Speaker 1: You're listening to a Shears These podcast.
Speaker 2: You've had a really strong track. Lookt I guess on
Speaker 2: sustainability and you know, talking about it and being you know,
Speaker 2: reporting about what you're doing. I mean, yeah, there been
Speaker 2: any interesting surprises that have come out of that work
Speaker 2: for you? And what do you see the kind of
Speaker 2: key challenges for mainfreight in terms of that sustainability picture.
Speaker 1: Well, I think the interesting thing is that we haven't
Speaker 1: actually got on our soapbox and shouted about what we
Speaker 1: did from a sustainability point of view. If you look
Speaker 1: at what Bruce did in the early days, he was
Speaker 1: always recycling wooden palettes and plastick and the likes in
Speaker 1: each of the facilities. And then he found a water
Speaker 1: tank light which was an old milk tank lying on
Speaker 1: the side of the road and thought about recycling water
Speaker 1: off the roof. And today that's a big part of
Speaker 1: what we do with our new facilities. If you think
Speaker 1: about the new sites and Dannyong, the new site in Adelaide,
Speaker 1: the sort of eight to eighty five off grid for
Speaker 1: solar power and water, and the new sites in Dallas
Speaker 1: and Chicago are exactly the same. Mind you, the Texans
Speaker 1: thought that we were nuts putting solar on the roof
Speaker 1: when they're pointing to the ground saying that's where the
Speaker 1: gas is. But it's our view about what we can
Speaker 1: do and what we can control in terms of sustainability.
Speaker 1: And if we had had more companies, particularly here in
Speaker 1: New Zealand, that actually recycled the water off their roof,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have a problem with shortage of water during
Speaker 1: drought years. Anyway, for us, there's plenty of challenges. I mean,
Speaker 1: we are running electric vehicles around town in some of
Speaker 1: the major cities in New Zealand and Australia, but we
Speaker 1: can't get electric vehicles to run efficiently long haul. You know,
Speaker 1: we're still waiting on Tesla's long haul vehicle to operate
Speaker 1: in the States. I think we've had an order place
Speaker 1: now for three years. Still nothing on the horaz. We've
Speaker 1: got two electric trucks to what they call drage off
Speaker 1: the wholf in Long Beach. We've been waiting six months
Speaker 1: for it and it's just been for both of them
Speaker 1: and they've been delayed another month. So it's frustra that's
Speaker 1: frustrating for us because we would like to be more
Speaker 1: efficient in terms of sustainability across the supply chain for
Speaker 1: our customers. I think the other interesting thing is the
Speaker 1: legislation that's changing in Europe. If you are a company
Speaker 1: that owns or employees two hundred people or more, you
Speaker 1: have to report your emissions carbon emissions from next year on.
Speaker 1: It's a legal requirement. And therefore what we've done and
Speaker 1: what we've reporting is turning heads in terms of customers
Speaker 1: and looking to I suppose supply chain experts like ourselves
Speaker 1: who are taking sustainability seriously, so.
Speaker 2: It becomes a key selling point.
Speaker 1: You think there is absolutely no doubt. And in fact,
Speaker 1: a sales call we made in in New York a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago, we produced our sustainability report on paper,
Speaker 1: the most sustainable paper we can find, and place that
Speaker 1: on the table with the managing director of that business
Speaker 1: and he picked it up, flick through it and said,
Speaker 1: this is exactly what we're looking for. And one month
Speaker 1: later they've awarded the ocean freight out of Germany to
Speaker 1: US into the United States. So clearly it strikes accord
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