Sustainability

The LNG Blue Corridors project aim is to establish LNG as a real alternative for medium and long distance transport, first as a complementary fuel and later as an adequate substitute for diesel. ADPO opened in 2014, supported by the European Commission and operated by Total Energies, the first LNG/CNG fuel station in Belgium. ADPO's transport company AFC operates a green transport fleet of dual fuel trucks that are powered by diesel and LNG, 100% LNG trucks and a large fleet of CNG vans. We will further invest in gas fueled vehicles to draft the path towards a climate-neutral European road transport system and will contribute to the acceleration of the necessary transition.

You can plant a tree in front of your terminal as say 'we offer green logistics'... But that would be too easy for ADPO that is a sustainable logistic trendsetter in the Antwerp Port with: solar panels, solar mirrors, LNG/CNG fuel, vapor incinerator, barge handling container quay, Marco Polo rail loading station, pipeline connections, think tank programs with our customers to sustainabilize their equipment and their supply chain,..

“If you want to begin to reduce your environmental footprint, the quickest way to start is to find those suppliers who’ve already reduced theirs”

Beside 4.000 classic solar photovoltaic solar panels that produce 10% of our yearly electricity consumption ADPO cooperated with Azteq for the construction in a CST (Concentrated Solar Thermal) energy platform. The construction and installation of this CST Platform of 1100 m² of solar water heaters delivers around 500MHWh of thermal heat in the form of steam at 10 bar pressure and will continue to do so for the next 20 years, without emissions. We can state that our customer storage tanks and iso tanks are heated with pure and emission free solar energy!

All our company cars are hybrid cars or full electric cars. ADPO has for many years a bike leasing program and promotes classic bikes and electric bikes as the ideal means of transport for the work-home transfers. We use electric fork lifts where possible. And our advantage is off course that all this electric equipment is powered by own produced green solar energy.

The energy transition is a pathway toward transformation of the global energy sector from fossil-based to zero-carbon by the second half of this century. The energy transition is a crucial enabler of sustainable development and climate resilience. Forward-looking actions will create new jobs, stimulate growth and harvest social and health benefits. ADPO's answer on this energy transition is fe. the construction and installation of this Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) platform of 1100 m² of solar mirrors that produces approx. 500MHWh of thermal energy and converts water directly into 10 bar steam that is further reduced to 4 bar process steam that is further used on the terminal. This installation will produce this energy for the next 20 years, without emissions.

To celebrate its 35 birthday ADPO planted together with its employees, their family and some local politicians its own company forest. This company forest of 1200 trees is a classic forest but also a food forest (fruit trees). This initiative contributes to the European climate neutral ambition in 2050. With this company forest, ADPO wants to create a social green environment and again underline its ambition towards climate neutral logistics.

ADPO builds, in cooperation with Zenobé Belgium, a large operational battery park on its ALP-warehouse site. Via hundreds of batteries in 5 containers ADPO has now the possibility to temporary store its surplus on green energy that was generated by 4000 solar panels. This will result in a storage of 5 times 1,2 megawatt or 6 megawatt that ADPO will smart recycle as follows:

- The feeding of electrical gear and equipment such as storage tank heat tracings when there is a shortage of green solar and wind energy.

- The overnight charging of electrical forklifts that replaced fuel powered forklifts. This will result in a saving of 500 tons of CO2 per year.

- Commercialising of this stored green energy via day-trading to balance the fluctuations on the national electricity grid.