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BREAKTHROUGH®FUEL2016 Sustainability Report
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Breakthrough®Fuel is a global transportation energy and information management firm,
working with the world’s leading shippers to reduce the cost, consumption, and emissions
in their supply chain.
© 2016 Breakthrough®Fuel, LLC / Proprietary and Confidential
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“Since our doors opened in 2004, we have partnered with the world’s leading supply chains to pursue mutual benefit in the energy and transportation marketplaces. From these early days, we have built our growth as a company – and as a partner – on an understanding of sustainable business principle as the path to true prosperity.”
In 2014, we formalized our commitment to sustainability with the creation of our Sustainability & Community Engagement Committee (SCEC). This cross-functional team brings our emissions reduction efforts together with our work to give back to our community, under an expansive definition of corporate sustainability. With the SCEC’s guidance, we have reduced the carbon intensity of our business while contributing hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to community causes that we believe in.
Beyond our business’s direct environmental impact, we also work across our client base to eliminate fuel consumption and emissions from their transportation footprint. Our team works tirelessly to keep our clients at the leading edge of efficiency in their reimbursement practices, and to optimize their use of more efficient modes of transportation. As you will see reported here, we are especially proud of our record of achievement converting clients’ freight to intermodal transport at a rate that far outpaces the industry. Together, we are working to create a stronger, low-carbon transportation and business environment for the future.
On behalf of the team at Breakthrough®Fuel, I want to thank you for taking time to learn more about our commitment to sustainability, broadly defined. We are proud of the work we are doing to support a more sustainable future, and are pleased to share this report with you.
CRAIG DICKMANCEO, Chief Innovation Officer
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CARBON FOOTPRINT BREAKDOWN
Team MemberCommute
44%Business Travel
29%Electricity20%
Natural Gas7%
In the spirit of transparency, Breakthrough®Fuel discloses its emissions and consumption metrics publicly, in order to draw attention to these crucial metrics and to work to reduce the emissions intensity of our operations in coming years.
FACT: Our emissions per team member decreased by 3 percent from 7.23 metric tons in 2015 to 7.00 in 2016 despite our office completing 130,000 more air miles than we did in 2015.
FACT: From 2015 to 2016 our water consumption fell by 7.4 percent. In the same time frame, our waste per team member decreased from 57.3 cubic ft per team member to 46.0 cubic ft per team member.
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INTERMODAL SHIPMENTS | 2012-2016
Breakthrough®Fuel managed fuel for more than 575,000 US intermodal shipments during 2016. This growth included new intermodal Fuel Recovery clients and, most importantly, demonstrated how those clients who have been with intermodal Fuel Recovery the longest continue to find mode conversion opportunities that lead to fuel savings and fewer emissions.
The chart below illustrates growth among the group of clients who have been with intermodal Fuel Recovery for the past five years. This group completed 18 percent more intermodal shipments in 2016 than they did in 2012, outpacing the U.S. market’s growth rate by 9 percentage points.
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BASE 100 INTERMODAL SHIPMENT GROWTH | 2012-2016
Clients on Fuel Recovery Since 2012 US Market
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Breakthrough® intermodal clients made over 575,000 intermodal shipments in 2016, accounting for 1 of every 25 intermodal containers in the country. Clients average intermodal shipments travel 120 percent of the routed miles of their truckload shipments, but consume just 55 percent of the gallons. That is to say, intermodal shipments represent a gallon and emission reduction of 45 percent when compared to truckload use on a lane, on average
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Clients MPG - All Modes Truckload MPG
CLIENT FUEL EFFICIENCY MIX | All Clients with Intermodal Programs
FACT: Breakthrough® clients took their fuel spend further by incorporating intermodal shipments into their network. Our intermodal clients traveled nearly an additional mile for each gallon of fuel consumed overall during 2016 by putting some of their freight on the rail. During 2016, clients who mixed truckload and intermodal shipping in their networks averaged a combined fuel efficiency of about 7.20 miles per gallon, while peers who used only trucking within their networks averaged a fuel efficiency of just 6.2 miles per gallon.
FACT: Client fuel efficiency improvements resulted in at least 6.7 percent fewer metric tons of CO2 emissions and helped clients avoid over 190,000 metric tons of CO2. That is the same amount of CO2 emitted by 1,200 class 8 trucks annually!
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COMMUNITY IN ACTIONWe believe in making good things happen. That starts right here in our local community of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Our support has positively affected 20 organizations, helping families, children’s education, the arts, and our environment. The Breakthrough®Fuel team is boldly dedicated to sharing our passion, our time, and our resources to enable our community to succeed. Check out a few of our highlights below!
BREAKTHROUGH® TEAM CHALLENGEOne of our most memorable events each year is the Client Product Team
Challenge. Our organization divides into teams for a friendly, yet competitive, event to purchase as many client products as possible. These food and
hygiene products are then donated to our local Downtown Green Bay food pantry. To date, we have donated over 16,000 products to those in need.
ST. NORBERT COLLEGE HONORS PLEDGEBreakthrough®Fuel is proud to support the St. Norbert College Honors Program, which transforms learning into action. This program promotes
and supports life-long learning, creative problem solving, critical thinking skills, original research and ethical leadership. Through our partnership,
Breakthrough was able to help send eight students to the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference.
UW - GREEN BAY IDEA SPOTWith a nod to vision, leadership, innovation and collaboration, the new
Breakthrough® Studio was unveiled at UW-Green Bay. This space will give students, faculty, staff and community members a place to come together to work collaboratively, to debate ideas, work through problems, and innovate.
GREATER GREEN BAY - HABITAT FOR HUMANITYOur Breakthrough®Fuel team was hard at work volunteering for the Greater
Green Bay Habitat for Humanity. We are proud to support this global nonprofit organization that builds homes, advocates for fair and just housing policies, and provides training, access, and resources for families in our local
community.
© 2016 Breakthrough®Fuel, LLC / Proprietary and Confidential