Mars Logistics, one of the leading logistics companies in Turkey, which attaches importance to environmental, economic and social sustainability and works on these issues, has published its Corporate Sustainability Manifesto.
Mars Logistics, which integrates the understanding of sustainability into all the processes of the company, works in the fields of waste management, energy efficiency and reduction of CO₂ emissions. Hadımköy Logistics Center meets the energy needs of the facility with the Rooftop Solar Power Plant Project, and the landscaping and fire water needs with the Rainwater Harvesting Project. All vehicles in the fleet of Mars Logistics, which has one of the youngest and largest fleets in Turkey, consisting of 2700 self-owned vehicles, are made of environmentally friendly Euro 6 level. Mars Logistics, which carries out all its financial processes digitally with the Documentless Office Portal, prefers equipment and methods that will save energy in its warehouses, and uses paper pallets made of recycled paper instead of wooden pallets. All recyclable wastes are sent to recycling facilities, contributing to the recovery of waste.
With the wagon investment made at the beginning of 2022, Mars Logistics invested in rail transport, which is the mode of transport that produces the least emissions, and with this investment, it is the first company to export with its own wagons manufactured and registered in Turkey. Finally, Mars Logistics, which has implemented the Halkalı-Kolin intermodal line, will continue to invest in railway and intermodal transportation models and diversify its lines.
Mars Logistics, which attaches importance to the issue of social sustainability as well as environmental and economic sustainability activities, aims to improve education with the Smart Truck Smart Kids project, which was initiated in 2017 and where a village is determined every year and comes together with the primary school students studying in the schools in that village. and carries out projects on gender equality. Mars Logistics, which donates saplings to Aegean Forest Foundation and TEMA in order to prevent desertification of our country, reduce its carbon footprint, prevent global warming and increase oxygen resources, aims to provide social benefit with these projects.
Mars Logistics, which previously published the first Sustainability Report approved at the GRI C level in the Turkish logistics industry and wrote its second report at the GRI A+ level in the following year, is one of the top 10 companies in Turkey, and continues to work on its 2021 sustainability report.
The Corporate Sustainability Manifesto published by Mars Logistics is as follows:
1. We recognize all our knowledge that will enable humanity to have a better future and the exchange of this knowledge as our corporate value.
2. We believe that this common value created by us should be the result of our activities designed to be compatible with the environmental conditions of our world, which is our only home, and we are dedicated to achieving this corporate harmony.
3. While we provide our services to our customers and all our stakeholders, we care about reducing our emissions and water footprint arising from our activities, using our resources efficiently and protecting ecological elements at all points that we touch.
4. By observing human life and the professional development of our employees, we pay maximum attention and care for human rights and occupational health and safety rules, and we strive to protect all our stakeholders.
5. We place supporting climate action to prevent the changing climatic conditions of our world and protecting the diminishing resources and biodiversity at the center of our business approach. Based on our values and ethical rules, we conduct all our activities in accordance with this business approach and in a transparent, honest, fair and lawful way.
6. We obtain our energy from renewable resources, recover our waste into the circular economy through our cooperation, recycle rainwater, take measures to reduce our emissions and ensure the sustainability of our business models.
7. We value diversity, inclusion and unconditional equality in all aspects of our value chain, strengthen younger generations and promote equality and diversity in the workplace.
8. For a more livable world, we conduct our activities with strong cooperation in accordance with the decisions taken on global scale, framework agreements and joint development goals, and we work with passion to not leave anyone behind in a joint future.
9. As we, as Mars Logistics, conduct our operations, we care about new business and economy approach, governance, harmony with the planet and humanitarian issues and pay attention to supporting social benefits and welfare, common development and improvement.