EccoFreight, Main Logistics Operator of Ebro Foods Group’s Rice Division Herba Ricemills Since 2015:
Ebro Foods Group recently published its annual report, a document which also addressed environmental aspects related to its business activity, featuring the logistics carbon footprint assessment and reduction services provided to the company by EccoFreight.
Since 2015, EccoFreight has been the main logistics service provider for Herba Ricemills, the rice division of the Ebro Foods Group, also providing customized carbon footprint assessment services aimed at tracking the emissions generated in the company’s logistics activity.
In the environmental section of the report, the Ebro Foods Group highlights EccoFreight’s EccoPrint tool, which has made it possible to carry out a scope 3 inventory of the company’s GHG emissions, providing a thorough assessment of all greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the entire transport process, from the factory of origin to the port of destination, and vice versa.
In 2018, EccoFreight operated 74% of the shipments of Ebro Foods’ Herba Ricemills rice division, with a total of 11,218 TEUs shipped and a total of 33,894 tonnes of equivalent CO2 tracked.
About Ebro Foods
Ebro Foods is the first food group in Spain, the first rice company in the world and the second producer of fresh and dry pasta worldwide. Through a network of 30 branch companies, the group operates in the main rice and pasta markets of Europe, North America and Southeast Asia, with a growing presence in third countries.
The main mission of Ebro Group is to research, manufacture and market high value-added foods that, in addition to satisfying people’s nutritional needs, improve their well-being and health, while providing a transparent, efficient and sustainable business model.
