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Datums | 2014-06-05 16:30:44 |
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In order to assess its corporate responsibility and sustainability performance, Ventspils nafta terminal (VNT) for the second year in a row participated in the Sustainability Index. According to the evaluation of the experts, through the last year VNT has made several significant improvements, moving up to the Golden category.
“Over several years we have purposefully worked to reach one of the
best positions in Latvia regarding matters of occupational safety
and environmental protection, therefore we are really pleased that
our efforts have led to us being awared with the Golden category,”
points out Lars Panclaff, Managing Director of VNT, simultaneously
stressing that the granted award is equally a recognition for the
contribution to all employees of the
company.
VNT each year invests more than half a million euros into the
measures for the environmental protection. "We are operating with
petroleum products and are conscious about their potential hazards
in our every day work. The consistent consideration of
environmental aspects plays an integral role when thinking about
the company’s long term business and its responsible management,"
emphasizes Lars Pantzlaff.
The VNT environmental policy defines three major strategic
directions – careful analysis of all potential risks to avoid
hazards; purposeful reduction of the company's resource
consumption, as well as investment in the environmental
improvements.
Sustainability Index in Latvia is being organized for the fifth
year. Partners of the initiative are - Institute for Corporative
Sustainability and Responsibility, Employers' Confederation of
Latvia and Free Trade Union Confederation of
Latvia.
Methodology of the Sustainability Index of the companies of Latvia
is based on the most influential global index Dow Jones
Sustainability Index and Business in the Community CR Index
experience, taking into consideration the standard set by the
corporative responsibility standard ISO 26000 and Global Reporting
Initiative (GRI) G4 guidelines. Localized index assesses
performance of companies according to economical, social and
environmental matters crucial for Latvia, simultaneously
representing internationally recognized understanding on criteria
of corporative responsibility and
sustainability.
About Ventspils nafta termināls
VNT provides transit services − the receipt of crude oil and
petroleum products via pipelines, rail tank cars and tankers, as
well as their storage and transhipment. VNT is technologically the
most advanced and largest crude oil and petroleum product
transhipment company in the Baltics with the total tank storage
capacity of 1.2 million cubic meters.
51% of VNT is owned by JSC Ventspils nafta (NASDAQ OMX RIGA:
VNF1R), which is one of the largest groups of companies in
Latvia. JSC Ventspils nafta is the Group's parent company,
which manages investments into the companies within the Group, thus
facilitating the growth in the overall value of the Group and its
individual companies.
Elīna Dobulāne, Communications consultant
AS Ventspils nafta
Phone: +371-25959447
E-mail: elina.dobulane@vnafta.lv
www.vnafta.lv |
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