16 DSV Panalpina Corporate Responsibility Report 2020 Environment Innovation The world of logistics is changing, and today there are higher demands from businesses and consumers to the environmental performance of products and services they purchase. We embrace this change by innovating and improving our services and operations. Click to watch video Learn how renewable hydrogen is developed The thinking behind the renewable hydrogen project is the concept of Power-to-X, a term covering the transformation of power into new materials or fuels. We see great potential in Power-to-X technology and support exploring its promising possibilities. Innovation takes place on several levels at DSV Panalpina with developments on local, divisional, and global levels. Central to our efforts is the DSV Innovation Hub which is the home of several of our in-house research and development programmes. Renewable hydrogen In 2020, we joined forces with other leading Danish companies on an ambitious sustainable fuel project, aiming to convert wind energy into sustainable hydrogen for road, maritime and air transport. A key aspect of the project is to make sustainable fuels competitive with fossil fuels by scaling production to industrial size. The project entails setting up an electrolysis facility south of Copenhagen with a capacity of 1.3 GW by 2030. Using power from offshore wind, the plant will supply more than 250,000 tonnes of hydrogen-based fuels annually for busses, trucks, maritime vessels, and airplanes. Our role in the partnership is to assess the suitability of hydrogen fuel cell trucks for commercial use and to test it in our own supply chain. Through our collaboration with Cardiff University, we also contribute with analyses of, for example, traffic patterns, helping to ensure that the proposed plans will be truly viable and competitive for our customers and suppliers. Collaboration with Cardiff University We have a long-standing partnership with Cardiff University’s PARC Institute in the UK. The partnership aims to identify new ideas and produce top level research in the fields of logistics, manufacturing and inventory management. The collaboration provides us with access to top-level logistics experts, while we provide real-world data for projects. Published research articles from our colleagues linked to Cardiff University include ‘Value Creation Through Green Vehicle Routing’ and ‘Journey to the circular supply chain.’ To be published in the first quarter of 2021 is a white paper about the future impact of COVID-19 on supply chains. Recently, the institute and DSV also collaborated to produce 3D-printed visors for NHS staff in the UK in the fight against COVID-19. Learn more at: www.cardiff.ac.uk/parc
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