Intersagunto Terminales is
committed to environmentally friendly logistics and receives the stamp of
registration in the Carbon Footprint Register
Intersagunto Terminales (IST),
the Alonso Group’s multi-purpose maritime terminal, has received the seal
certifying its registration in the Carbon Footprint Register of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment. The energy efficiency plan
being carried out at the Port of Sagunto facilities expects to achieve a
reduction in CO2 emissions of more than 30% by 2018.
Sagunto, october 2017.- Intersagunto Terminales aspires to become one of the
most efficient and environmentally friendly maritime terminals in the Spanish
Mediterranean Arc. To this end, since the beginning of its activities, it has
been implementing a series of measures aimed at reducing its carbon footprint
and optimizing energy consumption.
In addition to obtaining the ISO 50001 energy
efficiency certificate that guarantees its commitment to reducing CO2 emissions
per ton transported, the terminal operated by Alonso Group has recently
formalized its registration in the Carbon Footprint Register of the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment.
After evaluating a complete report on the actions
being carried out at Intersagunto Terminales to manage the measurement and
gradual reduction of carbon emissions, the Spanish Office of Climate Change has
decided positively to award the carbon footprint seal “calculo”.
A
further step towards energy saving
Obtaining this seal is important for several reasons.
First of all, it certifies an organization’s effort to detect and calculate
which processes throughout its activity consume energy, and what is the impact
this consumption has on the environment.
In this way, IST’s customers can know exactly what
carbon footprint the passage of their merchandise through their facilities
generates. Knowing this data not only allows them to become aware of the
environmental benefit of using infrastructures such as these with high energy
efficiency, but also to be able to add this figure to the total calculation of
emissions per TEU transported along the entire logistics chain.
On the other hand, having standardized measurement and
monitoring systems for energy consumption is the only effective way to apply
solutions that allow the progressive reduction of both consumption and CO2
emissions to the atmosphere.
Intersagunto anticipates the
future
In this sense, since Intersagunto Terminales began to
implement these energy efficiency measures in 2014, it has managed to
progressively reduce its annual CO2 footprint and hopes to surpass its initial
prediction of a 30% reduction in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by early
2018.
This continued effort to achieve excellence in the
field of energy efficiency is part of the Alonso Group’s global strategy to
offer its customers the greatest possible number of CO2-free logistics
services.
In this way, the company intends to adopt the most
demanding postulates of the European Commission at an environmental level and
to anticipate the new needs of the global logistics market, which increasingly
demands greater responsibility with regard to the environment from all the
actors involved.