Instead of being dispatched from the production point to the decentralized warehouses of our sales offices, more and more goods are now sent directly to the customer. Several warehouses are therefore being phased out as dispatches are made directly to customers. As this restructuring is gradual, the target for 1995 has not been reached. However, we expect that we will be able to report a percentage increase in the number of direct shipments in the 1996 Environmental Report. Internal transportation in Denmark Novo Nordisk has 14 lorries and 65 leased haulage vehicles carrying internal dispatches within Denmark.
Most domestic transportation is carried out by the company's own lorries.
Biomass from the factory in Copenhagen is now also used as fertilizer instead of being piped to the Copenhagen waste water treatment plant. This new procedure also increases the transportation requirement between Copenhagen and Kalundborg. Some of the biomass used as agricultural fertilizer is transported via a pipeline out to the fields from the factory in Kalundborg. A centralized computer system registers the relatively small volumes of hazardous cargoes. A special service unit, the Hazardous Cargoes Office, and Novo Nordisk's transportation department ensure the necessary documentation for transports of hazardous cargoes.