Eimskip strives to provide its customers with the most efficient and sustainable transportation solutions combined with outstanding services, while securing a good return for its shareholders and being responsible towards its employees and society, including the environment.Eimskip defines society as one of its stakeholders. Other stakeholders are the Company’s shareholders, customers, and employees. Corporate social responsibility plays a large role in its operations, and environmental matters are important. Eimskip’s values are Achievement, Cooperation, and Trust. These are the employees’ guiding principles in the Company’s endeavor to work for a better society, preserve and protect the environment, and to be a role model when it comes to responsibility and trust.Eimskip signed the Reykjavík Declaration on Climate Issues. Eimskip was also one of many companies that signed a joint declaration on responsible tourism.Eimskip wants to contribute to a better and safer society wherever it operates and responsibility towards the community is an integral part of its corporate responsibility policy. Eimskip supported a variety of community projects and non-governmental organizations.  The Company gave priority to improving sea safety, supporting environmental projects, charities, sporting activities, culture and innovation and, last but not least, projects centered on youth and children.The Company is especially proud of its bicycle helmet project, which began in 2004 in cooperation with Kiwanis. The Company has given all six-year-old children in Iceland bicycle helmets and safety reflectors to contribute to youth safety. Eimskip has given helmets to about 65,000 children.n, Eimskip continued working on Corporate Social Responsibility. The Company focused on implementing the Company’s CSR policy within the group and on developing CSR measurements and goals. We also worked to further reduce the Company’s ecological footprint.a team of employees was appointed to review, select, and connect the operation and policies to the United Nations sustainable development goals. The emphasis will be on four goals that are related to the operation and policies. Regarding that, measurable projects will be worked on and implemented within Eimskip in 2020.Eimskip is a registered participant of the UN Global Compact, the United Nation’s initiative for social responsibility with respect to human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. The Company has committed to manage its business operations so that the UN Global Compact and its Ten Principles become a part of the Company’s strategy, culture, and day-to-day operations.As an environmental service to its customers, Eimskip has developed a carbon calculator for both sea and land transport. That is accessible on the Company’s website.Eimskip will continue to focus on reduced emissions and improved waste management, and, at the same time, strives to increase the transparency of its ecological footprint throughout the supply chain. The focus in 2020 will be on the continued monitoring of emissions and waste from the supply chain. Moreover, Eimskip will continue to collect data from all emitting sources and stream it electronically to a common data warehouse. This digitalization of emission and waste registration data from the supply chain enables continuous monitoring of measures and provides reliable and transparent information on the current status.