Starting tomorrow: Our independent reviews of the environmental coverage by the twelve largest liners in the world
Picture: Jan Hoffmann.
Coming tomorrow! We will start our independent reviews of the environmental coverage in the sustainability reports of the twelve largest container carrier companies in the world: A.P. Moller - Maersk, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, COSCO SHIPPING Lines, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd AG, Ocean Network Express, EVERGREEN LINE, HMM, Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp., ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, Pacific International Lines (PTE) Ltd, and Wan Hai Lines. These twelve companies encompass about 85% of the total world container trade.
We will assess the quality of their environmental reporting presented in their sustainability reports; we will not look at other areas such as human resources or governance, since those are not areas of our expertise. We will score them at the scale from 1 (very poor) to 5 (excellent) stars. We will present our findings, starting with the lowest-rated report until we reach the report which we consider the best. Stay tuned!
Note: We will appraise the quality of the companies’ environmental reporting, not the environmental quality of their fleet and operations since that would be a much more demanding endeavor, something to be carried by a large team of experts of a classification society.
Gliese Foundation, September 2020.