March 4, 2014

Dear stakeholders,

in June 2009 Royal Rotra has committed herself to support the ten principles of the UN Global Compact. We are pleased to inform you that Rotra reaffirms its support of the 10 principles in the areas of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-corruption.

We are pleased that we are able to share our progress in the further optimization of the implementation of the 10 principles in our business strategy and translate this strategy into day-to-day action.

Sincerely Yours,

Machiel Roelofsen,
Vice president Rotra

Royal Rotra respects and supports the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Rotra is committed to respecting human rights as stated in the universal declaration of human rights. We endeavor to ensure that we do not infringe on human rights and comply with the laws of the countries in which we do 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. Every new employee receives this document with guideluines at his/her careerstart at Rotra.Further more a selection of our employees are represented in a periodical meeting wtih Rotra's board of directors. 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 Alpe d' Huzes (Cancer foundation), Manusia Papua (support inhabitants Indonesia) and Care for Kosovo Kids (Kids in need in Kosovo). F.e. in Kosovo we delivered washing machines in a hospital in Pristina for free.
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 complaints form any stakeholder (business partners, employees, suppliers, customers) in relation to any human rights violations. Neither has Rotra been subject to any incident or investigation regarding human rights. Above all Rotra has had the honour at its 100th Anniversary of being granted the royal status by her Majesty the Queen: Royal Rotra. This is the ultimate proof and regocnition of Rotra social responsible and sustainable business operations during more than 100years!

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 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.

Working space for all our employees meet the strictest requirements; both office staff as our drivers and Warehouse employees. F.e. this year we installed watersprinklers at our premises in order to maintian 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.

Rotra has not been involved in any incident or investigation in relation to the Global Compact labour principles.

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.

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!

In 2014 Rotra starts the construction of its quay 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. 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 will build a filling station at its future 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.

In 2011 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 2015 (compared to 2011).

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

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. 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.