A voluntary environmental policy

Since 2002, Geodis has defined the broad outlines of its environmental policy and created an Environment management to monitor this policy. While supporting its customers in managing the life cycle of their products, the Group adopted two major objectives: reduce consumption of natural resources (water, fuel), control and decrease pollutant emissions (CO2, toxic gases). Almost 1,200 drivers of Geodis BM, the Group's Full Truckloads subsidiary, followed an advanced training programme for reasonable and safe driving, which has already started to bear fruit as regards the reduction in fuel consumption. Geodis BM's Renault vehicles are also equipped with Infomax software that displays the major behavioural criteria for drivers and provides an analysis that enables an improvement in their driving and optimises fuel savings. Geodis BM has also restricted its truck-tractors to 82km per hour, which led to significant savings in fuel and also encouraged its drivers to be flexible, reasonable and respectful of the environment. The continuous renewal of the fleet of trucks enables the Group to meet the most recent standards (EURO 4 and EURO 5 emission standards) as regards pollutant emissions.

After having reduced harmful CO2 and NOx emissions by 2.5% between 2005 and 2006, the Group is continuing its efforts in this area. In Europe, community legislation is gradually being adopted by national legislation. This targets products such as batteries and storage cells, out of use vehicles, as well as electrical and electronic equipment. Since 2005, the WEEE directive has imposed new requirements on producers and distributors. These relate to selective collection, transport and processing waste, and recycling from reusable or recyclable waste. Geodis took an active part in taskforces dealing with this directive. The Group also continued with ISO 14001 certification approach at its various sites, concerning in particular waste management, water and soil quality and the control of risks. It is also a member of Fédérec (Fédération Française du Recyclage) and participates in various task groups set up on waste appreciation in France.

Tangible steps

Some of the many steps, which meet the environmental and social responsibility taken by the Group are as follows:

• Geodis offers merchandise transport plans, which are environmentally friendly and provide peace of mind for citizens. Today, it continues in this way with partners such as Ikea (certification approach), or Monoprix (trials for the delivery to Paris stores using vehicles powered by city natural gas). More generally, the choice of combined rail/road transport enabled Geodis BM to "save" 10 million kilometres of road and motorway journeys in 2006, which results in savings of 4 million litres of fuel.

• Geodis BM has also continued its approach of reviewing agencies dealing with chemicals to comply with the Safety & Quality Assessment System (SQAS) as regards safety, the environment and the quality of the transport of chemical products.

• As regards social responsibility, Geodis is faithful to the memory of Guy Crescent, the Chairman of Calberson from 1963 to 1985, who was a polio sufferer. The Group created the Guy Crescent Association Prize to reward a handicapped person yearly for his/her commitment to other people in spite of their handicap.

• Also, at the time of every edition of the Geodis League, the European internal football tournament, the Group supports a charitable organisation. Thus, the following organisations were helped: "Neuf de Coeur", "Gol de Letra" as well as "Collectif Remise en Jeu".