Global packaging manufacturer and distributor LC Packaging International joins the BICEPS Network to boost a sustainable shipping industry.
Waddinxveen, 29-3-2022 – LC Packaging International is joining forces to accelerate the transition in the global shipping sector towards more sustainability. This month, LC Packaging International has officially joined the BICEPS Network: a demand-driven global network that drives sustainable change in the shipping sector through the collaboration of shippers. BICEPS stands for “Boosting Initiatives for Collaborative Emission-reduction with the Power of Shippers”.
By establishing a global network with sufficient volume in the market it can exert influence and drive change. Moreover, through an active dialogue between supply and demand of shippers with carriers, chain partners and solutions providers, BICEPS Network aims to accelerate and scale up market innovations and sustainable initiatives by the power of demand. Specifically, the network aims to create impact on:
- Reduction of emissions of CO2, sulphur and black carbon,
- Decarbonization of shipping by clean fuels, port call optimization, energy-efficiency solutions, wind propulsion, etc.
- Impact on biodiversity of a.o. ballast water,
- End-of-life cycle programs for vessels.
Joining forces with peers
Next to LC Packaging, the collaboration of shippers includes shippers such as FrieslandCampina, Lamb Weston / Meijer, DSM, Almatis, Elkem, Farm Frites, Corbion and VION Food Group.
Walter Vermeer, Chairman of BICEPS Network: “We are delighted to welcome the global cargo-owner LC Packaging to join the BICEPS Network in our journey towards sustainable shipping. This is a clear mark of the further international expansion of global shippers leveraging forces for a better world”.
Abhishek Kumar, Supply Chain Manager at LC Packaging: “LC Packaging has set itself the goal to reduce its GHG emissions by 50% by 2030 in its value chain. This includes an emission reduction related to transportation, in particular sea freight. By joining the BICEPS Network, we can learn and join peers in lobbying towards more sustainable shipments, understand more on the sustainable developments in the shipping sector and make use of the BICEPS rating system to make more sustainable shipping choices.”
Boosting sustainable innovation in the shipping industry
To really make an impact, companies must join forces. Together, the shippers affiliated with the BICEPS Network represent an even more significant amount of shipping demand to give a boost to change in the right direction of decarbonisation of shipping. They use the power of demand via their global procurement processes to stimulate and reward ocean carriers to take action in the implementation of sustainability solutions. The BICEPS Network accelerates the dialogue between relevant actors in the chain to boost adoption of market-ready sustainable innovations in the shipping sector; acting
together in dialogue with the shipping sector on how to create sustainable improvements and boost innovations. All shippers will use the BICEPS Rating System in their procurement processes of their global ocean freight transports and use the actual sustainability performance of carriers as a factor in their allocation.
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About BICEPS NETWORK
The BICEPS Network is a network of global shippers (cargo owners) joining forces to accelerate the decarbonisation of ocean shipping.
· The shippers in the network team-up to organize the power of demand for sustainable improvements in ocean shipping. The BICEPS Network has developed a Rating System which ranks the ocean carriers on their sustainability performance. This Rating System supports decision making in the shippers’ global ocean freight procurement processes, for taking sustainability into account.
· The BICEPS Network aims to boost innovations in the shipping chain. By organizing an active dialogue between supply and demand, we stimulate and accelerate the scaling up of market-ready innovations and sustainable initiatives. The focus is on boosting the pilot to market uptake (showcases), which will contribute significantly to sustainable improvements in and by the shipping industry.
The network is an initiative by global shippers/cargo owners who collaborate in stimulating ocean carriers to move faster in adopting sustainable practices in their operations. The BICEPS Network is governed by a non-profit foundation with a board consisting of representatives (global supply chain & logistics managers) of the participating companies. For more information please visit: www.bicepsnetwork.org Or please contact E-mail: info@bicepsnetwork.org
About LC Packaging
LC Packaging is a family-owned company and international manufacturer and producer of flexible packaging solutions with a headquarters based in the Netherlands. LC Packaging has been active in the packaging industry since 1923 and has its own production facilities for FIBCs and corrugated board in Europe, Africa and Asia. With a turnover of 204 million euros in 2021 and 1,769 employees in sales, offices, warehouses and production facilities in 16 countries, it is LC Packaging’s goal to contribute to a world without waste. LC Packaging specialises in custom packaging products and packaging from stock to 30,000 customers in the industrial and agricultural industry worldwide. In 2021, LC Packaging was awarded an EcoVadis Platinum Medal for the second consecutive year, belonging to the top 1% of all 85,000 companies assessed with such a high CSR score. The company is particularly recognized or its efforts in labor practices and human rights, and sustainable procurement practices. www.lcpackaging.com
