Corporate Social Responsibility


At PIL, we aim to make a lasting and positive impact on people and communities. Wherever we operate and wherever our ships sail to, we strive to provide the best support we can to our friends, partners, employees and their families, and the communities at large.

Over the years, PIL has been involved in various community engagement initiatives, rendering financial assistance and contributing in kind whenever possible.



Supporting Singapore’s National Day Parades

Since 2015, PIL has been a strong supporter of Singapore’s National Day Parade (NDP) celebrations by sponsoring 20-foot GP containers for use in the delivery of goods to the parade venue, as well as safe storage of props and funpacks. This annual national event is of key significance to Singapore in its efforts to forge a strong national identity among its citizens.



Aid for seafarers affected by Typhoon Rai

In times of natural disasters, PIL stands ready to render assistance to affected communities. The devastation and impact caused by Typhoon Rai in late 2021/early 2022 to the lives and properties of the Filipino population, including our Filipino seafarers, have been extensive and significant. PIL extended a cash assistance to each of our Filipino seafarers, which helped bolstered their efforts in regaining their lives and tiding them over the difficult period.



COVID-19 efforts

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives and wellbeing, and devastated the livelihoods and stability of many. Many of our PIL overseas offices and agencies have stepped up to answer the call in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as donation of cash and personal protective equipment.



China

In recognition of the contribution and dedication of healthcare workers in the fight against COVID-19, PIL China made donations and presented gifts to the healthcare workers in China.



Indonesia

For PT Jangkar Pacific, an agent of PIL Indonesia, its staff participated in a mass vaccination exercise for shipping employees, crews, logistics staff and port workers in June 2021. Subsequently, our colleagues in Indonesia helped out in the distribution of donations in food and basic necessities, to the poor and needy, who have been severely affected by the pandemic.



East Africa

To support the African government’s initiative in combating against COVID-19, PIL Djibouti contributed with a cash donation. Together with the members of the local Shipping Agents Association, a sum of DJF 11 million (approximately SG$ 83,200) was donated to the government to provide financial assistance to the citizens of Djibouti.



Myanmar

In 2018, the sea and shore staff of PIL Myanmar founded PMA Care to assist the poor in Myanmar. A 3-wheel carrier was donated to Yangon General Hospital for them to ferry COVID-19 patients to the mortuary with dignity and love. A video laryngoscope machine was also donated to one of the government hospitals in Pathein, and a cash donation to a government hospital in Naypyidaw in 2020.



Middle East

PIL Jordan contributed to the local government fund, Hemmat Watan Fund, to support national efforts to curb the pandemic and its effects in 2020. The funds raised were distributed to various sectors such as healthcare, to cover the costs of establishing a field hospital.

Apart from that, they further assisted by paying the school fees of students whose parents had passed on due to COVID-19, or had lost their jobs during the pandemic in 2021.



Mumbai

Over the past two years, PIL Mumbai has been donating cash to the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief Emergency Situations (PM Cares) Fund, aimed at providing quality treatment and research on COVID-19. Through this, it has assisted in the national COVID-19 vaccination drives and the purchase of ventilators for COVID-19 patients requiring oxygen supply.



Charitable Donations

PIL Jordan has been actively providing cash donations to various associations such as the Promise Welfare Society, so that more people can have access to education, and a better quality of life. Other organisations such as the Jordan Solidarity Association of the Deaf and the Monastery of Virgin Mary have also received cash donations, where the deaf and the poor receive support.

In 2020, PIL Mumbai donated cash and daily necessities to a non-profit organization, Jeevan Anand Sanstha, where the needy receive financial and food assistance. The following year, they donated cash to Tata Memorial Hospital, one of the oldest and largest cancer centres around the world.

PIL Cameroon, together with the members of the National Shipping Association donated a sum of money in purchase of personal protective equipment (PPEs) for the staff working at the Port of Douala in 2020.



Providing Free Shipments

Since 2005, PIL HK, in collaboration with Crossroads Foundation (Hong Kong), has been sponsoring free shipment slots from Hong Kong to various ports in Africa. Such shipments have benefitted street children in Cameroon access education, given children who have never used computers free access to computer labs in Zambian schools, and even equipped an agricultural and food programme in Ebola-affected areas in Sierra Leone.