Imperial Logistics and Sasol South Africa have entered into an agreement to collaborate in exploring options and solutions for improving freight sustainability and efficiency in southern Africa. The two companies will also be assessing potential cross-border collaboration.
Reducing carbon footprint
Sasol aims to play a leading role in the co-creation and development of hydrogen ecosystems, which aims to decarbonise sectors such as transportation. This is done by using green hydrogen produced at its operations facilities leveraging existing process equipment and proprietary technology. Decarbonising heavy-duty long-haul trucking using fuel cell electric (FCE) trucks is an area of interest to both Sasol and Imperial.
Imperial, as one of Southern Africa’s biggest fleet operators seeking to do zero harm to people and the environment, plans to reduce its carbon footprint by exploring a range of alternative truck technologies.
Sasol’s expertise in hydrogen production and refuelling infrastructure combined with Imperial’s proficiency in fleet management, transport footprint and superior end-to-end supply chain solution capabilities, this partnership expects to deliver good results.
Greener supply chains
One of Imperial’s strategic pillars is integrating environmental, social and governance practices into business activities.
“We welcome the opportunity to work together with Sasol to develop viable and sustainable greener supply chain solutions that will not only benefit our clients and principals but the broader logistics and supply chain industry,” says Mohammed Akoojee, Imperial’s Group CEO.
Priscillah Mabelane, executive vice president of Sasol’s energy business, said that “green hydrogen can help tackle various critical energy challenges and is positioned for rapid global growth as the pathway of choice to decarbonise the transport sector.”