Berlin/Dresden, 22. January 2014. Online retailer KamDi24 relies on renewable energy generation from wood and the sun. The demand for sustainability applies not only to products, but also to transportation: the Rieck Logistics Group has been shipping fireplaces, stoves and accessories for four years – and is continuously reducingCO2 emissions per shipment.
KamDi24.de is an online store for heating technology and renewable energies. Whether hot water from solar thermal energy, heating support from pellet boilers or the traditional wood-burning stove – customers can choose from over 10,000 different items online or with telephone advice. In addition to the online store, there is also a salesroom in Dresden for individual advice on heating with wood, pellets and solar energy.
KamDi24 keeps more than 800 heating appliances and numerous accessories permanently in stock on around 2,500 square meters of warehouse space. An additional 400 fast-moving products from the online store are stored at the Rieck site in Dresden. This means that even deliveries within 24 hours are no problem. Rieck delivers around 8,000 consignments weighing around 2,000 tons to customers in Germany and Europe every year.
Measures for green logistics
Rieck relies on proven measures and innovative technologies to reduce fuel consumption andCO2 emissions. One of these is the use of new vehicles: they consume less diesel and produce fewer pollutants – partly because they are more economical and partly because of better catalytic converter and filter systems. Rieck regularly replaces its entire fleet of trucks so that no vehicle is more than five years old.
In the area of scheduling, intelligent freight forwarding software enables even better bundling of transports and capacity utilization. Drivers regularly take part in training courses on resource-saving driving, and modern fleet board technology allows driving behavior to be recorded and evaluated.
At the same time, the IDS general cargo network has developed a system together with the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Forwarding and Logistics, Heilbronn, which can be used to record and evaluate theCO2 emissions of all IDS partners – in 2013, theCO2 reduction was 6.2 percent. As a member of IDS, Rieck can determine the carbon footprint for each shipment. “Our aim is to reduce fuel consumption and emissions even further with this package of measures,” summarizes Lutz Franke, Branch Manager at Rieck’s Dresden site.