Hutchison Port

Lobbying
The company discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member for all geographies.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts in relation to its sustainability strategy.

GHG emissions
The company reduces its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions, and has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Act ethically
The company maintains a public policy against bribery and corruption, and mandates regular external and internal audits to oversee anti-fraud and anti-bribery controls. Each business unit must document both suspected and actual incidents to support risk assessments. The company enforces a supplier code of conduct requiring anti-corruption measures, reserving the right to terminate relationships with non-compliant suppliers. Additionally, it provides email and postal addresses for raising concerns, protecting those who report in good faith from reprisals. The company also explicitly states in its policy that it does not make political contributions.

Provide and promote decent work
The company maintains a publicly available policy statement that commits to respecting the health and safety of workers. It has achieved its gender diversity target by having 33.33% of its board members as women, exceeding the 30% goal set for 2030. This commitment to gender equality is further demonstrated by its policy of monitoring and supporting the payment of a living wage to its workers and throughout its business relationships.

Respect human rights
The Hutchison Port Trust Group has established a robust human rights policy, sanctioned by its highest governance body, focused on fundamental rights at work as outlined by the ILO. This includes firm stances against discrimination and harassment, detailed by their commitment to creating an inclusive and equal opportunity environment free from such issues across various protected statuses. They expressly forbid all forms of child labour and forced labour, while ensuring the right of employees to unionise and engage in collective bargaining without fear of reprisal. Their expectations extend to business partners and suppliers to adhere to similar human rights standards.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets, as well as potential misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, but does not disclose the frequency of said contact.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide targets on all key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain, nor does it report against all of its targets. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company has an opportunity to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions. The company has an opportunity to report progress against its emission targets and align them with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to work towards a circular economy or which organisms it exploits. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

Solid and air pollution
The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste. The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. It also does not report metrics on air pollutants, nor set time-bound targets to reduce them.

Water
The company reports an increase in water use. The company does not disclose other relevant information related to water, in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to make public statements on its approach to lobbying and political engagement and disclose its lobbying expenditures. It can also describe its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks.

Provide and promote decent work
The company reports detailed work-related injury data but lacks clarity on whether these represent the main types of injuries. It also does not disclose a strategy for ensuring or supporting living wages, nor does it clearly monitor the health and safety practices of its business relationships. While it has met its target for female director representation, there is no broad commitment to gender equality disclosed. The company has an opportunity to describe its process for ensuring and supporting living wages, expand its monitoring of health and safety practices among suppliers, and strengthen its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment across its operations.

Respect human rights
The company articulates a commitment to identifying and mitigating adverse human rights impacts, engaging with communities on critical issues like water and land rights, and conducting due diligence in its supply chain regarding modern slavery. However, it lacks a detailed description of the processes for identifying human rights risks in both its own operations and through its business relationships. While it has expressed a focus on employment practices and labour rights within its supply chains, monitored by external audits, there is no clear disclosure of its salient human rights risks or a transparent system for addressing these risks globally. The company has an opportunity to delineate its methods and outcomes for determining its most critical human rights issues and to develop a comprehensive, publicly shared strategy for addressing these risks.