CitySprint News

CitySprint, the UK’s largest privately owned SameDay Courier business, will be taking part in the 2008 GreenFleet Capital Fuel Challenge on Thursday 31st July to defend its title as the Transport for London (TfL) Private Sector ‘Capital Fleet of the Year’.

The GreenFleet Capital Fuel Challenge, which is sponsored by Transport for London, provides a display of the latest innovations to reduce emissions and improve air quality and sees public and private sector fleets competing to demonstrate who’s the cleanest and greenest in and around London. 

This year the Capital Fuel Challenge will set off from Horse Guards Parade. Participants will need to plan the most efficient route around the 24 mile course through the streets of London, stopping off to register at four check points along the way. The aim is complete the route using minimum carbon emissions with the emphasis being on which fuels and vehicles are the most environmentally friendly, and offer the greatest economy.

The most efficient participants make it through to the GreenFleet Awards finals at Twickenham on the 25th September, where each organisation will present the reasons why they should win the prestigious TfL Capital Fleet of the Year Awards to an expert panel. The panel will then score each presentation, and the audience will get a chance to vote for which entry they think should win.

Last year CitySprint beat off stiff competition from Tesco.com and Green Tomatoes and was crowned the TfL Private Sector ‘Capital Fleet of the Year’ after winning the Capital Fuel Challenge and impressing judges with details of its environmental programme and ‘green’ fleet at the award finals.

This year CitySprint wants to defend its title and has entered two of it’s environmentally friendly vehicles into the challenge – the Vectrix electric motorbike and Smith Edison Electric Van. CitySprint is confident that the combination of its ‘green’ vehicles and their couriers superior knowledge of London will bring victory at the Capital Fuel Challenge and that major advances with its environmental programme will impress judges again at the award finals in September.

As the UK’s largest privately owned SameDay Courier business CitySprint recognises that the provision of its courier services have an impact on the environment and it has worked hard to implement a comprehensive environmental programme in order to minimise that impact.

As part of its environmental programme CitySprint continuously looks for new vehicle options and innovative solutions which are both environmentally friendly and commercially viable. CitySprint does not charge clients a premium for using green vehicle options and in many cases they are provided at a reduced cost. CitySprint’s environmentally friendly fleet includes pushbikes, CityTrikes (human powered vehicles), electric vehicles, Smart Cars and alternative fuel vehicles.

CitySprint has also taken its environmental programme one step further by developing an external programme which offers clients the opportunity to assess and reduce their own carbon footprint.

For further information about CitySprint’s environmental programme and slection of environmentally friendly vehicle options visit www.citysprint.co.uk