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OUR CORE VALUES
AND THE SDGS

MSC is continuously expanding and diversifying its common language throughout our Group to ensure the
activities at the global level, while adapting to emerging continuation of our success and enable our employees
economic, social and political developments that are to meet ongoing and future challenges.
impacting the whole shipping industry and transforming Several consultations were also held at the manage-
its supply chain. Thus, the Aponte family decided to ment level to link the new values to current efforts
ensure that their vision and current strategic directions towards sustainability and the corresponding core
were well understood and implemented throughout SDGs promoted by MSC. While the “We are a family
the MSC Group’s value chain. In this respect, in 2015, company” value remains central to our vision and
an external consultancy was requested to assess the mission, the other ones reflect MSC’s commitment to WE HAVE
traditional core set of MSC values and to suggest new find the most innovative solutions to embrace changes PASSION
ones to reflect the internal and external changes affecting while respecting the environment, populations and the
the Group. marine environment. Through the value “We believe in
The global assessment, started in 2015, was conducted equal opportunities” we stress our strong engagement
through interviews and questionnaires, involving to promote non-discrimination practices in our
employees of all nationalities, backgrounds, functions, recruitment procedures and career paths for all our staff
positions and gender, on board and ashore, who were around the world. The value “We have passion” corre-
requested to describe the behaviours and the compe- sponds to our employees’ motivation to work together CONTINUOUS FAMILY CARE FOR
WE
WE ARE A
WE ARE IN
tencies that correspond the most to the “MSC family with enthusiasm, strive for excellence and deliver high EVOLUTION COMPANY PEOPLE
model”. The Aponte family and senior management performance results.
have also been interviewed and provided their contri- We look forward to communicating with all our stake-
bution to this project. holders in the near future about our new core values
The new set of values were approved in 2016 and will be and about our most recent initiatives with regard to
officially launched in 2017. They will be used to create a sustainability and the SDGs.
WE BELIEVE
IN EQUAL
OPPORTUNITIES

We are a family company Our core values We support the UN Sustainable
The engagement of the founding Our core values shape our Development Goals
family is at the heart of MSC’s culture and define the character We believe our approach to
core values, providing a sense of our company. They guide the business and our values
of belonging to all employees. how we behave and make will help us contribute to
Sharing the family’s entrepre- decisions, they influence a more sustainable supply
neurial spirit leads our staff to recruitment of employees chain.
act proactively, courage ously and and are fundamental to
responsibly in the best interest our operations.
of MSC’s stakeholders.

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