How do the coffee beans get from Brazil to Hamburg? How does the T-shirt find its way from the factory in Cambodia to the Tchibo shop on Alexanderplatz? We are focussing on the topic of green logistics. Our goods often travel thousands of kilometres - an enormous potential for CO2 savings and environmental optimisation.

Our guests, Barbara Möbius and Peter Maltzahn, both logistics managers at Tchibo, give us an insight into the challenges and solutions to this complex issue. They explain how Tchibo is promoting sustainable transport solutions through the use of sea transport and trains powered by green electricity.

There is a huge need to decarbonise our logistics... At the same time, we don't have our own fleet, so we don't have direct access to the vehicles and can only ever do this indirectly through our demand. We never tire of asking for more sustainable alternatives in order to set the spark so that we can decarbonise our transport in the short, medium or long term. - Barbara Möbius

Although Tchibo does not have its own means of transport, we exert a strong influence on our partners and service providers in order to minimise the environmental impact of our logistics. One example of this is a train that runs three times a week from Bremen to Hof and on to Cheb to supply our logistics centres. This train, powered by green electricity, transports almost fifty 40-foot containers!

We also take a look at innovative approaches such as the use of hydrogenated vegetable oil as a fuel and the importance of e-mobility for the last leg of the journey to the customer. Immerse yourself with us in the exciting world of green logistics and find out how we at Tchibo are working to make our transport more environmentally friendly.

We take the Tchibo train from Bremen to Hof and on to Cheb because we serve two distribution centres from there. We do that three times a week and the whole thing is now powered by green electricity, so we're on a good level there. - Peter Maltzahn