Sustainability

CommunityMaterial Issues :Costal CommunitySeaTransportationEducationEnvironmentOilfieldservicesLogisticsSince Sea transportation and oilfield services are operating on the high seas, these is no or low interaction with any community.Logistics business is covered under a service level agreement with Essar Steel and has no direct interaction with the communityaround our operations. All the impact assessments are conducted by Essar Steel. The only community in direct contact with theLogistics business is of the trackers.The following details some of the initiatives taken by ESL in the last 2 years:After the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai in 2008, it is widely accepted that one of the factors that could have prevented the attackswas greater alertness by coastal fishermen. Thereafter, the Indian Coast Guard decided to interact directly with the thousands offishermen who live in communities along the coast to make them aware of threats and how important it was to report anomalies.In the larger interest of security of the country, the Indian Coast Guard initiated a motorcycle rally to sensitize the coastalcommunities on the need to be vigilant. Essar Shipping sponsored the rally and has been doing so since its inception. The aim is tohave coastal communities augment the surveillance capabilities of the State Security agencies. The results have been veryencouraging with the coast guard that unauthorized or unidentified craft reports have been going up.An extensive 9-day rally was planned, where a Coast Guard team went along the Maharashtra coast on motorcycles, from villageto village, to create awareness, besides doing GPS mapping of the area. Essar Shipping sponsored all the logistics of this rally; themotorcycles were provided by Hero Honda.74