•Annual SAF supply agreement for delivery of 7.2 million liters for its regular cargo shipping services use starting in April 2025, marking the first such initiative for the international express industry in Asia
•Asia’s first SAF-powered regular cargo service for international express shipping and DHL’s first SAF purchase in Asia
•Saffaire Sky Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd, will produce SAF at its mass production facility in Japan and is scheduled to begin operations in 2025

This agreement marks a major contract for SAF produced in Japan by Saffaire Sky Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd. The company will produce SAF at its mass production facility, scheduled to begin operations in 2025. With this deal, DHL Express will secure a stable SAF supply and accelerate efforts to promote sustainable air cargo transport in Japan

DHL Express currently accepts SAF at airports around the world including Amsterdam Schiphol (Netherlands), Stockholm Arlanda Airport (Sweden), Brussels Airport (Belgium), East Midlands Airport (UK), Los Angeles International Airport (US), Leipzig Airport (Germany), Miami International Airport (US), San Francisco International Airport (US), and Stansted Airport (UK). The SAF fuel procured under this agreement will be delivered to Central Japan International Airport (Nagoya Airport), which will be the first airport to take SAF in Asia among more than 500 airports used in the DHL Express global network

Since 2022, DHL Express has been offering GoGreen Plus, which enables air cargo customers to reduce (in-set) their Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions using SAF. In addition to Cosmo Oil Marketing in Japan, DHL also procures SAF from agreements that DHL Express has concluded with BP in the UK and Neste in Finland in 2022, and with World Energy in the US in 2023