BCTN Value Chain Footprint

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"In the Netherlands and European Union, the upcoming legislation will bring significant management challenges, and we quickly identified that we would benefit from getting prepared to the new game by the support of a management consultancy company. We selected i4b because they were the only company came up with a substantial approach and tool. With the help of i4b we have explored a new knowledge domain which we were completely unfamiliar. Now we have better understanding of the environmental impact of our service and its relative effectiveness to the competitor. We also have good ideas to increase our effectiveness and developed a strategy to turn our advantage to business benefit." Willem van den Heuvel, General Manager, BCTN.

We are moving towards a carbon-constrained world due to not only climate change but also world oil market developments. Limited resources, imminent legislation and shifting customer perceptions are main drivers of this inevitable change. Sustainable practice of the business has been an imperative for all industries and many companies concern how to convert this challenge into advantages. With SVS service of i4b what we do is to help our clients to achieve this. BCTN which is in container transport business by managing four container terminals in the Netherlands is one of the companies chosen i4b to find out new opportunities associated with upcoming carbon constrained world.

BCTN transports 350.000 tue (Twenty-foot equivalent unit) per year which constitutes 10 % of Dutch container transport. In terms of CO2 emission BCTN believed that their intermodal transport is more efficient than other single modes. However the quantification of this efficiency was a challenge for BCTN. In this regard BCTN asked to i4b to help to quantify its environmental impact in terms of green-house emissions. BCTN and i4b agreed to conduct a CO2 footprint of the BCTN critical value system. The objective of the project was decided as:

  • To quantify the green-house gas emission of BCTN activities and its value system
  • To compare the environmental impact of different modes used in the transportation of containers
  • To identify the risks and opportunities in the different parts of BCTN value system associated with impending regulations and legislation (such as road charging)
  • To draw a strategy to reduce these risks and seize these opportunities
  • To identify efficiency improvement opportunities in the value system of BCTN in cooperation with other stakeholders (customers, ports, government institutions)

At the end of the project the CO2 footprint of the BCTN value system is drawn and it has been identified that barge transport mode of its value system is substantially more efficient in terms of green-house emission than road transport mode. As a result of the scan to conduct the CO2 footprint many opportunities are discovered to reduce costs of BCTN and to increase the environmental performance of the company. BCTN and i4b is going on cooperation to follow up these opportunities and trying to start a program in collaboration with other parties to reduce environmental impact of the BCTN value system.