General disclosures
The general disclosures provide a strategic overview of the company’s sustainable organisation and reporting and address corporate governance and stakeholder involvement. All information relates to GRI Standard 101: Foundation 2016.
The GRI Content Index of HHLA does not make use of the column
“omission” as to all disclosures information is given.
Organisational profile
102-1 Name of the organisation
102-2 Activities, brands, products and services
102-3 Location of headquarters
102-4 Location of operations
102-5 Ownership structure and legal form
102-6 Markets served
102-7 Scale of the organisation
102-8 Information on employees and other workers
102-9 Supply chain
Purchasing and materials management
Principles and reporting standards: Comments on the non financial report
Economy: Business partners
As a port and transport logistics company, HHLA acts as a service provider within the transport chains of its clients. HHLA’s own supply chains are limited to procuring capital and consumption goods (e.g. locomotives, port handling equipment) which largely originate from countries within Europe.
102-10 Significant changes to the organisation and its supply chain
102-11 Precautionary principle or approach
102-12 External initiatives
102-13 Membership of associations
Zentralverband der deutschen Seehafenbetriebe (ZDS) / Hafen Hamburg Marketing (HHM) / Unternehmensverband Hafen Hamburg e. V. (UVHH) / Logistik-Initiative Hamburg / Industrieverband Hamburg (IVH)
Strategy
102-14 Statement from senior decision-maker
102-15 Key impacts, risks and opportunities
Ethics and integrity
102-16 Values, principles and norms of behavior
102-17 Mechanisms for advice und concerns about ethics
Report of the Supervisory Board
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration
Risk and opportunity report: Risks and opportunities / Legal risks
Governance
A compliance hotline has been set up for questions and advice on the subject of compliance. There, employees can query reliable information about laws, internal guidelines and codes of conduct that are relevant to their daily work, and report violations of legal and internal regulations if necessary.
Governance
102-18 Governance structure
102-19 Delegating authority
102-20 Executive-level responsibility for economic, environmental, and social topics
102-21 Consulting stakeholders on economic, environmental, and social topics
102-22 Composition of the highest governance body and its committees
102-23 Chair of the highest governance body
102-24 Nominating and selecting the highest governance body
102-25 Conflicts of interest
102-26 Role of highest governance body in setting purpose, values, and strategy
102-27 Collective knowledge of highest governance body
102-28 Evaluation of the highest governance body’s performance
102-29 Identifying and managing economic, environmental, and social impacts
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration / Working relationship between the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board
Risk and opportunity report
Sustainability organisation and dialogue
Materiality analysis
Sustainability risks are considered as an integral part of the risk and opportunity management HHLA.
102-30 Effectiveness of the risk management processes
Report of the Supervisory Board
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration / Working relationship between the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board
Risk and opportunity report
Sustainability risks are considered as an integral part of the risk and opportunity management HHLA.
102-31 Review of economic, environmental, and social topics
Sustainability organisation and dialogue
Report of the Supervisory Board
Risk and opportunity report
Sustainability risks are considered as an integral part of the risk and opportunity management HHLA.
102-32 Highest governance body's role in sustainability reporting
Statement of the chairman
Sustainability organisation and dialogue
Principles and reporting standards
HHLA website: Sustainability / Organisation
The Chairman of the Executive Board is responsible for sustainability. The organisational integration of sustainability in the company is led by a specialist sustainability team and a Sustainability Council, comprising members of the Group management and external experts.
102-33 Process for communicating critical concerns to the highest governance body
Report of the Supervisory Board
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration / Working relationship between the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration / shareholders and agm
HHLA share: capital market dialogue
HHLA website: Annual General Meeting
All of our shareholders have the opportunity to approach the Executive Board with critical concerns in the context of our Annual General Meeting. These concerns may be submitted in writing in advance of submitted at the meeting. Each shareholder has the right to obtain truthful information from the Executive Board within the meaning of the shareholders’ right to information. Around 110 concerns were submitted and addressed in 2020. Additionally, the IR department is available throughout the year to accommodate concerns that are of particular interest for institutional and or private investors.
102-34 Communicating critical concerns
Report of the Supervisory Board
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration / Working relationship between the Supervisory Board and the Executive Board
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration: shareholders and agm
HHLA share: capital market dialogue
HHLA website: Annual General Meeting
All of our shareholders have the opportunity to approach the Executive Board with critical concerns in the context of our Annual General Meeting. These concerns may be submitted in writing in advance of submitted at the meeting. Each shareholder has the right to obtain truthful information from the Executive Board within the meaning of the shareholders’ right to information. Around 110 concerns were submitted and addressed in 2020. Additionally, the IR department is available throughout the year to accommodate concerns that are of particular interest for institutional and or private investors.
102-35 Nature and total number of critical concerns
102-36 Process for determining remuneration
102-37 Stakeholders’ involvement in remuneration
Corporate governance: Corporate management declaration
All of our shareholders have the opportunity to approach the Executive Board with critical concerns in the context of our Annual General Meeting. The current compensation system for members of the Executive Board was approved by the General Annual Meeting on June 14, 2012. On June 10, 2020, a revised compensation system will be put to the vote again at the Annual General Meeting.
102-38 Annual total compensation ratio
Corporate governance: Remuneration report
Society: Working world: Contracts, remuneration and additional benefits
No information available.
Due to the lack of standardised, internationally applicable calculation rules, for quality reasons no information can be provided that HHLA would consider to be conducive.
The compensation and benefits paid or received of all employees correspond at least to the respective national legal minimum requirements or those of the respective economic sectors. The remuneration of current members of the Executive Board complies with the requirements of the Aktiengesetz (AktG – German Stock Corporation Act) and the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code. The level of the Executive Board remuneration should be appropriate and attractive in the context of the Company’s national and international peer group. Criteria are both the result of average earnings as well as the achievement of certain sustainability components.
102-39 Percentage increase in annual total compensation ratio
No information available.
Due to the lack of standardised, internationally applicable calculation rules, for quality reasons no information can be provided that HHLA would consider to be conducive.
The compensation and benefits paid or received of all employees correspond at least to the respective national legal minimum requirements or those of the respective economic sectors. The remuneration of current members of the Executive Board complies with the requirements of the Aktiengesetz (AktG – German Stock Corporation Act) and the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code. The level of the Executive Board remuneration should be appropriate and attractive in the context of the Company’s national and international peer group. Criteria are both the result of average earnings as well as the achievement of certain sustainability components.
Stakeholder engagement
102-40 List of stakeholder groups
Sustainability organisation and dialogue
Materiality analysis
Principles and reporting standards
Society
HHLA engages in regular dialogue with its stakeholders, who include customers (e. g. shipping companies), customers’ customers (e. g. forwarders), employees, suppliers, the media, potential and existing shareholders, associations and institutions, research institutes, political decision-makers, local residents close to the terminals and interested members of the public.
102-41 Collective bargaining agreements
102-42 Identifying and selecting stakeholders
102-43 Approach to stakeholder engagement
HHLA share: capital market dialogue
Sustainability organisation and dialogue
Materiality analysis
Society: Social commitment
The different stakeholders are engaged on a continual basis by means of numerous events and diverse communication channels, e. g. by means of regular meetings with residents on the subject of noise, events concerning the planned development of the company with customers and shareholders, or guided tours of HHLA terminals.
102-44 Key topics and concerns of stakeholders raised
Materiality analysis
HHLA share: capital market dialogue
In the course of dialogue with neighbouring residents of the port terminals, noise-reducing equipment was purchased, a hotline was set up and operating processes to minimise noise were introduced. At the suggestion of stakeholders, we report the CO2 emissions per container handled annually.
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