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C O MPANY NE W S

Edmonton International Airport CHEP’s pallet pooling
and CargoAi win the 2022 system pioneer enters

Sustainability Awards Logistics Hall of Fame
AUSTRALIAN OLIVER Richter
THE TIACA Sustainability Awards, an annual programme run in (1920-2014), the vision and
partnership with CHAMP Cargosystems, is now in its third edition driving force behind CHEP’s closed
and recognise outstanding businesses and industry initiatives rental pool that allows companies
designed to make air cargo more sustainable. to share and reuse around 375
million pallets, crates and containers
Edmonton International Airport was selected as the winner of the in approximately 60 countries, has
2022 Air Cargo Sustainability Award – Corporate, for YEG’s Airport been recognised for pioneering the CHEP’s pallet pooling
City Sustainability Campus, which is a growing hub of transportation, circular and intrinsically sustainable system pioneer, Oliver
Richter.
cargo logistics, manufacturing, sustainability, technology use of pallets in the logistics industry.
development and tourism. It is an integrated ecosystem that spurs As a trade manager at CHEP’s parent company, Brambles,
collaboration and innovation while fostering the commercialisation of Richter discovered the potential of a closed rental pool for
emerging clean technologies. load carriers in the 1960s and successfully set up what is
considered as one of the most sustainable and efficient

CargoAI was selected as the winner of the Start-up/Small Business logistics models globally. Kai Derda, Country General

category of the 2022 Air Cargo Sustainability Awards. The winner was Manager of CHEP Germany, and Volker Sdunzig, Senior Vice-
selected by the audience at the Air Cargo Forum in Miami. CargoAi President of CHEP Central and Eastern Europe, received the
launched Cargo2ZERO, a suite of solutions for forwarders aimed award on behalf of both Richter and CHEP at a gala reception
at decarbonising the air cargo industry through the use of a CO at Berlin’s iconic KaDeWe department store. Founded in
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effi ciency score. 2003, the Logistics Hall of Fame recognises leading figures

who have made outstanding efforts to promote the further

AeroVect and Elite Champ Limited, the other finalists also development of logistics and supply chain management.
presented their unique solutions to the audience – AeroVect for
ground support equipment automation and Elite Champ Limited for Born in Sydney on 23 October 1920, Richter left school
its Air Cargo Vacuum Pallet. at a young age, pursuing instead accountancy studies at night
school. On joining Brambles in 1965, he was soon driven by a
“We congratulate Edmonton International Airport and CargoAi vision to wider replicate the Australian pallet ‘pooling’ system

for winning the fourth Air Cargo Sustainability Awards. The winners of the Commonwealth Handling Pool (CHEP). A joint venture
truly show a spirit of those who strive to do better not just for took that pallet pooling and leasing model first to the UK in

themselves, but to create a sustainable future for the industry and our the mid-70s, with the ensuing years of Richter’s career seeing
next generation,” says Steven Polmans, TIACA Chair. CHEP further expand into continental Europe, South Africa
and North America. On retiring from Brambles in 1992,
“We are delighted to congratulate CargoAi as well as Edmonton Richter had successfully served as CEO, Chairman and Deputy
International Airport. The Air Cargo Sustainability Awards have Chairman.

grown considerably this year. The strong entries show the evolution

and innovation throughout the industry and are a good sign of things Richter was at the heart of developing a system of
to come,” concludes Chris McDermott, CEO, CHAMP Cargosystems. • pallet control that became an industry standard and led to

more efficient movement of goods. For the first time, the

CHEP ‘share and reuse’ model allowed for pallets, crates and
containers to be made available for shared use, eliminating the
L O GI S T I CS NEWS and significantly reducing waste. Sixty years later, Richter’s
need for customers to invest in – or manage their own – stock

vision of a purely circular packaging and logistics model is at
the heart of CHEP’s collective ambition to achieve net-zero
targets in the transportation industry, making him not only a

30 NO V E MB E R/D E C E MB E R 2022 pallet pioneer but also a sustainability visionary. •
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