TRUCK&FLEET CONFERENCE UAE
ACHIEVING THE ALTERNATIVES
Hans Wising, sales director, Scania Middle East shares his insight into how users of heavy trucks can transform into truly sustainable fleets
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want to give an introduction into how Scania has seized upon sustainability, what we do, and hopefully, create some inspiration: the question is what can you do as a company and as users of of heavy trucks? Driving Scania’s shift into sustainability has become our purpose and part of our core strategy. Together, with our customers and partners, we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. We need to break away from the correlation between increasing demand for transport and the increase in carbon emissions, noise, congestion and accidents. 20 JULY 2021
We are investing a lot in finding sustainable solutions. And Scania also believes that sustainable solutions will be the new normal. This will be the case in the future. It may already be here today but it will be even more important in the future. Sustainability is not all about environment and safety and so on, it is also about economical sustainability. If the industry is going to be sustainable in the long run, it also has to make economic sense and we believe that this can be achieved. However, we cannot do this on our own. We need all of you. We need all of the different stakeholders in this. We are
We believe that sustainable solutions are the new normal”
trying to work with the buyers of transport services. We’re also trying to work with the operators, the transport companies, of course, as well as infrastructure partners, and governments and academia, and so on. Afterall, we need to look at the whole ecosystem of transport to make it sustainable. Another way to look at sustainability is to look at the product life cycle. This is a different perspective on it, but all along the value chain we have an impact on the environment, and we have an impact on people’s lives. In a way, it all starts with R&D (research and development). We spend about 650 meconstructionnews.com
