Posti's Green Freight service supports Kiilto’s environmental goals

Provider of chemical industry solutions Kiilto is our long-term partner. We handle freight deliveries in Kiilto’s cleanliness and hygiene business from their Raisio warehouse to customer companies across Finland.

We share ambitious environmental goals in our everyday operations. Early this year, Kiilto started using our Green Freight service, which helps the company reduce emissions and support their Promise to the Environment.

Kiilto personnel in from of Posti's freight truck

Fossil-free transportation with Green Freight service

Reducing emissions became an important theme when Kiilto conducted competitive tendering for its domestic freight deliveries in late 2024. Cooperation with Posti continued, and Kiilto started using our Green Freight service. With the help of it, the company can offer fossil-free deliveries to its customers – with either renewable fuels or fossil-free energy.

“We saw that Posti was the furthest along in reducing emissions. We started using the service for all Posti deliveries at Kiilto. However, the great thing about Green Freight is that the service is available on a per-delivery basis. That means a company can choose to only use it for some of their freight deliveries,” Kiilto transport planner Tuomas Vuorilehto says.

In the service, we earmark a section of our fossil-free transportation to Kiilto. Green Freight is based on the international Book & Claim model: the customer pays for fossil-free transportation, and we at Posti ensure that a corresponding amount of fossil-free transportation is produced in our network, based on an international allocation standard.

Together towards shared environmental goals

The Green Freight service is a great example of how big players like Posti and Kiilto can work together to meet their own and shared goals.

Kiilto wants to be the environmental leader in their field of business, and Kiilto’s Promise to the Environment guides all their operations. Kiilto for example strives to be carbon neutral in its own operations by 2028. Meanwhile, we at Posti have set an ambitious objective to operate fossil-free by 2030 and be on net-zero when it comes to our emissions by 2040.

“Promise to the Environment is one of the cornerstones of our culture, and that’s why the Green Freight service was a natural choice for us. We can track progress clearly from Posti’s reports. Already during the beginning of the year, the greenhouse emissions in Posti’s freight deliveries that were created during driving decreased by 90 percent, which is over our target,” says Kiilto logistics manager Annika Valenius.

The change also serves Kiilto’s customers and their environmental goals. “Customers are environmentally conscious when they choose us and are interested in our choices, as well,” Annika points out.

Smooth cooperation in freight deliveries

Kiilto has been satisfied with their cooperation with Posti. In addition to smooth everyday operations, they find it important that the new service allows both companies to pursue more sustainable business together.

“Cooperation works well, communication is transparent, and giving feedback works both ways. Reports make it easy to follow operations, they are clear and easy to read. Let’s continue working the same way!” Annika sums up.