Logistics

Vehicles that transport deliveries to and from Daimler production plants also have an environmental impact. Daimler’s goal in this area is thus to minimize the emissions they produce by optimizing the logistics systems involved — and including rail and ship transport. In 2008, approximately 4.4 million tonnes (4.9 USton) of commodities related to production in Daimler’s German car and commercial vehicle plants, and at the Group’s facility in Vitoria, Spain, were transported by trucks over a total of 158 million km (98 million miles) (not counting door-to-door deliveries). Based on the current handbook on emission factors for road traffic (HBEFA 2.1), this translates into approximately 139,000 t (153,000 USton) of CO₂ emitted into the atmosphere, which corresponds to around 5 percent of the total CO₂ emissions generated through production activities at all plants receiving such deliveries.