International Container Terminal Services

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised in stakeholder engagement activities, as well as its engagement process, and its stakeholder engagement covers nature and social issues.

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

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company is committed to restoring ecosystems. The company discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Water
The company reports the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company reports a decrease in water pollution and discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality.

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

Act ethically
The company maintains a publicly available policy statement prohibiting bribery and corruption, highlighting strict consequences for violations. It conducts periodic internal and external audits, alongside monthly reviews, to assess the effectiveness of its anti-corruption policies. Anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses are included in all contracts with business partners. Additionally, the company offers a whistleblowing channel, allowing stakeholders to report concerns about bribery and corruption anonymously, ensuring protection against retaliation and maintaining confidentiality.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement dedicated to respecting worker health and safety, disclosing data and placing expectations on business relationships. It commits to providing a safe and healthy workplace, complying with all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements, and continuously promoting a positive health and safety culture. It also investigates incidents, shares lessons learned, and communicates health and safety performance transparently. Managers are held accountable for health and safety goals and leadership.

Respect human rights
No leading practices were identified in the core social indicators area.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
No evidence found that the company has group wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. 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.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company lacks a commitment to ensure zero conversion and does not disclose any activities aimed at achieving conversion-free supply chains. Additionally, it does not have time-bound targets set for achieving conversion-free supply chains, nor does it disclose a commitment to minimize ecosystem conversion or any activities toward that goal.

GHG emissions
The company should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions as well as report progress against them. Crucially, the company needs to reduce its scope 1,2 and 3 emissions and its targets need to align 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 discloses an increase in 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 a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations. The company does not regularly report on water pollution metrics, nor targets to reduce water pollution. The company has an opportunity to publicly commit to the right to water and to provide its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

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
While the company has a policy on political engagement, it lacks a comprehensive approach to lobbying and does not explicitly prohibit political contributions. There is also no requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with the company’s lobbying and political engagement policy. The company has an opportunity to enhance transparency by disclosing its lobbying expenditures and establishing clear compliance requirements for its lobbyists.

Provide and promote decent work
The company discloses detailed health and safety data including fatalities and lost time injuries but lacks information on high-consequence injuries. It claims competitive compensation for employees but does not confirm if these wages ensure a decent standard of living nor sets targets for achieving living wages. Although it promotes gender equality in specific operational areas, there is no broad public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, nor disclosure of gender pay ratios across operations. The company has an opportunity to outline its monitoring processes for health and safety in business relationships, define living wage calculations, and establish clear, measurable goals for gender equality.

Respect human rights
The company’s commitment to supporting the principles of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights lacks the robustness of a formal policy approved by its highest governance body. It indicates respect for employees’ rights concerning freedom of association, collective bargaining, and prohibition of forced labour and discrimination, though its commitments are limited to aligning with local laws. The company also lacks a clear process for identifying human rights risks within its operations and through business relationships. It has an opportunity to formalise and strengthen its commitments to human rights, clearly articulate its processes for risk identification and impact assessment, and develop a transparent, global system to address its most salient human rights issues.