SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Yang Ming’s mission and vision are to be an excellent transportation group dedicated to offering high-quality transportation services to meet customers’ needs. However, excellence is not only about this, but also about giving consideration to the issues all stakeholders are concerned about and facilitating the sustainable development of society and the Earth’s environment.
- Strengthening corporate governance and integrity management
- Providing Excellent Transportation Services to Fulfill Customer Service Commitments
- Energy saving and emissions reduction to achieve environmental sustainability
- Employee care and talent cultivation
- Enhance social participation to give back to society
Corresponding SDGs
Short-term Goals
- Promote board member diversity policy, with female directors comprising one third of seats, independent directors comprising no less than one-third, and directors possessing industry experience, risk management, or information security backgrounds.
- Study the establishment of a board-level sustainability development committee with no fewer than 3 members, whose qualifications should include professional knowledge and capabilities in corporate sustainability, with at least 1 director participating in supervision, and disclose its composition, responsibilities, and operations.
- Hold at least one investor conference quarterly and announce the audio-visual link information for investor conferences.
- Complete IFRS implementation according to the Taiwan Stock Exchange regulatory timeline.
- Assess the applicability of CSDDD and study CSRD reporting framework.
- Formulate specific measures to enhance corporate value, report to the Board of Directors, and disclose relevant information in the "Corporate Value Enhancement Plan" section of the Market Observation Post System.
- Upload English-disclosed annual financial reports 18 days before the annual shareholders' meeting.
- Incorporate ESG-related performance evaluation items into the payment principles and calculation methods for compensation of the President, Vice President, and the chief officers of groups, with a proportion of 10%.
- Implement personal data protection policies and disclose their content and implementation status.
- Establish relevant customer rights protection policies and complaint procedures for service marketing or labeling issues.
- Add sustainability internal control documents in accordance with IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards requirements.
- Continue to include privacy protection in internal audit items.
- Continue to strengthen ship-shore information security operations, with no major information security incidents causing core business interruption or sensitive data leakage.
- Enhance information security awareness training (at least 2 educational training sessions, at least 3 social engineering exercises).
- Complete ISO 27001 upgrade from 2013 version to 2022 version.
- Zero violations of integrity management and corruption, conflict of interest incidents.
- Conduct ISO 37001 annual due diligence.
- Maintain the validity of ISO 37001 anti-bribery management certification.
- Deepen employees' integrity management awareness through educational training, with participation rate and pass rate target of 98%.
- Conduct integrity management educational training for onboard maritime personnel with participation rate and pass rate target of 90%.
- Conduct 3 compliance educational training sessions, with participation rate and pass rate target of 98%.
- Enhance personnel's legal awareness through 1 educational training session with participation rate and pass rate target of 98%.
- Zero violations of insider trading incidents.
- Conduct internal material information and insider trading prevention educational training, with participation rate and pass rate target of 98%.
- Optimize group risk assessment policies and content.
- With reference to relevant laws and policies, continuously optimize and adjust risk management policies and incorporate emerging risks into risk assessment items.
- Key tier-1 supplier sustainability self-assessment questionnaire review ratio reaches 90%, maintaining 100% of new suppliers complete a sustainability statement survey.
- Enhance supplier sustainability awareness through at least 1 educational training/ activity.
- Launch supply chain human rights due diligence, complete document review of 3 companies and conduct on-site inspection of 1 supplier.
Medium-term Goals
- Corporate governance evaluation ranking maintained at 6-20%.
- Implement board member diversity policy, with female directors comprising one-third of seats.
- Directors possess industry experience, risk management, and information security backgrounds.
- Maintain the rights and interests of shareholders and enhance information transparency.
- Maintain the effectiveness of the internal control system
- Implement information security management.
- Strengthen employees' awareness of legal compliance and risk control, and ethical operation management mechanisms.
- Implement supplier sustainability management mechanisms and establish elimination mechanisms.
Long-term Goals
- Corporate governance evaluation ranking improved to top 5%.
- Strengthen integrity management mechanisms, enhance information transparency and awareness.
- Corporate governance evaluation ranking improved to top 5%.
- Strengthen integrity management mechanisms, enhance information transparency and awareness.
- Continuously optimize supplier sustainability management mechanisms.









