Pacific International Lines

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

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

Invasive species
The company discloses that it is installing ballast water treatment on all its vessels to comply with the Ballast Water Management Convention, and that it aims to eliminate invasive marine species.

Solid and air pollution
The company demonstrates some activities related to plastic use reduction.

Water
The company reports efforts to decrease water pollution,

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

Act ethically
The company maintains a publicly available policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, articulated through an Anti-bribery and Corruption Policy that delineates responsibilities and guidelines for all staff. It enforces compliance with all relevant laws and expects the same from its suppliers, as outlined in the PIL Supplier Code of Conduct. This document specifies that suppliers must have a zero-tolerance approach to bribery and corruption, and serious violations could lead to termination of supplier relationships. Additionally, the company provides multiple channels including a website, phone, email, and postal address for employees and external parties to report concerns anonymously or with identification, ensuring protection against reprisals.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a policy publicly committing to the health and safety of workers, ensuring healthy and safe working conditions in compliance with national and international regulations. It expects its business relationships to provide clean, hygienic, and safe workplaces and mandates suppliers to implement control mechanisms, including the provision of personal protective equipment, robust risk assessments, incident investigations, and routine health and safety training.

Respect human rights
The company upholds a publicly accessible policy approved by its highest governance body, pledging respect for human rights and labour rights. This commitment is embedded in their Supplier Code of Conduct, expecting that these principles are adhered to throughout their supply chain.

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 does not disclose how it engages with stakeholders, nor the issues it raises during such activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company has set some targets, it does not disclose group-wide, time-bound 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 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
No evidence was found that the company identifies the activities that could lead to the introduction of IAS in its value chain.

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
No quantitative evidence was found of reductions in water withdrawal across the company’s own operations. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal across its own operations and report progress against the target, as well asreport the proportion of water withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company does not report its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. 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
The company assesses risks related to bribery and corruption but does not specify its identification processes for these risks in operations. Additionally, while stating a non-contributory stance on political engagements, it lacks transparent disclosures on lobbying expenditures and does not clarify third-party compliance with its lobbying policies. The company has an opportunity to articulate its process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and to fully disclose its political engagement and lobbying strategies.

Provide and promote decent work
The company reports work-related fatalities and injury rates but lacks disclosure on high-consequence injuries and the types of injuries. It indicates offering competitive remuneration but does not confirm if this meets living wage standards, nor does it show support for living wages among its business relationships. The company also lacks a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, with no women on its board of directors and no disclosed targets or data on gender equality. The company has an opportunity to enhance transparency by disclosing detailed injury types and work hours, clarifying its living wage determination and support, and developing a robust commitment to gender equality with specific targets.

Respect human rights
The company has committed to respecting fundamental human rights as per the ILO declaration, but clarity is lacking regarding its stance on collective bargaining and child labour in various contexts, adhering only to local laws. The policy expectations for its business relationships also follow a similar local law dependency, omitting explicit commitments to freedom of association. While the company engages in materiality assessments to identify sustainable topics, it falls short in establishing a robust process for human rights risk assessment in its operations and with suppliers. The company has an opportunity to define and disclose comprehensive human rights due diligence processes and a global action system to address, mitigate, or remedy its identified human rights issues effectively.