Lineage Logistics Extends U.S. EPA SmartWay® Transport Partnership

Lineage Logistics, LLC (“Lineage” or the “Company”), the world’s largest and most progressive temperature-controlled industrial REIT and logistics options supplier, at the moment introduced it has renewed its participation within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) SmartWay Transport Partnership, a program that gives a framework to evaluate the environmental efficiency and vitality effectivity of products shifting by means of provide chains so partnering corporations can cut back their environmental footprint.

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Launched in 2004, the SmartWay program helps corporations advance provide chain sustainability by measuring, benchmarking and bettering freight transportation effectivity. Moreover, this system additionally helps corporations choose extra environment friendly freight carriers, transport modes, gear and operational methods to enhance provide chain sustainability.

“At Lineage, we recognize the opportunity our industry has in creating and advancing a more sustainable supply chain, and we look forward to working with the EPA and our Carrier Partners to further reduce our emissions and improve our energy efficiency,” stated Greg Bryan, EVP of Logistics at Lineage Logistics. “We are excited to lead the industry forward, and this partnership serves as yet another example of our ambition to be a better and more responsible company that aids in feeding the world.”

Lineage joins almost 4,000 SmartWay companions together with shippers, logistics corporations, vans, rail, barge and multimodal carriers. To date, SmartWay companions have contributed to substantial vitality financial savings together with 336 million barrels of oil – the equal to eliminating annual vitality utilization in over 21 million houses – and $44.8 billion on gasoline prices. The SmartWay program has additionally helped taking part corporations keep away from emitting 143 million metric tons of CO2, 2.7 million brief tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and 112,000 brief tons of particulate matter (PM).

Since 2015, Lineage has carried out bold initiatives to scale back the Company’s vitality consumption with quantifiable and impactful targets that align with its objective to remodel the meals provide chain to eradicate waste and assist feed the world. This partnership will assist the Company obtain its aim of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 – ten years forward of the Paris Agreement.

For details about the SmartWay Transport Partnership, please go to www.epa.gov/smartway.

About Lineage Logistics

Lineage Logistics is the world’s largest temperature-controlled industrial REIT and logistics options supplier. It has a worldwide community of over 400 strategically positioned services totaling over 2 billion cubic ft of capability, which spans 20 international locations throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Lineage’s industry-leading experience in end-to-end logistical options, its unmatched actual property community and the event and deployment of progressive expertise assist improve distribution effectivity, advance sustainability, decrease provide chain waste and, most significantly, as a Visionary Partner of Feeding America, assist feed the world. In recognition of the corporate’s main improvements and sustainability initiatives, Lineage was No. 17 within the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 checklist, the No 1. Data Science firm, and twenty third general, on Fast Company’s 2019 checklist of The World’s Most Innovative Companies, along with being included on Fortune’s Change The World checklist in 2020. Lineage is a 2022 U.S. Best Managed Company, a recognition by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal for personal corporations that reveal excellence in strategic planning and execution, company tradition and monetary outcomes. (www.lineagelogistics.com)

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