DHL Express has signed a deal with Shell to utilise Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) for its aircraft at Brussels Airport.
The one-year deal includes the delivery of 25 kilotonnes of fuel to Brussels via a pipeline connected to the airport.
The SAF is produced in a fossil refinery by replacing fossil crude oil with renewable feedstocks and will be available for use by DHL Express customers when using the company’s GoGreen Plus service.
The SAF used is certified according to ISCC’s voluntary certification system, ISCC Plus, and is expected to reduce green house gases by 80 kilotonnes CO2 equivalent versus fossil jet-fuel.
Travis Cobb, executive vice president global network operations and aviation at DHL Express, said: “Our customers benefit from our continuously increasing SAF coverage across different regions, now including our investment in SAF at Brussels Airport.
“Beside efficiency improvements, SAF is currently the most important way to reduce GHG emissions in air transport. Customers can actively contribute to making their supply chains more sustainable by using our GoGreen Plus service based on SAF.”
DHL has set itself the goal of reducing all logistics-related emissions to net zero by 2050.
Last month, DHL Express and DHL Global Forwarding announced they are to use an extra 60m litres of SAF under a renewed contract with IAG Cargo.
The new contract covers 2024 and 2025 emissions and is the largest SAF agreement between an airline and a customer to date, say the partners.