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22.11.2014
To analyze the options for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from Latvijas Pasts as a company with a resource-intensive car fleet, the company has attracted co-financing from the Climate Change Financial Instrument within an open tender and started testing a Nissan e-NV200 electric minivan to evaluate the efficiency of short-distance mail deliveries and cost effectiveness.
Every working day, Latvijas Pasts ensures deliveries among and between 621 post offices and 230 delivery points throughout Latvia. The company’s fleet currently consists of almost 300 cars with internal combustion engine, burning fossil fuels. This means that substantial financial resources are used for both fleet maintenance and fuel purchase, thus creating an impact on the environment.
Participation in the open tender on Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Transport Sector – Support for the Use of Electric Vehicles and Development of Charging Infrastructure for the projects financed from the Climate Change Financial Instrument is the first step of Latvijas Pasts towards the practical assessment of future prospects for the exchange of postal correspondence and mail deliveries in the most eco-friendly way. At the moment, given the technical capabilities of the particular electric minivan, testing takes place in regard to mail deliveries at relatively short distances. It is clear, however, that due to the development of the electric vehicle technology and charging infrastructure in the future, the use of environmentally friendly electric vehicles will become increasingly prevalent.
The Climate Change Financial Instrument is the state budget program of the Republic of Latvia, which aims to contribute to averting global climate change and adapting to the consequences of climate change, as well as to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Pictures of the electric minivan can be viewed here.
About SJSC Latvijas Pasts
Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with more than 4,000 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by TNS Latvia, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Gundega Vārpa,
Head of the External Communications Department
Phone: +371 67608505
E-mail: gundega.varpa@pasts.lv
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