Women in Logistics (WIL)

Earlier, this year, ECTA launched its new Responsible Care charter 2030. This charter includes a new chapter about Diversity, Equality & Inclusion and strives to achieve a better male-female balance across the transport and logistics operations in Chemicals.

Jobs like truck drivers and warehouse operators are historically male-dominated functions leading to a gender gap. For example women represent less than 6% of the truck driver population in Europe.

The idea to launch “Women in Logistics” as a collaborative industry initiative was initiated by Dow’s supplier diversity strategy program and H.Essers commitment to diversity as a female-owned company.

At the start of 2024, the initiative received immediately  the full support of the ECTA board whereby several ECTA board members decided to join the new WIL board. As a further path forward, the WIL consortium counts on all ECTA members to join and drive this change helping to alleviate the driver shortage and enhance the gender diversity across all physical transport and logistics operations.

For more information visit https://www.women-in-logistics.eu

We also see that ECTA Members take actions to bring Women in Logistics on their table by creating internal initiatives. Read about one initiative here: HCB Magazin