At our Surrey Distribution Center, we recently began a journey towards a cleaner, greener operation by conducting an electric shunt truck trial. As part of looking into adopting an electric shunt truck into our logistics fleet, we borrowed one to try out. “It is really exciting to do a trial with this emerging technology.  We were fortunate that Seaspan Ferries was able to lend us this unit for a trial,” says John Dumbovic, Manager of Transportation and Logistics who initiated this trial. “These EV shunt trucks do the same work using much less energy with minimal C02 emissions. This trial gives us a good understanding of the utility of these EVs and that they can operated in this industrial environment.” Seaspan Ferries, who are one of the first companies on the west coast to use electric shunt trucks, imported the trucks from Sweden.  Currently, Seaspan is in the trial phase of incorporating electric shunt trucks into their operations, having ordered two units.