Our Sustainability Strategy

Sustainability Report 2024/2025

Positioned at the crossroads of global connectivity, SAGT is advancing global trade while pioneering a sustainable future. As the first Public Private Partnership Container Terminal in Sri Lanka SAGT has propelled the Port of Colombo as a global transshipment hub. Over its legacy of 25 years, sustainability has remained at the core of its operations and is embedded across the organization through a Sustainability Management Framework. SAGT leads in the Port of Colombo and the region in efforts such as terminal decarbonisation, digitisation and automation and fostering gender diversity. While SAGT has set the benchmark for terminal productivity, the Company remains committed to transforming the Port of Colombo into a green transshipment hub for the region.

Sustainability Management Framework

  • Identifying stakeholder concerns
  • Policy and framework
  • Reporting and external assurance
  • Sustainability Management Framework
  • Data tracking mechanism
  • Sustainability initiatives
  • Benchmarking and variance

Our Sustainability Priorities

Environment stewardship

  • Materials
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Emissions
  • Effluents & waste
  • Environment compliance
  • Supplier assessment

Corporate governance

  • Transparency
  • Governance
  • Accountability
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Code of Conduct
  • Sustainability Reporting

Social responsibility

  • Engagement
  • Customer health & safety Customer privacy
  • Socioeconomic compliance

Enabling work environment with a focus on wellbeing, safety, security and health

  • Employment
  • Labour relations Training
  • Diversity & equal opportunity
  • Non-discrimination
  • Freedom of association
  • Forced & compulsory labour
  • Occupational health & safety
  • Customer health and safety
  • Cyber security
  • Emergency Response

Sustainability Report 2024/2025

Sustainability Report 2023/2024

Sustainability Report 2022/2023

Sustainability Report 2021/2022

Sustainability Report 2020/2021

Sustainability Report 2019/2020

Partnerships

SheWorks is a collaboration of 15 leading Sri Lankan companies across a range of sectors which began in March 2018. Participating companies are implementing business solutions that help boost the quality and quantity of jobs for women and men in the private sector, which is good for business, employees, communities and the economy.

Download Report-Sri Lankan Businesses Advance Gender Equality

The World Ocean Council (WOC) is a global, cross-sectoral ocean industry leadership alliance committed to “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”, developed by and for the private sector, with a unique and multi-sectoral approach to address cross-cutting issues affecting ocean sustainable development, science and stewardship of the seas.

As a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals.