A Systematic Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility

NORDEN has introduced a more systematic approach to environmental and social sustainability in order to take greater responsibility for safety at sea, occupational health, external environment, employee conditions and opportunities and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues.

Previously, NORDEN addressed individual issues on the CSR agenda based on the Company’s values. An example of this is our longstanding work on occupational health and safety at sea, involving regular information, systematic examination of near misses and an extensive set of KPIs for officers in order to eliminate industrial injuries onboard the Company’s vessels and help minimise the vessels’ impact on the external environment through groundings, collisions, spills or the like.

Environmental focus on propulsion resistance and optimising fuel consumption
Focus on safety and working conditions
NORDEN’s CSR work is structured in accordance with the United Nations Global Compact

Globale solutions to global challenges

Climate management and CO₂ emissions are global problems requiring a global solution. The Kyoto protocol places regulation of the shipping business in the hands of the UN’s international shipping organisation, the IMO. The IMO is working on determining a measure of how energy-efficiently a vessel transports its cargo. This work is to form the basis for the regulation of CO₂ emissions by the shipping industry. NORDEN supports the IMO’s work and considers it important to find international solutions to this global problem, as such solutions provide the best environmental improvements and ensure equal competition for all shipping companies around the world. More

Focus areas

NORDEN has defined a set of views and selected some specific focus areas. In 2008, NORDEN will ensure that adequate management systems are established to handle compliance with these policies and reporting systems, allowing the Company to focus on continual improvements. More

Community activities

NORDEN supports various benevolent initiatives directly and through foundation grants, e.g. the financing of a PhD stipend with the Copenhagen Business School focusing on environmental challenges facing shipping; the financing of equipment for a hospital in the Philippines, contributions to activities in local Philippine communities,sponsorships of the Experimentarium, the Singapore Centre for Maritime Studies and the Shanghai Maritime University as well as paid trips for Chinese students and professors to study in Denmark. More