On the road to zero emissions
A beacon among logistics companies

Anyone who is energy self-sufficient in a veritable energy crisis is on the winning side. That is exactly what the Ortenau region is striving for. Among others, the Ortenau economic development agency nectanet, the network of industry and politics in the region’s business community, is pooling efforts towards energy self-sufficiency with regular events under the title “nectanet Zero Emission”. Four committed partners are driving the energy self-sufficiency alliance forward: the District Office of the Ortenaukreis, the Ortenau Energy Agency, KEFF (Regional Efficiency Agency for Resource Efficiency) and nectanet itself.

Networks need opportunities to work on the network. And alliances need beacons to guide them. That is also why the Kehl-based company Klumpp + Müller, which is now consistently aligning itself with sustainability, hosted the latest event in the “nectanet Zero Emission” series. Kehl’s Lord Mayor Wolfram Britz put it this way to a large audience from politics, administration and business: “We need courage for the future to implement the issues that concern us all. The Port of Kehl is one of the >best places< for this in the Ortenau region.”

CEO Alexander Münscher explained that this ‘best place’ fulfils its attribute when a logistics company like Klumpp + Müller makes the most of the location in pursuit of the ‘zero emissions’ goal:

By now, Klumpp + Müller not only uses the low-emission logistics of inland vessels and the possibilities offered by its own 1,000-metre-long rail facility, but also the electric drives of its own trucks – and these are charged in a resource-efficient way thanks to its own photovoltaic system. A second container terminal in the Port of Kehl and a bulk cargo facility currently under construction round off the family company’s “green logistics” concept.
Dr Fabian Burggraf, Managing Director of Climate Partners Upper Rhine, demonstrated that industry does not have to travel the road towards “Zero Emission” alone: “We see ourselves as a partner to industry in the transformation and provide classic networking as well as real support, because as the Competence Centre for Resource Efficiency (KEFF+) Southern Upper Rhine, we are working on a decisive factor for a competitive, sustainable and future-oriented economy in the Southern Upper Rhine and at the business location of Europe.”