We established a Sustainability Committee which reports directly to the President to promote Sustainable activities of the entire Group.

• Organization

The Sustainability Committee, chaired by the President & CEO and comprising Executive Officers and Outside Board Members, is held six times a year.
It consists of seven subcommittees to promote priority issues (Marine Resource Sustainability Subcommittee, Sustainable Procurement Subcommittee, Marine Environment Subcommittee, Plastics Subcommittee, Food Loss and Waste Subcommittee, Diversity Subcommittee and Human Rights Subcommittee) and the Environmental Subcommittee, to which Executive Officers have been appointed as Subcommittee Chairpersons, with members have been appointed by Subcommittee Chairpersons.

The Sustainability Newsletter

Let’s Listen to the Voice of the Sea, an employee newsletter, is published once or twice a month as a way of disseminating Sustainable activities throughout Nissui.
The newsletter posts and shares such information as the approach to Sustainability, the progress being made by the subcommittees for each of their key issues and Sustainability events in which the employees participated. The newsletter was launched in April 2016. Each issue from the inaugural issue to the 54th issue was collected and compiled as a booklet and distributed to the Nissui Group companies. Since then, the newsletter has been distributed simultaneously to the Nissui Group companies, and in March 2022, the 119th issue was published.

Employee Training

With the aim of instilling activities to promote sustainability and raising awareness of such activities more smoothly within the company, training is conducted periodically for “Sustainability Promotion Committee Members,” one of whom is appointed in each department. Members who participated in the training are required to share the training content in their respective departments at a later date in an effort to instill activities to promote sustainability within the company.
In fiscal 2021, online training was conducted twice, in which the members participated from all departments of Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. and all business locations of the Group.

Online training session in progress

Signing of Sustainable Markets Initiative: Terra Carta (Flatfish Ltd.)

Flatfish Ltd. (UK), which is one of the Nissui Group companies outside of Japan, signed the Sustainable Markets Initiative, Terra Carta, in 2021. Terra Carta is advocated by His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales of Great Britain, with the aim of putting Nature, People and Planet at the heart of global value creation to accelerate the sustainable growth of industry. Opportunities to realize sustainable markets will be explored by collaborating with corporate and industry leaders worldwide, and if there are any obstacles to the creation of sustainable markets, ways to overcome them will be sought.

TERRA CARTA

Publication of Articles on Topic of Sustainability (Nippon Marine Enterprises, Ltd.)

The Nissui group company, Nippon Marine Enterprises, Ltd. simultaneously distributes articles once a month as a general rule in the company (i.e., its offices and main ship) on the topic of sustainability, namely, one of the following themes: “the marine plastics problem,” “carbon-neutral society and the global warming problem,” and “work-life balance and the status of leave taken.”