October 27, 2021. Some of the transports of Tamro, Finland’s leading medicines and health and wellbeing products distributor and service provider, reach customers with the help of Gasum biogas. Since Tamro’s customers can be found across Finland from large cities and built-up areas to the smallest localities, many transport kilometers are clocked up each week. Logistics are a major factor in Tamro’s business from the climate impact perspective.
”When choosing our transport partners, we place great emphasis on how well the company’s responsibility work is aligned with our own and how it helps us to reach our sustainability goals. On top of this, the transport of medicines and health products is subject to strict legislative requirements, which in turn place many conditions on the fleet used in transport. This means that besides climate and environmental impacts, we also have to take into account transport fleet quality criteria,” says Katja Toivonen, Quality Manager at Tamro.
Use of biogas helps to reduce the lifecycle emissions by up to 90% of the fuels used in Tamro’s transports compared to conventional fuels. In addition, biogas produces no near emissions such as SoX and NoX or other particulates that are hazardous to health.
Tamro’s logistics partner PostNord has been taking care of demanding special transports in health products since back in 2019. “We aim to cut our emissions by 40% by 2025 compared to 2020 levels. In addition, we plan to switch to completely fossil-free fuels in the Greater Helsinki Region and the Tampere and Turku areas by 2025. The common goal across the PostNord Group is completely fossil-free transport services by 2030,” says Ilmo Strömberg, Climate Lead at PostNord.
