SSA Marine

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the ecosystems and biodiversity area.

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

Act ethically
The company maintains a whistleblowing channel, accessible via its Ethics Point webpage, enabling stakeholders to raise complaints without fear of reprisals. Reports can be submitted anonymously or with identification. The channel, established in the U.S. in February 2020, has since expanded to Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam, with plans for further expansion to Panama and New Zealand. This channel serves as an alternative for reporting illegal, unethical, or improper conduct when usual communication channels are ineffective or impractical. The company explicitly states that it does not tolerate retaliation against any employee who reports ethical concerns.

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.

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

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses a sustainability strategy, but does not disclose its process for identifying and prioritizing its most relevant sustainability impacts nor the outcomes of the process. It does not report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

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
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 does not disclose 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 lacks a publicly available policy statement explicitly prohibiting bribery and corruption. There is no described process for identifying specific bribery and corruption risks in its operations, nor are there anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in contracts with business relationships. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to transparently disclose its lobbying and political engagement approach, including the compliance requirements for third-party lobbyists.

Provide and promote decent work
The company promotes a safe work environment yet lacks a publicly available policy statement on worker health and safety and does not disclose quantitative data or how it monitors health and safety performance in its business relationships. The company undertook a compensation initiative in the U.S. but has not defined a living wage or disclosed efforts to ensure its payment across operations and relationships. Furthermore, despite developing DEI initiatives, there is no clear public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment, nor disclosure of specific targets. The company has an opportunity to formalise and disclose its policies on health and safety, living wage commitments, and gender equality, enhancing transparency and commitment across these areas.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement committing it to respecting human rights, including but not limited to fundamental human rights at work as declared by the International Labour Organization (ILO), within its operations and supply chain. The company can also describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including those of its suppliers. Furthermore, the company has the possibility to describe its method and results for determining its most salient human rights issues, considering factors like geographical, economic, and social aspects. Lastly, it has the chance to disclose a global system to act on its salient human rights issues, aiming to prevent, lessen, or remedy them.