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As part of the Energy Transition Innovation Talk organised by the eFuel Alliance Austria, LKW WALTER's Environmental Officer Bernhard Haidacher was invited for an interview. On the core topic of sustainable mobility, he talks about the importance of environmentally friendly transport solutions for the company and the role that climate-neutral fuels play in this.
LKW WALTER has been building a dense network of road, rail and ship connections since the early 1980s. This now extends across the whole of Europe. In 2024 alone, more than 595,000 full-load transports were shifted from road to combined transport - saving around 340,000 tonnes of CO2.
According to Haidacher, coordinating sustainable transport while taking into account all of our customers' requirements in terms of transit time, quality and costs is definitely a challenge. The complexity of combined transport therefore requires perfect coordination within the organisation.
In order to drive forward the reduction of CO2 emissions, LKW WALTER relies on green corridors - almost completely decarbonised solutions that reduce the CO2 footprint from the loading to the unloading point by at least 90%. We primarily use our intermodal transport network and combine this with emission-reducing solutions. We are currently focussing primarily on the alternative fuel HVO100.
The resilience of sustainable fuels is currently a major challenge, although the security of supply in Europe continues to increase. At present, it is still the case that petrol stations are not always supplied with HVO100 in all countries.
In Haidacher's view, eFuels could also play a role in the future - provided they are available throughout Europe via a dense network of refuelling stations, are offered at economically acceptable prices and are approved for classic diesel tractors, which is currently not the case. The wish for politicians would be to ensure that alternative fuels are promoted equally and that the focus is not only on the electrification of road freight transport.
