Logistics

The Mitsui Chemicals Group Responsible Care Policy states that the Group implements activities designed to ensure safety, health, and quality, as well as protect the natural environment throughout the entire life cycle of its chemical products, including the logistics.
The environment surrounding the logistics industry is becoming even more challenging due to the increasing risk of disruptions to logistics networks caused by climate change, earthquakes and other natural disasters, international conflicts, as well as a serious shortage of logistics labor. In this severe and dynamic social environment, the stable supply of our Group's products, which play a fundamental role in society, is not only our social responsibility but also our mission.
In VISION 2030, we have defined our group's logistics target by 2030. “We will fulfill our social responsibility as a cargo owner by ensuring safety, reducing environmental impact, and improving the working environment for logistics personnel. Furthermore, we will strongly support business development and transformation by establishing stable and competitive logistics schemes and systems. Additionally, by proactively introducing and applying logistics digital transformation, we will build a system that continuously ensures the realization of smart logistics, operational efficiency, and improved operational quality.”

The Group is working in collaboration with the supply chain to build a resilient logistics system that can respond flexibly to all environmental changes, mainly focusing on responsible care in logistics (Logistics RC) activities aimed at maintaining and improving the logistics environment, safety, and quality.

Under the supervision of the responsible officer for the Digital Transformation (DX) Sector, who oversees the Logistics Division, we are working to improve and promote logistics RC throughout the entire logistics supply chain, including at affiliates and partner companies.

The Logistics Division, as the department responsible for promoting logistics RC, sets goals for the fiscal year based on results up to the previous year (number of accidents, complaints, etc.), and establishes the annual Logistics RC plan. In order to ensure safe, environmentally sound, and quality logistics system, we believe it is important to collaborate with logistics providers. For this reason, our annual logistics RC plan includes measures such as audits, educations, worksite dialogues, and campaigns for the logistics providers under our jurisdiction.

Progress in implementing the plan is checked at monthly meetings held by logistics RC promoters appointed from the departments in charge of logistics at the Head Office and each Works.

In addition, to horizontally deploy the Group’s accumulated knowledge and experience across our global organization, we have established a Global Policy on logistics aimed at preventing accidents during the transportation and storage of dangerous goods, and at ensuring transparency and preventing fraud in logistics management operations. We are promoting the penetration of this policy and its practical implementation across Group companies.

Furthermore, we regularly hold a Global Logistics Meeting with the heads of the logistics division of our overseas affiliates. The purpose is to share information on logistics issues and countermeasures at each site and to promote understanding of the company-wide policy toward a sustainable logistics supply chain.

Monthly meetings of logistics RC promoters from the Head Office and each Works check the status of the Group's annual plan targets and monitor progress, and at the Responsible Care Committee meetings, logistics performance and plan progress are reported and opinions are exchanged.
The Logistics Division also conducts audits and worksite dialogues with logistics providers , and the results are shared at monthly meetings.