Musti Group reaches their climate goals with renewable diesel Emissions reporting is demanded by all logistics partners Text: Anna Sand • Picture: Neste and Musti Group
Last year Scandic Trans introduced renewable diesel, HVO, as an alternative to all customers who are interested in lowering their transports’ effect on the environment. Higher and higher demands are put on both individuals and companies to lower their emissions and renewable fuels is a crucial factor for a sustainable logistics sector. Scandic Trans aspires to be at the forefront when it comes to the development within the industry. – We had been looking for an alternative that lowers our own carbon footprint for quite some time, and among other things we considered gas cars, when the initiative to adopt renewable diesel was taken by one of our drivers, CEO Mikael Löfqvist opens. A collaboration with Neste started and in the summer of 2020 the company was able to introduce Neste MY renewable diesel (HVO) as an alternative to all of the clients. The cost increase for using fossil free fuel is only 2-4 percent of the total shipment and does not require any investments in the vehicle fleet. – Neste MY renewable diesel, which is made only from waste and renewable raw material, leads to as much as 90 percent less emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2) compared to ordinary, fossil diesel, says Heidi Peltonen, manager of sustainable collaborations at Neste, the world’s biggest producer of renewable diesel. It can also be mixed with ordinary diesel – no investments and no modifications of the motors are needed – only a decision at the fuel pump, she adds. More and more clients appreciate, or even demand, proof of sustainable measures from their logistics partner, and together with the customers who have
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chosen to switch to renewable diesel for their transports, Scandic Trans has had a very positive impact. – It became evident that our customers were able to take advantage of the measures in their marketing, Löfqvist tells us. The willingness to pay for ”greener” transports has clearly increased during the past decade. According to the IPC Cross-border e-Commerce Shopping Survey as many as 47 percent wanted to have a carbon dioxide neutral delivery of products they order online already in 2018, and 62 percent of the Finnish transport companies are interested in lowering their emissions with renewable diesel. – By being among the first to offer our clients HVO we can show others the way, and in that way we can speed up the development. If nobody does anything, change is not possible, Löfqvist states. What choice the customers finally make has proved to be a generation issue and the personal attitude of the company leaders when it comes to climate issues are often what tips the scale. One of Scandic Trans’ clients who has chosen to switch to Neste MY renewable diesel for all transports is Musti Group. Musti Group is the Nordic countries’ leading pet ac-
