Sustainability
Solid partner for your ESG needs
The Gosselin Group has been operating since 1930, with a strong in-house structure across Europe in line with our mission. Therefore, we are ready to take action and have the necessary resources to do so. However, as we are devoted to our clients, we are agile in responding to their needs and committed to providing them with the best value for money.
Gosselin acknowledges that, given the complex value chain of its logistics and national and international moving activities, it belongs to one of the sectors that makes targeted action difficult. Despite these challenges, we too want to transition to sustainable and innovative mobility and logistics services. We are already taking the first steps to achieve this.
Being conscious and devoted
What does sustainability mean to us?
Consciousness is one of our key values – we consider both the economic and ecological aspects wherever possible and whenever our clients request it. As well as quick wins such as installing solar panels, greening the vehicle fleet, promoting cycling to work and reducing energy guzzlers, Gosselin is backing a thorough, integrated strategy.
We have undergone an ISO 14001 assessment. Since 2022, we have been ECOVADIS-certified. As of January 2023, our FAIM (FIDI accreditation) offices have had to cover sustainability topics in their submissions. We have an account with Open-Es. We listen to the needs of our clients and stakeholders and are ready to proactively fill any identified gaps.
Empowerment
Who is involved?
Gosselin aims to foster a motivated workforce, where everyone strives to achieve a limited number of goals with measurable impact. The ultimate way to convince stakeholders to contribute to positive change is to implement a transparent management system that incorporates the new strategy, both internally and externally. The sooner people follow our processes and the less crisis management is necessary, the more efficiently Gosselin can work.
For us, sustainability is an integrated effort at all levels of management and across all departments. A single "sustainability department" cannot drive organisational change without the support of all internal and external stakeholders. The Sustainability Focus Group includes relevant people from the HSE, Quality, HR, IT and Finance departments, as well as top management. We also consult with our employees – 85% of team members participated in the 'Sustainability in Moving' course, and we have collected data on their level of activity, among other things. These are just some of the projects that we are involved in.
What do we do?
Activities
What matters more than ever is continuous activity and smaller steps rather than big proclamations. We have progressed along the sustainability maturity curve, adopting a pragmatic approach to achieving real impact in a cost-efficient manner. As part of our double materiality assessment process, we have identified core sustainability-related projects:
Environmental projects
- Notabrownbox. – a movement to switch to reusable packaging materials. Besides Gosselin, we have partners across the globe joining our not-for-profit initiative.
- Carbon Calculator: We are working with FIDI, the moving association, to create a universal, standardised carbon calculator.
- Groupage: We promote and apply groupage solutions in accordance with the client's agreement, where possible, to reduce environmental impact (SEA containers, ROAD freight trucks and RAIL groupage).
- Innovated Gosselin Container Terminal: increased barge transport to and from the Port of Antwerp.
- New solar panels on our Antwerp Gosselin warehouses
- Newly built hub in Genk: green facility with onwards barge transport
- Discard and Donate programme (Belgium)
- Participation in the Antwerp ULEZ discussion.
- Earth Day: yearly grassroots participation
We have prepared two case studies about Gosselin's environmental achievements, which have also been published in the FIDI Focus and IAM Portal association journals.
Social activities
- Bicycle lease plan (Belgium)
- Reforestation (Czechia)
- Assisting Ukrainian refugees (Netherlands)
- Redistributing obtained household goods (UK)
- Blood Donation for a 6-year old kid with leukemia (Feb 2023)
- Social case Urlati - 4 kids abandoned by parents and raised by grandparents (Romania)
- Limpiamo Il Mondo – (Italy 2023)
- River clean-up (all locations)
- Collaboration with universities
- Offering international mobility and internships to employees
- Gosselin Academy is a growing body of knowledge and talent development for our people
Governance topics
- Employer of choice: life-long learning programme (Bridge); full HSE compliance; diversity policy; sports events; sustainability training incorporated into mandatory employee training.
- Signatory of the Declaration on the equal treatment of women and men in the transport sector.
- Creation of a human rights, diversity and inclusion policy in 2025, which will be incorporated into our Code of Business Ethics and Conduct.
- Supply chain management: partner and local contractor SLAs include sustainability clauses.
- Collaboration with EFRAG as part of their Road and Other Transportation working groups (2024–25).
- Certifications: We have decided to demonstrate our efforts through external party assurance. We hold an EcoVadis certificate (our best achievement to date is a silver medal awarded in 2022), as well as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification. The FIDI-FAIM certification also includes chapters on sustainability, and we were recognised as top performers in the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and the UK.
Road map
Action plan
In December 2024, we became the first moving company in history to introduce CO₂ offsets for private moves in Poland as a temporary measure, through a pilot project. This enabled our private customers to offset the CO2 emissions generated during their house move. Under no circumstances does this substitute real positive impact.
Our plan is to first establish a baseline of data in order to monitor progress in all areas of the ESG categories. Reporting lines have been set up. KPIs and targets with deadlines are being developed for all reportable topics of the ESRS. The Gosselin Group is improving its methodology with regard to the assessment of double materiality and the inventory of impacts, risks and opportunities.
In line with the forthcoming Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Group aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. While we can manage our own operations, we cannot achieve full decarbonisation of our value chain without the intensive involvement of clients and suppliers. All of this is also dependent on appropriate legislation being in place.
What have we done so far?
Gosselin mover to World cycling championship on rollers
23/01/2025
Gosselin receives the ‘Sportbedrijf’ label
18/10/2024
Sport overview 2024
22/10/2024