Strengthening Global Compliance, Including Competition Law and Anti-Bribery Measures

「In addition to the Hotline Desk for receiving internal reports from officers and employees of the Company and its domestic group companies, we established a Global Hotline Desk for receiving internal reports from officers and employees of overseas group companies. We are working to prevent compliance issues in the Group’s domestic and overseas businesses, detect risks at an early stage and implement corrective measures.」

「In July 2020, our internal whistleblowing system was registered under the Consumer Affairs Agency’s “Internal Whistleblowing System Certification (Self-Declaration of Conformity Registration System)” (*).」

「In November 2019, we revised the Global Policy by adding individual policies on economic sanctions and anti-money laundering, and are thoroughly enforcing compliance by officers and employees of the Company and its group companies with economic sanctions regulations applicable to the Group’s businesses, as well as rules concerning anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism.」

「The “川崎汽船グループ グローバルコンプライアンスポリシー” established in January 2017 (hereinafter, the “Global Policy”) was intended to respond to increasingly stringent regulations in each country aimed at promoting fair competition and strengthen the Group’s global compliance framework. Through seminars held by a dedicated department, distribution of guidebooks and activities of specialist committees, we worked to make the Global Policy a code of conduct for the day-to-day operations of officers and employees of the Company and its group companies.」

「As part of strengthening an effective Group compliance framework for competition law compliance and anti-bribery measures, in January 2017 we established the “川崎汽船グループ グローバルコンプライアンスポリシー.” In March 2017, we also held an anti-bribery seminar for our officers and employees, inviting an external instructor.」