The Company recognizes that the maritime operation of vessels in its managed fleet involves a risk to the
environment. The Company is committed to minimizing such risks and making continuous efforts to improve
environmental performance throughout its operations.
The Company’s policy is to :
- Comply with all applicable environmental laws and regulations and apply responsible standards where laws and regulations do not exist.
- Provides a commitment to continual improvement of the environmental management system to enhance
environmental performance.
- Encourage concern and respect for the environment, emphasize every employee's responsibility in
environmental performance, and foster appropriate operating practices and training.
- Monitor the effectiveness of shipboard environmental performance and related procedures.
- Manage its business with the goal of zero incidents & zero spills and of controlling emissions and
wastes to below harmful levels.
- Respond quickly and effectively investigate incidents resulting from its shipboard operations, in order to
apply the lessons learnt for continuous improvement.
- Zero tolerance of non-compliance with MARPOL regulations.
- Undertake appropriate reviews and evaluations of its operations to measure progress and to foster
compliance with this policy.
- Place orders for procurement of supplies of stores, spares and consumables various waste reduction
methods such as ordering in bulk in order to minimize the volume of packing materials used.
- While ordering consumables every effort should be made to procure recyclable consumables.
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