Ensuring business flows tomorrow
How CSR benefits everyone, including YOU
The Seatrade Sustainability Seminar is a unique platform determined to improve the maritime industry’s standing.
Our half-day roundtable will be high profile with speakers from across the sector, plus other modes of transport, who are ahead of the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) curve.
Shipping may have been slower than other industries to recognise the importance of CSR but it is making up for lost time now.
For the new generation of Greek owners, as much as for the more conservative Japanese shipping companies, ‘ethical’ is the new buzz word.
Indeed, CSR looks like being a key topic for 2008 and beyond; as the regulatory environment becomes ever stricter and green lobbyists expose shipping to ever-closer scrutiny. Shipping companies will not want to ignore the growing number of ethical investors with preoccupations that extend well beyond the bottom line. Presently there are just two shipping companies on London’s FTSE4 Good Stock Index.
As a long time follower of all matters CSR, Sam Chambers, Seatrade’s Asia Editor will chair the seminar, asking panelists to comment and debate on a series of issues ranging from individual and collective social responsibility, to emissions, to examining why CSR is pivotal for our industry to get right fast.
There will also be a crucial opportunity to network with your peers during the following lunch. With such high profile senior industry speakers and international dele gates at this Seatrade seminar, put Tuesday 14 October in your diary and learn about what is shaping up to be one of the hottest topics in Maritime Week and for world shipping at large.
MCF Course Fee Subsidy is available for eligible participants. Please refer to www.mpa.gov.sg/mcf for information.
"The first step of CSR is being responsible in one's own business, and operating ethically and conscientiously. Going further into the realm of philanthropy, should companies be giving out of charity or business interest? Should this be done at the corporate or shareholder level?
Should businesses fulfill needs that governments are failing to meet? These are some of the issues surrounding CSR that I look forward to discussing with my fellow panelists at the Seatrade Sustainability Seminar."
ANDREAS SOHMEN-PAO, Managing Director, BW Shipping