.
FrieslandCampina supplies consumer products such as dairy-based beverages,
infant nutrition, cheese and desserts in many European countries, in Asia and in
Africa. Products are also supplied to professional customers, including cream and
butter products to bakeries and catering companies. FrieslandCampina also supplies
ingredients and half-finished products to manufacturers of infant nutrition, the food
industry and the pharmaceutical sector around the world.
FrieslandCampina has offices in 32 countries and employs a total of about 22,000
people. FrieslandCampina’s products find their way to more than 100 countries. The
Company’s central office is in Amersfoort. FrieslandCampina’s activities are divided
into four market-oriented business groups: Consumer Products Europe, Middle East
& Africa; Consumer Products Asia; Cheese, Butter & Milkpowder and Ingredients.
The Company is fully owned by Zuivelcoöperatie FrieslandCampina U.A, with over
19,000 member dairy farmers in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium is one of the
world’s largest dairy cooperatives.
For more information please visit: www.frieslandcampina.com.
About: HUNTSMAN
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of
differentiated chemicals with 2014 revenues of approximately $13 billion including the
acquisition of Rockwood’s performance additives and TiO2 businesses. Our chemical
products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a
broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more
than 100 manufacturing and R&D facilities in more than 30 countries and employ
approximately 16,000 associates within our 5 distinct business divisions.
For more information about Huntsman, please visit: www.huntsman.com.
About: PURE BIRDS
Pure Birds has a mission to globally inspire and challenge businesses to realize
sustainable impact. This means that companies will contribute from their core
business in a better world. Pure Birds believes in the strength of the connection and
believes that everyone can make a difference. They build demand-driven sustainable
innovation networks – to create system change.
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NOTE for the editors
For more information and/or request for an interview. Please contact; Pure Birds,
Coen Faber: +31 (0)6-53414203, E-mail: coenfaber@purebirds.com