Our aim is to build strong, mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders and to work with suppliers and customers whose values and conduct align with ours.
Managing supply chain risks
Including those related to safety, supply security, business integrity, human rights (including modern slavery) and financial stability, through a range of coordinated and integrated activities.
Product stewardship
Guided by leading industry standards and best practices in the handling, transport and use of our commodities to support responsible product stewardship.
Standards and certifications
Recognising that sustainability credentials from independent associations can reinforce responsible environmental and social practices and build stakeholder confidence.
Local procurement and supplier development
Sourcing goods and services from local businesses that meet our health, safety, environmental and social performance requirements, and support small, medium and micro enterprises that are part of our supply chain.
We rely on a diverse supply chain of over 5,700 suppliers across 50 countries to provide the non-traded goods and services essential to our operations, and work with more than 180 customers.
More information on our approach to a responsible value chain can be found in our Sustainability Databook 2025 and Annual Report 2025.
Our approach to responsible value chain management involves collaboration across our operations, functions, and multidisciplinary teams, including Supply, Marketing, Sustainability Strategy, Environment Stewardship, Business Integrity and Legal.
We manage supply chain risks, including those related to safety, supply security, business integrity, human rights (including modern slavery) and financial stability, through a range of coordinated and integrated activities.
These include:
Our supplier risk evaluation process enables us to identify and assess modern slavery risks among suppliers of non-traded goods and services.
This process applies throughout the lifecycle of a supplier’s engagement with us, and includes risk mapping, mandatory risk assessments during onboarding, risk-based evaluations through desktop reviews and external audits of select suppliers.
Learn more on our Modern Slavery page.
We do not own ships or employ seafarers, but rely on maritime transport for delivery of supplies and our commodities.
We conduct modern slavery risk due diligence, including vetting, audits and inspections in compliance with the Maritime Labour Convention, and support human rights initiatives through contributions to the Mission to Seafarers and its Seafarers Happiness Index. We also participate in the SEAFAIRER roundtable on seafarers’ rights and welfare, and are members of the Sea Cargo Charter.
