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title: ESL Shipping achieves Silver medal in its first EcoVadis assessment
description: Overall, the company ranked in the top eight per cent of the companies in our industry and in the top six per cent when it comes to the environment.
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# [ESL Shipping achieves Silver medal in its first EcoVadis assessment](https://www.eslshipping.com/en/news/esl-shipping-achieves-silver-medal-in-its-first-ecovadis-assessment)

 Written by [ESL Shipping](https://www.eslshipping.com/en/news/author/esl-shipping) | 31.1.2023 22:00:00

ESL Shipping has achieved a Silver medal in EcoVadis sustainability performance assessment. Overall, the company ranked in the top eight per cent of the companies in our industry and in the top six per cent when it comes to the environment.

ESL Shipping’s aim is to be a forerunner in sustainability and having an external organisation assessing our performance will help us to take the next steps to improve our performance further.

“Sustainability has been an integral part of our strategy for years and we are confident that with the formal assessment of our performance, we can further improve our work in all areas of sustainability”, says Operations and Environmental Director Kirsi Ylärinne.

[EcoVadis](http://www.ecovadis.com) is the world’s largest provider of business sustainability ratings with over 100,000 rated companies. The comprehensive assessment takes into account environment, labour & human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement thus providing a comprehensive picture of a company’s sustainability performance.

Read more about our sustainability work [here](https://www.eslshipping.com/en/sustainability?hsLang=en).

Download our [Ecovadis certificate](https://www.eslshipping.com/hubfs/Documents/ESL_SHIPPING_EcoVadis_Certificate_2022.pdf?hsLang=en).

**For more information, please contact:**  
Kirsi Ylärinne, Operations & Environmental Director  
tel. +358 9 521 9990, firstname.lastname@eslshipping.com

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