Mainfreight Annual Report 2022

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PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES Environmental, Social and Governance
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Approach to Sustainability
Our Impact
Mainfreight’s 100-year vision, established in its earliest
days, has been a guiding principle in our commitment
to sustainability. All decisions are made on the
basis that we will be here for another 100 years, and
are aligned with the key concepts of sustainability:
investing in our people and communities, reducing the
environmental impact of our activities, supporting our
customer, supplier and stakeholder relationships, and
developing our growth strategies.
OUR OUTCOMES
RELIABLE supply chain delivery
outcomes for our customers
PROSPERITY for our team and their
families, and our communities
RETURNS for our shareholders
FINANCIAL STRENGTH
to invest in further growth and
development
Our sustainability focus has the
greatest impact on the following
United Nations Sustainability
Development Goals:
HOW WE CREATE VALUE
OUR RESOURCES
FINANCIAL > Strong Financial Position
PHYSICAL ASSETS
NATURAL > Fuel, Water & Solar
SOCIAL STANDING > Community, Brand & Reputation
INTELLECTUAL > Technology & Systems
PEOPLE > Our Team & Culture
OUR OUTPUTS
7,286,572 TONNES of land freight
138,279 TONNES of air freight
424,610 TEU of sea freight
Our team culture means sustainability is not a top-down
directive or bureaucratic process, but is driven from the
ground up, by teams that are empowered to make their
own decisions. It is they who take responsibility to make
their branch, their business, and their world, just that
little bit better today than it was yesterday.
OUR MEANS
10,393 Team Members
NETWORK spanning
25 Countries
305 Branches
Air & Ocean, Warehousing and
Transportation OPERATIONS
Bespoke TECHNOLOGY Platforms
In this Sustainability section and elsewhere in this Annual
Report, we have reported on economic, environmental,
social and governance topics that Mainfreight’s
management believes are material to its business and
the communities it operates in. The topic selection is also
guided by feedback from team members, customers,
shareholders, and other stakeholders during the year.
Our Economy, Our Contribution
As a provider of integrated supply chain services,
Mainfreight’s global network offers efficient, reliable and
sustainable value for our customers.
By enabling the flow of goods, domestically and
internationally, we connect suppliers to markets and
global consumers to products, which is the basis for the
Company’s ongoing growth and success, and the source
of value for its investors and other stakeholders.
Our Community, Our Dedication
Investment in our business and our people also has a
material impact on environments and communities.
Mainfreight’s success in serving our customers is
reflected in the ongoing growth in our business across
the world. We continue to expand and intensify our
network through the development of new depots and
warehouses. This creates opportunities to work with local
communities in the development of our facilities, and
ongoing engagement with Mainfreight’s global team.
The investment in our people has the greatest impact on
our communities. Mainfreight has long recognised the
benefits of education, training and career development
for its people. Long service to the company is celebrated
and internal promotion is encouraged. The company
believes in sharing its economic value through higher
salaries, educational scholarships and its discretionary
team profit bonus scheme.
Our community focus is also outward facing and we
enjoy supporting a number of educational causes for
those less privileged, across the regions where we
operate as detailed on page 56 of this report.
Our People
Despite the contribution from our assets, infrastructure,
systems and technology it is our people that set us apart
from our competitors. People, who want to make a
difference, are hungry for success and want to be part of
a team that constantly challenges itself to do better.
Our people come first. We challenge the status quo
and we look after each other. We share our success –
through our profits – with both our shareholders and our
team. We have a transparent, team-driven approach to
reaching our targets and then lifting them.
Mainfreight has a ‘promote from within’ philosophy,
which means we are committed to developing the
individual strengths of our people.
Training and education are critical to our success.
Parallel to the on-the-job learnings are global leadership
development programmes and succession plans
for leadership roles at all levels, in all regions, of our
business. Succession planning, ongoing development
and promotion from within means our people are quite
literally our future.
Mainfreight is committed to diversity and equality in all
areas of its operations, and the Group’s Diversity Policy
is available on our website. The supply chain industry
has historically been male dominated, but we continue
to see promising developments both in the makeup of
our workforce and in the number of females in Branch
Manager roles, now at 54 (53 at the same time last year).
However we recognise we need to do better in this regard.
Our Future
Regardless of the challenges we meet today and those
that emerge in the near and more distant future, our
commitment to sustainability is inherent in our 100-year
vision. We will continue to explore and invest across all
aspects of sustainability that impact our organisation, our
people, our community and our environment.
Our Environment, Our Commitment
We harbour no illusion of the impact global supply
chains have on climate change particularly greenhouse
gas emissions and global warming.
Yet sustainability is nothing new for Mainfreight, many
of our largest emissions sources represent significant
operating costs and we manage them intently, every day,
in every branch.
Mainfreight is trusted to move goods in far more
sustainable ways than would otherwise be accessible
to our customers – utilising our modern fleet, our
investment in infrastructure around sea and rail, our
ability to consolidate freight and minimise empty
running, and our technology and delivery reliability (to
minimise stock accumulation and obsolescence).
Climate Change
In this annual report, we welcome the opportunity
to present our global emissions inventories. Data is
provided for the 2021 and 2020 calendar years.