Corporate Social Responsibilty

From an environmental perspective Pentagon is committed to lowering emissions. Emissions come in many forms not limited to CO2. On the CO2 front, Pentagon route freight to carriers that lower emissions by using various techniques such as the use of biofuels rather than fossil fuels. While biofuels emit CO2, they are carbon neutral due their absorption of CO2 during their growth cycle. Biofuels are also sustainable, whereas fossil fuels are a known finite resource. Working in conjunction with a specialist CO2 partner, Pentagon have developed a CO2 calculator that customers use to help them with their CO2 reporting which is being required more by regulatory authorities around the world. Sulphur emissions are also correctly attracting corrective visibility. Sulphur is a significant detractor to a green environment and human health. As Pentagon are a freight forwarder, and ship most of the cargo by sea, we have incorporated the new limits on the sulphur content in the fuel oil used by all significant shipping lines into our systems. The new limits were implemented by the IMO on 1st January 2020 and drop mass by mass (m/m) emissions from 3.5% to 0.5%.

Social responsibility encompasses duty to humanity. As a logistic organisation, our business model touches many other businesses. We pay close ethical attention to suppliers and partners. We do this through a strong sense of ethics and identity, but also compliance. Our technology alerts us if an active organisation in our extensive business network is flagged as a Denied Party as posted on any of the 200 official denied party lists, or sanction lists, around the world. On a more individual level, all staff are Pentagon are required to complete an anti-bribery and anti-corruption course, each year, to ensure everyone understands what these two issues looks like and is therefore able to report such behaviours in our supply chain. Corruption is a major contributor to poverty and environmental degradation and pollution and is recognised as Number 16 “Peace, Justice, and Institutions” in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Pentagon pride itself being active in the local community. In the articles below we are proud to be active participants in the local communities in which we operate, from simple community rubbish clean up days, to shipping a mobile hospital to conflict areas such as the Congo, to donating our services to earthquake relief in Papua New Guinea.
At all times we seek to live our values via training, awareness, and courage to contribute and innovate in order to play our small part in creating a greener, healthier, and safer ecosystem.