Urgent Couriers Live And Breathe Sustainability

Urgent Couriers is a privately owned company founded in 1989 by Managing Director, Steve Bonnici. With more experience than any other leader in the point-to-point industry, Steve says the knowledge and passion of their team leads to continual innovation, seeing themselves as the vehicle for change in the courier industry. To this end, at Urgent Couriers they live and breathe sustainability and have done so since the late 1990s, using the environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability to guide their business decisions to ensure they don’t compromise the success of future generations with their actions today.

Urgent Couriers are New Zealand’s first carbon neutral courier service, having ascertained that a courier’s main impact is the emissions from their vehicle fleet. Urgent Couriers accept this responsibility and were the first transport company in New Zealand to become carbon neutral. The company is guided by the environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability to shape their business decisions to ensure they do not compromise the success of future generations with their actions today.

At this stage people may be wondering how a company whose operations involve burning fossil fuels can possibly claim to be carbon neutral. Urgent Couriers take the following steps every year to achieve certification in Landcare Research’s CarboNZero Cert TM programme. The first is by reducing their carbon footprint as much as possible by ensuring their contractors use low emission vehicles - now over 75% of the fleet, using smart GPS technology to improve fleet efficiency, developing and implementing an emissions reduction plan and using cycle couriers as much as possible.

The second is by measuring its emissions and having them audited by an independent auditor and thirdly by purchasing carbon credits to offset all remaining unavoidable emissions. By choosing Urgent Couriers customers can be assured that they are using the courier company with the lowest impact on the environment.

There are several other reasons to use Urgent Couriers, including faster delivery, faster pickups, smarter technology, faster personal service, faster and smarter proof of delivery and they are the courier company with a social conscience.

For further information on Urgent Couriers, please visit their website at http://www.urgentcouriers.co.nz  .