Dear stakeholders,

I am pleased to confirm that Rotra Logistics 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,

Mr. Machiel Roelofsen
Vice President

Royal Rotra respects and supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Rotra is committed to respecting human rights as stated in the human declaration of human rights. We endeavour to ensure that we do not infringe on human rights and comply with the laws of the countries in which we operate. Both internally and externally.

Rotra has drawn up internal rules and guidelines which describe rights and obligations of employees and management. These guidelines are provided internally and to be consulted any moment. These are documented in our new Intranet webportal (Sharepoint). Every new employee receives this document with guidelines at his/her careerstart at Rotra. Besides that we are introducing narrow casting within our company in order to reach all Warehouse-employees and drivers (who don't work with a computer). And of course our visitors who are waiting at our reception in our various premises.

Further more a selection of our employees are represented in a periodical meeting wtih Rotra's board of directors. These employees are elected and represent all employees within our company. All ideas, remarks etc. can be communicated via this platform. Externally Rotra screens suppliers and agree on contracts and quality management in order to maintain human rights and correct behaviour. Besides that, as a socially committed organization we support charities like Friends of Senegal support inhabitants Senegal - medical care) and Alpe d'HuZes (Cancer foundation). We also support local sportclubs in order to enable our employees to stay in good physical and mental shape.
We also have an agreement with a sportschool in the neighbourhood where all employees can work on their physical shape at discounted tariff.

Royal Rotra has not ever received any complaint from any stakeholder in relation to any human rights violations. Neither has Rotra been subject to any incident or investigation regarding human rights.

Royal Rotra has had the honor having met all standards and requirements of SMETA and successfully completed the audit in 2014! SMETA stands for Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: an assessment aimed at ensuring ethical entrepreneurship in companies. The areas considered were labor, health & safety, environment and business ethics. Above all Rotra has had the honour at its 100th Anniversary of being granted the royal status by her Majesty the Queen: Royal Rotra.

Rotra's Human Resource policy and contracts with employees describe required rights and employer obligations (e.g. safety and health, non discrimination/equal chances, working hours, wages etc.). This according to Dutch and Belgian Law.
In order to maintain a high-quality service and give all our employees the opportunity to develop and gain knowledge we started the Rotra Academy.

Description of concrete actions taken by the company to implement labour policies, address labour risks and respond to labour violations.

Working space for all our employees meet the strictest requirements; both office staff as our drivers and Warehouse employees. F.e. this year we created (walking) routes within our Warehouses in order to maintain safety for all our employees. Further more we renew our trucks periodically > meet the strictest, most recent requirements in relation to safety and environment.
We also introduced our own Rotra Academy. Professional teachers train all our employees at the Rotra Academy (drivers, Warehouse-employees, office staff and management) in order to increase quality as well as safety. We want to enable our personnel to improve their skills. All this info is also shared and documented in our new Intranet webportal. Labour rules and rules of conduct are presented at wallsheets throughout our offices.
In 2015 we moved with 2 of our premises to new locations in order to facilitate further growth and enable our employees to work in a well-equipped new environment which meets the space we need with our larger amount of Rotra employees.

Rotra has never been involved in any incident or investigation in relation to the Global Compact labour principles. Further more as stated in the Human Rights section rotra successfully completed the SMETA audit > SMETA stands for Sedex Members Ethical Trade Audit: an assessment aimed at ensuring ethical entrepreneurship in companies. The areas considered were labor, health & safety, environment and business ethics. Above all we are considering/preparing an employee-satisfaction survey within our company in order to be sure the employees are as satisfied as we think they are and enable us to change/adapt things whenever necessary.

Rotra uses its key position by converting its policy into concrete actions and results and in doing so actively contributes to a sustainable society in which people, planet and profit go together. Rotra is strongly committed to providing sustainable service and by means of its Rotra Academy, communicates this awareness to all its employees and externally by our Rotra Newsletter, social media and our website.

Rotra's green policy dates right back to the 80s of the past century. Rotra developed its first trailers for train transport (Hupac Transport) to Southern Europe; currently still hundreds of trailers are leaving by train on a monthly basis. In the early 80s Rotra developed the first volume combinations; the first vehicle to pass the LZV (Long Heavy Vehicle)-test in the Netherlands in 2004 was a Rotra-roadtrain!
In recent years Rotra has fulfilled its pioneering role in sustainable logistics by introducing trucks running on alternative fuels. After taking into use Europe's first truck on ethanol in 2007, the first clean Econic natural gas truck was introduced in the Benelux in the summer of 2009. In 2011 Rotra introduces trucks on CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) and LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas).

In the summer of 2010 Rotra provides its 5000m2 large Automatic Bicycle Warehouse (ABW) in Doesburg with solar cells. By using this renewable, environmental friendly, energy Rotra establishes an annual emission-reduction of over 48.000 kgs CO2!

2014 Rotra started the construction of its own container terminal at its premises in Doesburg. Rotra expects to handle 5.000-10.000 containers yearly and therefore saves up to 194 truck-loads from Rotterdam/Antwerp to Doesburg v.v. by road weekly. The terminal will be operational this April! With this environment-friendly alternative for the increasing congestion by road Rotra establishes, besides extra service to our customers, an enormous CO2 emission reduction. Within this project Rotra has built a filling station at its terminal, which will be used for the filling of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) for both trucks and barges as clean and quiet alternative for fuels such as diesel. The first multimodal inland LNG-station in Europe. Rotra believes in LNG as the clean, quiet and safe fuel for the future and supports with this initiative the sustainable use of the multimodal transport chain. The project is supported by the European Union with a contribution from its TEN-T program. December 2015 this project has been finished and has gained a lot of (media-)exposure.

However, as it is impossible to reduce the CO2-emission to zero and Rotra's ambition is 100% climate neutral transport, we would like to tackle the residual emission with our clients. Therefore, we offer our clients the possibility to transport 100% climateneutral together with Rotra. With our product Rotra Green Footprint we collect shipments worldwide 100% CO2-neutral and deliver them at their destination. We can do this by compensating the CO2-emission, in cooperation with the Climate Neutral Group (www.climateneutralgroup.com), with investments in sustainable energy projects.

Rotra has been awarded the Lean&Green Award for its sustainable strategy. The environmental performance is measured by the objectives stated by the organization of this award > 20% CO2 reduction in 5 years of time.
The Rotra Group compensated 677.404kgs CO2 in 2015 with the product Rotra Green Footprint. This is more than 5 times we compensated the year before. We hope we can continue this positive trend in cooperation with our esteemed clients and partners.

This year Rotra will be awarded The Green Award > with our own Container Terminal we are capable of facilitating sustainable innovative transport and threfore will be Green Award member from now on. In addition we will give a discount on our services to all other Green Award 'winners'/participants

Rotra does not accept any form of bribery and corruption; neither employees, nor Rotra's management nor our partners/suppliers worldwide. We select our partners according to strict criteria (I.e. manipulation, moneylaundering, bribery, charitable benefits/gifts).

Rotra maintains strict guidelines for employees how to act in case of bribery. Integrity is an important part of our policy. We have even printed our policy on posters hanging on the walls in all our premises. We also publicate them on our Intranet; everyone is any moment of the day aware of our people, planet, profit statement. Further more we introduce narrow casting (screens throughout our various locations) in order to reach all employees (drivers, Warehousemembers) New personnel is screened by our HRM in order to minimize the chance of corruption. An appropriate sanction will follow in case of any violation.

Rotra has never been involved in any incident or investigation in relation to corruption and/or bribery. Our predicate '' Royal'' is a big honour and ultimate proof of anti-corruption. We monitor regulations and act accordingly. We have an agreement with Dutch government to only have limited tax- monitoring because of proven mutual trust. We are also AEO certified and 'known shipper' in favour of our customs and Air&Ocean activities.