Moy Park ‘fuelling’ emissions reduction with 50 new natural gas trucks

Leading UK food company Moy Park has committed to mass decarbonisation of its transport operation with 50 Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) IVECA Stralis NP trucks – IVECO UK’s largest single order of gas trucks.

The new biogas trucks, run via a 5-year IVECO Capital ops lease, are expected to cover around 160,000kms a year each, which Moy Park estimates will offset around an impressive 5,600 tonnes of CO2 annually.

Gas fuels created through anaerobic digestion are collected for vehicle fuel while solids can be used as fertiliser for farms, locking carbon into earth and away from the atmosphere, helping to negate waste output and emissions.  IVECO believes this ‘circular economy’ methodology will open the door to negative greenhouse gases in vehicular transport.

“Moy Park’s in-house trials have demonstrated that vehicles running on biomethane reduced CO2 emissions by more than 80%. Following these extensive trials of alternative fuels and vehicle providers, we are investing in 50 LNG HGV trucks from IVECO”, said Hugh Nicholson, Moy Park’s Director of Logistics.

“This is a huge step forward in transitioning our own entire core fleet of 120 tractor units to gas by 2023, and we also plan to work with our third-party logistics partners in their CO2 reduction programmes as part of our overall Net Zero Carbon strategy.

“So much transport is on the roads by necessity, therefore road haulage is a key opportunity for us to reduce carbon emissions. Our transport team has been driving carbon reduction initiatives for a number of years, for example through increasing use of hi-capacity trailers. This delivery of LNG tractor units is a further step towards Net Zero of our logistics operations. Caring for the environment is embedded in our ethos and the logistics strategy feeds into our wider business sustainability commitments.”

Commenting on the delivery, IVECO’s Heavy Business-line Director, Gareth Lumsdaine said, “Over the past decade, Moy Park has worked exceptionally hard to make impressive progress in the decarbonisation of its business. We’re honoured that IVECO’s experience in sustainable transport solutions has been recognised in that our vehicles have been chosen to assist in the bid to meet some ambitious net-zero targets.”