A sustainable future

To broaden our Green Agenda, we have developed six key focus areas to reflect the most relevant and important aspects of sustainability across the entire organisation of Scandlines, its operations, and its stakeholders. In line with the ESG Framework, sustainability at Scandlines goes beyond climate action through our efforts to reduce emissions in our ferry operations. It covers additional aspects of environmental protection (E- Environmental) and includes social concerns in the company and along its supply chains (S-Social) as well as good governance (G- Governance).

We continuously identify and implement projects to achieve our missions within the agenda’s 2030 timeframe. We will communicate our achievements as we go and as part of our annual report.

1. Environmental Protection

We are committed to protecting the environment, particularly in relation to the preservation of our marine environment, by taking precaution to prevent spills on- and offshore.

We also aim to reduce our environmental impact in other areas, such as biodiversity, water and emissions.

2. Health and Safety

The safety of our employees, workers, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders are of paramount importance to us and we are committed to do everything possible to ensure their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

3. People

Being the principal employer in some of the regions where we operate, we have a high responsibility towards our employees and workers providing stable employment, decent work environment including equal treatment and provision of relevant education and development opportunities.

4. Customer Satisfaction

We engage with customers and support their aspirations to travel responsibly and we are focused on ensuring customer retention and satisfaction by providing safe and efficient transportation combined with a varied retail and catering offering and continuous efforts to further reduce our environmental footprint.

5. Compliance and Ethics

We never compromise on our commitment to honest and ethical behaviour, and we comply with all relevant anti bribery laws in all jurisdictions in which we do business.

6. Healthy Supply Chains

With more than 1,500 vendors, Scandlines has a responsibility to ensure fair competition and contracts, which consider environmental principles, ensure the health and safety of workers and employees of vendors and ensure that human rights principles are adhered to.

UN Global Compact

We are participants of the UN Global Compact. The UN Global Compact is the world’s largest and most important initiative for companies who wish to do business responsibly. By signing the Global Compact, we commit to integrating the 10 global principles within human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption into our strategy and daily business.

Through our continuous efforts and implemented projects in our six focus areas, we also contribute to the achievement of 13 of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals within the agenda’s 2030 timeframe.

Read more about The UN Sustainable Development Goals

Annual and Sustainability report

In our Annual and Sustainability report you can learn more about our green investments and our initiatives to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Read the Annual and Sustainability report