GEODIS boasts a robust yet agile organization built around its four lines of business – International Freight Forwarding and Supply Chain Optimization, Global Contract Logistics, European Road Network, and Last Mile and Express Delivery – and four key regions. The Group is now present in some 70 countries, operating a network that practically covers the entire planet. We have been encouraged by this success to focus on the future, and our strong ambition is to be a global operator, able to offer innovative, tailor-made, end-to-end logistics solutions to each of our customers, from large groups to small companies. This desire to continue our expansion through acknowledged expertise and know-how is reflected in our new strategic plan, Ambition 2027. Our growth strategy is built around our commitment to sustainability. The transport and logistics sector bears responsibility for 11% of the world’s CO2 emissions, so it must be decisive in its approach to its transition towards protection of the environment and the climate. In 2023, GEODIS is setting new, more ambitious targets to further accelerate its 2030 decarbonization trajectory, in compliance with the Paris Agreement. We are activating all possible levers: converting fleets of vehicles to low-carbon technologies, ensuring city-center deliveries in 40 French cities using 420 clean vehicles by 2024, and forming a partnership with an industrial vehicle manufacturer to develop a 16-tonne electric vehicle dedicated to urban logistics. Many other initiatives, involving the modal shift from road to rail, digitalizing our industry and optimizing our services, will be undertaken with all our partners to keep us on this virtuous path. However, we are aware that the vast majority of our greenhouse gas emissions stem from the activities of our subcontractors. Our drive for decarbonization therefore also involves carefully supporting each of them in their efforts to achieve more responsible performance. The ecological imperative is coupled with a duty to set an example: GEODIS must ensure that its own and its partners’ value chains and processes respect the environment, as well as human rights, health and safety, and the best international standards. Social progress is an essential part of our sustainability model. We are very committed to equal opportunity and believe that diversity and inclusion are key to performance. Today, 40% of our employees are women – in traditionally masculine professions – and we are comfortably on the way to achieving our target of having 25% women in Top Executive management positions by the end of 2023. We must continue and expand this effort at all levels of responsibility, in particular through the GEODIS Women’s Network, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary. More generally, we want to make it possible for every individual working for us, men and women alike, to have the means to achieve the career they want. Turning finally to Health and Safety, the resources that we have applied have enabled us to reduce the rate of work-related accidents by almost one-third in three years. We are confident that this positive trend will continue thanks to our training and operational excellence programs, essential to ensuring that every employee can work in the best possible conditions. As we embark on a new stage in the Group’s development, we have defined a purpose for GEODIS, intended to express loud and clear the identity, values and ambition that drive us: Serving people by delivering their goods all around the world with innovative, sustainable and ethical logistics. This short phrase conveys the desire to look to the future that unites us. Although there is still much work to be done to develop fully sustainable logistics, we know we can count on the unstinting commitment of GEODIS teams to carry out their various missions. We can all work together to fulfill this collective promise and move forward in the right direction. I would like to warmly thank all those who, day after day, through their persistence and their professionalism, have helped make our Group become more efficient, more responsible, and therefore closer to the aspirations of its customers. 05 2022 ACTIVITY AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORT > PROFILE AND AMBITION > CSR POLICY > ENVIRONMENT > SOCIAL > ETHICS > TABLE OF INDICATORS EDITORIAL
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