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Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt\u2019s work towards the green future of freight has won him the 2019 Clean50 Award<\/h2>\n

Photo: Eric Beckwitt, Freightera CEO, at the Clean50 Awards ceremony with the other winners in the Manufacturing and Transportation category: Mario Plourde, CEO of Cascades, and Sarah Buckle, Director of Enterprise Risk and Sustainability at Translink. Clean50 CEO Gavin Pitchford presents the awards.<\/p>\n

Exciting news for our friends and customers. Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt\u2019s work towards the green future of freight has been honored by a prestigious 2019 Clean50 Award. The award was presented at the Clean50 Summit in Toronto on September 27, 2018.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Clean50 annually offers recognition to leaders in sustainability for their contributions over the prior two years. The award winners were selected from more than 600 nominees and competed in 16 categories including Manufacturing and Transportation, where Eric Beckwitt won the award along with Mario Plourde, CEO of Cascades, and Sarah Buckle, Director of Enterprise Risk & Sustainability at TransLink.<\/p>\n

\"Canada\u2019s<\/p>\n

Clean50 is one of the most important awards for corporate contribution to environmental sustainability in Canada. This means a lot to everyone at Freightera. Freightera\u2019s mission is to make freight easy, accessible and green.<\/p>\n

Learn more from the Freightera press release: Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt Receives Sustainability Award at Clean50 Summit in Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n

Read more about Freightera’s mission of making freight shipping as green as possible.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt\u2019s work towards the green future of freight has won him the 2019 Clean50 Award Photo: Eric Beckwitt, Freightera CEO, at the Clean50 Awards ceremony with the other winners in the Manufacturing and Transportation category: Mario Plourde, CEO of Cascades, and Sarah Buckle, Director of Enterprise Risk and Sustainability at Translink. Clean50 […]<\/p>\n

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