Mazda is working with logistics companies, dealers, and other automakers throughout Japan to reduce CO2 emissions during product shipment.
Total domestic transportation volume (including purchasing and supply of materials, parts and completed vehicles) was 448 million ton-kilograms. This represents a 30.9% reduction in transportation CO2 emissions per ton-kilogram compared with FY1990 levels, achieving the Company's target of 20% or more.
In 2010, Mazda expanded tracking capabilities for CO2 emissions from the shipment of finished vehicles and parts overseas.
Mazda is taking the following measures to provide customers in logistics with the volume they require, with the precise timing they expect, while reducing CO2 emissions.
In FY2009, while ensuring timely shipments, Mazda consolidated its nine logistics centers nationwide into seven locations with the aim of combining routes with low shipping volumes. This consolidation enabled the Company to improve loading efficiency in coastal cargo vessels and achieve shorter shipping distances, resulting in improved overall shipping efficiency and reduced CO2 emissions.
- *1In the "hub-and-spoke" system, distribution centers around the country(hubs) act as bases for delivering completed vehicles to dealerships (spokes).
- Logistics without distribution centers (Vanning in factory)
After manufacture of KD parts*2 is complete, they are packaged and loaded into containers at the same location, eliminating the need for shipment between production and packaging locations.
- Establishment of new supply bases for service parts in the Tokai region
In place of the old system of consolidating shipments by sending parts to Hiroshima, we set up a new supply base for efficient nationwide delivery operations.
- Expanded packaging and shipping operations at repair-use bumper production locations
By carrying out packaging and shipping operations near production centers, unnecessary shipping of bumpers can be eliminated.
- *2A manufacturing method wherein parts are exported to overseas manufacturing bases, where they are assembled onsite.
Mazda promotes the use of a system wherein trucks transporting production parts collect freight from several suppliers during the same run. This increases the load efficiency of delivery trucks and reduces the number of trucks that are needed. Deployment began in FY2003 in parts of Hiroshima Prefecture and in the Kyushu area, and was complete throughout Japan by FY2007.
Today, Mazda is looking at all purchasing and logistics processes, aiming for further efficiency improvements in the logistics chain.
- *3A method in which a single truck visits multiple suppliers to collect supplies. Named after truck routes in rural areas, which picked up milk from each farm.
Mazda is moving forward with a concerted modal shift in logistics, away from trucks and toward rail shipment using dedicated containers. Starting in FY2007, by combining the milk-run system for parts purchasing with rail shipment of repair parts, Mazda established a green logistics system between Hiroshima and the Tokai region. The Company also began using rail shipment of dedicated containers in both directions. These measures have contributed to reduced CO2 emissions.
