IMPERIAL Logistics member company, IMPERIAL Cargo has won the Logistics Achiever Enviro Award 2011 for its ‘green’ national logistics hub in the Western Cape. Through this two year Greenfields project, the company designed and built a self-sufficient, green headquarters that has enabled clean, renewable energy usage at the site for the next 20 years.

“Clean energy solutions were used to design, engineer, install and commission a photovoltaic solar renewable green energy solutions to power the new headquarters, as an off grid project,” said IMPERIAL Cargo MD, Christo Theron. IMPERIAL Cargo has, at this point in time one of the largest photovoltaic installations in the province.

“The innovation that has been shown in bringing this self-sufficient logistics hub into reality has been exciting to be a part of. We have overcome all the challenges by taking lessons from our surrounding environment and harnessing our natural resources without wastage,” he said. “We have taken real costs out of our internal systems.”

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