Stora Enso currently promotes and reports on environmentally beneficial transport solutions, and in future social responsbility issues related to transport will also be addressed more systematically.

Stora Enso Transport and Distribution is responsible for co-ordinating the flows, storage and distribution of most of the Group’s products. The wood supply units are responsible for wood flows to mills.

Although the indirect environmental impacts of transportation fall outside the scope of Stora Enso’s reporting, Stora Enso Transport and Distribution requires transport suppliers to have basic environmental management systems, to provide data on environmental performance and to actively improve their environmental performance. Suppliers’ environmental management performance is also assessed through a special questionnaire.

Stora Enso Transport and Distribution has created a plan for integrating the Group CSR Principles into its operations, and the first phase of this plan is due to be completed in early 2005.