On October 7, 2023, 27 of our employees and family volunteered to help preserve the environment by participating in bamboo thinning sponsored by the Japanese Bamboo Fan Club, the specified non-profit corporation, at the Kozukue Castle Site in Yokohama City. This was the first time in eight years since 2015 that bamboo thinning was conducted there, and the first time in four years since 2019 before the corona infection, making this the sixth time in total that bamboo thinning has been conducted. This year, CEO Mr. Tanimura himself participated in the event, which greatly boosted the morale of all participants.

Bamboo groves should be thinned regularly to prevent them from spreading into neighboring woods and killing plants and trees, having an adverse impact on the forest environment.
Regular maintenance is necessary to preserve the beauty of Japan's bamboo forests.

Under the guidance of skilled plantation workers, all the volunteers worked hard using saws to cut roots, shred at 3-meter intervals, cut branches, and perform other maintenance work while taking care of their own safety.

The cut bamboo will be transformed into more than 5,000 bamboo lanterns at the 20th Bamboo Lantern Festival to be held on November 4 in the Citizen's Forest.

Hankyu Hanshin Osaka Cargo Terminal (HOCT, Osaka-city), certified with the environmental management system standard ISO 14001, received award from the Mayor of Osaka for its achievements of longtime-continuous 3R-Activities (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) in October, 2020.

HOCT has been striving to do 3R in line with the ISO 14001 on a daily basis by all the members and will continue to engage in environment friendly activities to achieve sustainable society.

On November 2nd, 2019, a group of 25 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in bamboo thinning sponsored by NPO "Nihon no Take Fan Club (Japanese Bamboo Fan Club)" at the bamboo grove beside the Yokohama International Swimming pool.

In this year, we cut bamboo into 3 meters length to be able to reuse as bamboo fences.

The participants made a concerted effort to clean up the bamboo grove with hope of changing it into a fun place.
(This program is carried out as a part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On July 20, 2019, a group of 30 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in museum tour at Tokyo Metro Museum.
This year’s theme is "reduction of CO² emissions". The railway companies have been making efforts to reduce power consumption with various ideas, we learned the transport system to be in harmony with the global environment by experiencing hands-on train simulator.
(This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On December 16, 2018, 23 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in bamboo thinning at Seikatsu Club "Kaze no Mura" (Life Club "Wind Village") in Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture.

With the help of Seikatsu Club "Niji no Machi" (Life Club "Rainbow Town") and the Sakura Adventure Base of Seikatsu Club "Kaze no Mura" (both of which are social welfare corporations), the volunteers worked together to clean the grove. After the grove conservation, made "kadomatsu" (the New Year's decorative pine trees) using cut-over bamboos. (This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On August 4, 2018, a group of 24 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in museum tour at Tokyo Water Science Museum.

As the theme of this year is "water is essential for our lives", we learned the importance of environmental conservation by experiencing mysterious water from the view of science. (This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On October 1, 2017, a group of 21 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in bamboo thinning at “Rinyoku no Niwa (Forest Bathing Garden)” located in Yokohama International Swimming pool, a program sponsored by the specified non-profit corporation "Nihon no Take Fan Club (Japanese Bamboo Fan Club)."

After the series of work process like felling, pruning, carrying out and weeding, the dense bamboo grove was reborn beautifully. In this time, we also held a bamboo work class, and we enjoyed the conservation activity with feeling the charm of bamboo as a material. (This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On August 5, 2017, 28 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in plant tour at Minato Incineration Plant in Minato Ward, Tokyo Prefecture.

As the theme of this year is “Environmental Education”, we learned the process of garbage disposal and improved environmental consciousness through this tour. (This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On December 4, 2016, 26 volunteers made up of our employees and their families participated in bamboo thinning at Seikatsu Club "Kaze no Mura" (Life Club "Wind Village") in Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture.

With the help of Seikatsu Club "Niji no Machi" (Life Club "Rainbow Town") and the Sakura Adventure Base of Seikatsu Club "Kaze no Mura" (both of which are social welfare corporations) and with guidance from planting/thinning experts, the volunteers worked together to clean the grove and used thinned bamboo to build stilts, etc. while having fun conserving the environment. (This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

On October 3, 2015, a group of 21 volunteers made up of our employees participated in bamboo thinning at the nature conservation woods in the site of Kozukue Castle, a program sponsored by the specified non-profit corporation "Nihon no Take Fan Club (Japanese Bamboo Fan Club)." Bamboo groves should be thinned regularly to prevent them from spreading into neighboring woods and killing plants and trees, having an adverse impact on the forest environment.

With the guidance from planting/thinning experts, the volunteers used saws to thin the grove while paying attention to safety.

Thinned bamboos were used to build about 5,000 lanterns for the Bamboo Lantern Festival, which was held on October 24 in the nature conservation woods. (This program is part of the "Hankyu Hanshin Dreams and Communities of the Future Project.")

HOCT (located at Nanko-Higashi, Suminoe Ward, Osaka City), which is certified with the environmental management system standard ISO 14001, was recently recognized by the Osaka Municipal Government for its achievements in reducing and properly treating industrial waste.
HOCT is striving to reduce waste in line with the ISO 14001-based environmental management system. Specific measures include setting waste reduction targets, holding regular in-house workshops, segregating waste for disposal and recommending a switch to reusable lunch boxes. These company-wide efforts have been rewarded with the recognition they deserve.

In October 2014, the "Inbanuma Cleanup Hiking" was organized with the Narita Environmental Network to collect empty cans and trash while hiking through the northern part of Inbanuma, Narita.

Inbanuma supplies water to nearby farmlands, factories in the Keiyo industrial area and residents in Chiba, Narashino and Funabashi. The cleanup hiking also contributes to improving the living environment.

The day was fine and a total of 32 volunteers made up of our employees and their families hiked the area with local residents for cleanup, each of whom was provided with a valuable opportunity to recognize the importance of environmental conservation in the rich natural environment of Inbanuma.

Following a cleanup program in Amanohashidate in 2011, the Hankyu Hanshin Express Group participated in a 2012 winter program on the Arakawa River bank, with 26 employees volunteering for reed cutting and cleanup efforts. Reed cutting in winter contributes to producing thick reed fields in spring, purifying river water and conserving biodiversity. It also provided the participants with an opportunity to learn the importance of environmental conservation in Arakawa River and Tokyo Bay.

Hankyu Hanshin Express and Hankyu Hanshin Logipartners are striving to reduce CO² emissions by introducing modal shift and promoting environmentally friendly driving.

An example of modal shift is a change from an all-truck transportation method to one that involves using consolidated rail freight, to transport customs cleared goods from a port to a mid-point where the goods are transferred to trucks for delivery to factories in inland areas. Changes like this contribute to reductions in CO² emissions.

As part of our efforts to promote environmentally friendly driving, we commenced installation of devices to prevent engine idling in 2010. All trucks have now been fitted with these devices. We are aiming to improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO² emissions by the amount of CO² that 4,500 cedar trees absorb in a year.