A GREEN BUILDING WITH LEED GOLD CERTIFICATE AT THE AIRPORT

Tonguc: “DHL CEO Frank Appel said at a launch that the group has allocated USD 7bn for sustainability. Of course, some of that investment has been allocated to Turkey over the next 10 years. The building we built in Istanbul Airport is the most important of these investments with its LEED Gold certification, which is easy to get for small buildings but not for such a large one. You get points up to the carpet at the entrance. Our building is completely green. We could have lowered the investment to EUR 115m from EUR 135m if we did not go for this option. But we have a goal. We are also converting the cars for all of our sales team into hybrids as a first step. In the future, we want to switch our fleet to fully electric, depending on the developments in charging stations.