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Freight Transport
Association President Andy Haines and Chief Executive Richard Turner
have unveiled the FTA's new green campaigning website
www.sustainabledistribution.com
The website aims to
support the campaigning activities of the FTA on environmental issues
including carbon footprint and sustainability. The website will feature
blogs from senior FTA staff, as well as examples of corporate social
responsibility by its members.
The website was
launched at FTA's summer reception, an event held in the Members Dining
Room, House of Commons, and attended by ministers, backbench MPs and
civil servants from the DfT, Treasury and DTI and other guests. The
event gave MPs the opportunity to raise and discuss questions regarding
freight transport and related issues with FTA personnel.
FTA's Strategic Policy
and Campaign Manager Jo Ingham said, 'We will be using the new website
to promote examples of how our members can improve their sustainability,
as well as cutting business costs at the same time. As an industry we
are coming under increasing pressure to explain what we are doing to
combat climate change whilst keeping the economy moving. The website
will do just that.
'It will also be a
fantastic tool to show politicians and other groups the success stories
of logistics and the supply chain. We expect to be putting resources for
schools and colleges on the site soon, as well as profiling members with
real success stories to tell.'
FTA President Andy
Haines, said, 'FTA events like this are an excellent way of showing
politicians and civil servants just what the freight industry is doing
to respond to climate change. We are taking our arguments to politicians
directly and explaining how the freight industry is not only delivering
the goods and services which we all use every day, but is carrying out
the job in an efficient, safe and increasingly environmentally
responsible way.'
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