Lafarge Egypt, a member of Holcim Group, collaborated with Ostool for Land Transportation, a subsidiary of Raya Holding for Financial Investments (RAYA), to convert all fleet trucks serving Lafarge to operate on natural gas, reducing carbon footprint and promoting sustainable development. The new collaboration comes with the two companies’ adoption of sustainable development goals, green initiatives and Egypt’s ‘Vision 2030’.
Furthermore, the conversion of the trucks to natural gas aims to booster green practices and reduce the carbon footprint of land transportation, which poses one of the main environmental challenges globally. The land transportation sector is responsible for 18% of the total emissions caused by human activity. Alternatively, converting to natural gas cuts CO2 emissions by 13%, making natural gas one of the safest and cleanest fuels with no harmful emissions, especially in the field of transportation and logistics.
Through previous partnerships, Ostool has been providing its trucks fleet of Silo and flatbed trucks for transporting cement to serve Lafarge’s factory in Ain Sokhna, Egypt.