14 E U R O C A T E R S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y R E P O R T Climate COMBINED FREIGHT– reduces up to 70% of transport to departments for certain suppliers At Svensk Cater, we collaborate with other suppliers to reduce transport to the departments and shipping costs. This collaboration with suppliers helps to reduce transport to the departments by 50-70% for the roughly 20 suppliers involved in the collaboration. In concrete terms, this means that the departments receive one combined delivery from 20 suppliers each week by using the scheme – instead of 20 different suppliers making separate deliveries each week. In Sweden, we have decided this finan- cial year to increase the proportion of biodiesel (HVO) we use. We expect this proportion to increase even more in the coming years. In this financial year, there are nine departments at Svensk Cater that only refuel with biodiesel (HVO), and five departments that are in the transition phase and partially refuel with biodies- el (HVO). In Sweden, a political decision was made in 2023 to reduce the propor- tion of biofuel in ordinary diesel from 30.5% to just 6% to mitigate rising inflation in Sweden, which is a signifi- cant difference that unfortunately has a negative effect on our CO2 balance sheet this year. In Sweden, we currently have four hybrid vans that run the first kilo- metres on electricity before switching to diesel. Every month and year, we measure our driving efficiency – i.e. how many kilo- metres we get out of one litre of diesel. It is still slightly decreasing, which is why we will continue to focus our efforts on this area in the coming years. As a new initiative, we measure kilometres driven per kWh. We have driven 0.64 km per kWh this financial year. Also this financial year, 4% of our total kilometres in Denmark have been driven using electricity. Electric trucks have been implemented in operations throughout the year, and we expect that many more kilometres will be covered by electric trucks next year. We expect to significantly increase our kilometers driven on electricity next year compared to this year. Many more electric trucks on the road In autumn 2022, Dansk Cater was the first in the Danish foodservice industry to put three 100% electric trucks into operation. In 2022/23, 10 more trucks were added, and by the end of this financial year we reached a total of 43 electric trucks in the Group. Our ambition is to reach a total of 48 electric trucks by the end of 2024, and we are well on our way to achieving this goal. Today, we have a total of 35 electric trucks on Danish roads and eight electric trucks on Swedish roads. We are a large company and we own many trucks across both Dansk Cater and Svensk Cater. These 43 electric trucks represent about 8% of our truck fleet. The option of switching to electric trucks in our industry is a relatively new possibility and at the same time an expensive one, as an electric truck costs about 2.5 times the price of a die- sel truck, not counting the investment in charging equipment and electric capacity. However, this is a priority area that we are monitoring closely and where we expect both the technology and the usage possibilities to improve in the coming years.
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