The Achilles Maritime Network brings together market leading owners and operators to standardise supplier qualification, reduce supply chain risk, comply with legislation and support a just transition to Net Zero in a cost-effective and efficient manner.
The Achilles Maritime Network is a collective response by shipping companies and their suppliers to support decarbonisation, achieve supply chain transparency, comply with emerging legislation and meet increasing stakeholder expectations. Ship owners and managers share the burden of compliance. Shipping suppliers and contractors benefit from the efficiency of standardization and, through pre-qualification, build stronger relationships and see business growth.
Achilles works with leading shipping companies and adjacent industry partners across continents to address maritime supply chain impacts, support continuous supplier improvement, provide due diligence reporting confidence and ensure compliance with ESG legislation.
“Partnering with Achilles aligns perfectly with our newly developed supplier code of ethics and plastic reduction programs. Achilles’ expertise in proactively validating and managing suppliers and ensuring adherence to high ESG standards is invaluable to us.”
Rick Ackermann, Head of Procurement, BW LPG
Shipping companies are increasingly developing ESG strategies and working proactively to address a wide set of sustainability risks and impacts. This work includes defining roadmaps and ensuring strong governance as well as integrating those activities into their business activities and procurement decisions. The scope of this work is broad and includes carbon reduction, environmental stewardship, marine protection, safety and security and human rights.
Global logistics is responsible for 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. In line with the IMO’s carbon reduction targets and to support downstream customers’ ambitious decarbonisation targets, shipping companies are setting challenging science-based targets to reach net zero emissions by 2050. This requires visibility of end- to-end carbon impact including data from suppliers to enable Scope 3 (indirect) emissions to be measured and reduced.
New legislation such as the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is requiring shipping companies to assess material impacts and risks across both their direct operations and value chains. Other legislation such as CSDDD, LKSG, Apenhetsloven and BRSR Core are demanding greater supply chain transparency including establishing end-to-end visibility on supplier performance through collaboration and engagement, operating more rigorous supplier qualification processes and embedding ESG requirements into source-to-pay processes.
Sustainability and responsible business practices are increasingly seen as a baseline requirement by shipping’s customers, investors, employees, regulators and broader society. The nature of the industry requires shipping companies to have large, complex and geographically diverse supply chains and a high dependence on contractor relationships, many of which can be categorised as high risk. Initial risk profiling to identify and, then, address the inherent ESG risks associated with shipping supply chain complexity is helping to build resilience as well as foster stakeholder trust.
Best practice carbon reduction
Achieve up to 50% reduction in emissions
Carbon Reduce is a world-leading GHG emissions programme developed by New Zealand climate scientists to support businesses of all sizes to build best practice capability on carbon, achieve long term sustained carbon reduction and report scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions with confidence.
Achilles has many decades of experience working with the world’s leading companies to address supply chain risks, reduce carbon emissions and deliver exceptional supply chain transparency.
Prequalified Supplier Network
Access a rigorously validated database of pre-qualified shipping industry suppliers meeting qualification criteria defined and agreed by Maritime Network participants.
Supplier Due Diligence
Rigorous assessment and validation of your shipping company’s supply chain to ensure suppliers meet your standards and ensure you are compliant with the regulations relevant to your operations.
Carbon Reduction
Effectively measure, manage and reduce your carbon footprint with the world’s only ISO14064-1 Carbon Management Scheme.
Statement of Assurance
Clearly demonstrate your performance against ESG KPIs and Sustainability Performance Targets (SPTs) to lenders and other stakeholder groups.
Achilles was recognised for the work it does to support UK organisations to manage existing and emerging regulated procurement obligations, achieve supply chain transparency and its world-leading Carbon Reduce programme which on average enables businesses to reduce operational carbon by 50% within 5 years.
