Fujitsu Extends Environmental Initiative With Membership in U.S. EPA SmartWay Transport Partnership
Monday, September 08, 2008 8:00 AM

Voluntary Effort to Lower Greenhouse Gases From Shipping Operations Adds to More Than a Decade of Sustainable Investment in Environmental Programs

SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 09/08/08 -- Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation has extended its broad environmental initiative by joining the SmartWay(SM) Transport Partnership http://www.epa.gov/smartway/transport/index.htm, a voluntary collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and organizations committed to significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution in their freight operations. As part of the SmartWay Transport Partnership, Fujitsu will work to improve the environmental performance of its freight operations in order to contribute to the partnership's goal to reduce 33 to 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide and up to 200,000 tons of nitrogen oxide per year by 2012.

As a SmartWay Transport partner, Fujitsu will:

--  Extend and promote SmartWay initiatives to other Fujitsu groups
--  Recruit non-SmartWay Transport partners into the partnership and
    continue to use partner carriers
--  Incorporate partnership status into the contract bidding process,
    giving preference to SmartWay Transport partners
--  Incorporate environmental clauses into shipping contracts
--  Develop employee awareness programs focused on SmartWay Transport
    Partnership strategies
    

The SmartWay Transport Partnership

Launched in February 2004, the SmartWay Transport Partnership aims to achieve fuel savings of up to 150 million barrels of fuel per year. The partnership brings together major freight shippers, trucking companies, railroads, logistics companies and trade/professional associations to pursue mutually beneficial efficiencies that result in emissions reductions and other environmental improvements, as well as cost savings to the companies. The partnership currently has over 750 Partners.

Select Fujitsu Environmental Programs and Accomplishments

--  For more than a decade, Fujitsu has had an environment policy
    http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/environment/policy/ designed to ensure
    a significant, sustainable investment in enterprise-wide initiatives, from
    reducing its carbon footprint, to eliminating lead and other harmful wastes
    from its supply chain and products, to broad recycling and reuse programs.
--  The Fujitsu Environmental Protection Program (EPP)
    http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/environment/program/ develops specific
    employee, facility, and manufacturing-based environmental programs.

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