9th December 2013

To our stakeholders:

I am pleased to confirm that [ Company Name ] reaffirms its support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption.

In this annual Communication on Progress, we describe our actions to continually improve the integration of the Global Compact and its principles into our business strategy, culture and daily operations. We also commit to share this information with our stakeholders using our primary channels of communication.

Sincerely yours,

Dirk Kuijt

Chief Executive Officer

Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd fully supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a seafaring business we are particularly interested in the rights and welfare of Seafarers. To this end we have this year fully accepted the new Maritime Labour Convention (2006) legislation and ensure that any seafarer recruitment agencies that we utilise are MLC compliant.
In 2014 we will add a section in our supplier's assessment analysis which questions whether or not suppliers comply/adhere to UN Global Compact - and if they don't we will recommend that they do.
We have identified that our HR Manager will have responsibility for introducing a corporate social responsibility policy which will include a section on respect and support of human rights.

We have recently introduced a suggestion scheme which asks employees for their suggestion on how to improve practices at work - this is specifically focused on employee health, safety & welfare. The scheme was launched in November via an employee competition and I am pleased to report that we have received a number of suggestions. The scheme will now be on-going.

As part of the recent introduction of Maritime Labour Convention we have introduced an on-board vessels Complaints Procedure which allows seafarers to have their grievances heard and resolved quickly in a systematic, fair way.

We have fully complied with the introduction of Maritime Labour Convention (2006) which protects and secures basic rights for seafarers - we complied with this in August of this reporting period.
To date we have had zero human rights related grievance cases.

All of our employees receive written contracts of employment which clearly states their rights and responsibilities along with their compensation and benefits. Moreover, we have also introduced a specific seafarer's agreement which highlights the key areas of their employment. We are ISO 9001 certified and this year we also became OHSAS 18001 certified and these quality and health & safety systems mean that we recruit, reward and manage our employees in a systematic and structured way, with keeping employees safe our top priority.

We issue a company newsletter to employees that always seeks their feedback on everything from the type of vessels we are investing to suggestions for improving health and safety at work. We have a section in the company newsletter that highlights any legislation changes - so for example we carried a section on the introduction of the Maritime Labour Convention as well as issuing individual letters to employees and workers.
This year we gained OHSAS 18001 health and safety certification - this was an important step for us to ensure that the safety management systems we utilise are effective and consistent.

As above we recently achieved OHSAS 18001 certification and this involved undergoing external third party audit. This year we have not had any issues or court cases relating to violations of the Global Compact Labour principles.

Maritime Craft Services (Clyde) Ltd is a maritime organisation and we fully comply with all legislation relating to the environment such as MARPOL etc.
For 2014 we intend to achieve ISO 14001 certification which will reinforce our commitment to the environment.

This year we introduced a suggestion scheme for employees to suggest ways that we as a business can improve our commitment and management of the environment. We ask suppliers to confirm that they have an environmental policy. Our Compliance department are responsible for managing environmental protection within our business.

Our integrated management manual along with environmental policy governs how we manage environmental protection. Also we ensure that we fully comply with maritime legislation in this area - we regularly carry out internal audits in this area. Moreover, we have identified that it is important for us to confirm our commitment to environmental management and protection by achieving ISO 14001 certification - we have set this goal to achieve this in 2014.

We do not currently have a written policy of zero-tolerance for corruption, bribery and extortion, however, we fully intend to include this in our corporate responsibility policy which will be delivered this year. Our disciplinary policy does make employees aware that bribery, corruption, extortion will be treated as disciplinary offences. We wish to confirm our commitment that our business does not support such practices.

This is an area which we will focus on in 2014 as we have identified through our commitment to the Global Compact that we need to raise awareness with employees about these issues.

The company would deal with an incident of corruption via the disciplinary procedure as it is written into the policy that it will not be tolerated. In this way any employee involved in corruption would deb given a fair hearing. We have not had any investigations or court cases relating to corruption and/or bribery. In 2014 we will issue a corporate responsibility policy which will affirm our commitment to anti-corruption.