COURAGEOUS GROWER
How DSV boosts performance by aggressively raising sustainability ambitions
Impact
Fearless act
Driving customer-centric innovations to lower its share of global emissions and strengthen market position.
Transportation is responsible for roughly 25 percent of global emissions, and the world’s third-largest global transport and logistics company, DSV, aims to lower that share. “We can play a role in DSV and do something about it,” CEO Jens Bjorn Andersen said publicly in 2022.
DSV joined the UN Global Compact initiative in 2009 and has aggressively raised its sustainability ambitions ever since, achieving a nine-fold increase in TSR since 2014. The company’s approach involves strengthening its global position through M&A, setting ambitious internal targets including a pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and continuously pursuing customer-centric, sustainable innovations.
Key to its strategy is its DSV innovation hub, which works with start-ups and experts to identify promising technologies, test them, and drive adoption. In 2021, the company launched Green Logistics to help customers reduce their CO₂ emissions through a set of sustainability solutions encompassing CO₂ reporting, green supply-chain design and optimization, sustainable fuel offerings across all modes of transport, and carbon offsetting.
33.2%
xTSR 2016–2021