SUSTAINABILITY AT GREEN YARD

Green Yard is Norway’s first and only full life cycle shipyard group, committed to reducing the maritime industry’s environmental footprint through innovation, circular economy practices, and responsible operations. We operate with 100% renewable electric energy and aim for zero pollution to air and sea.

Our shipyards are ISO 9001 and 14001 certified.

We aim to be the most sustainable alternative in the market.

Sustainability is much more than environmental goals, we focus on all aspects of Sustainability with special high focus on Social and Governmental Sustainability in addition to the environmental and climate challenges.

To fulfill the goals within social and governmental sustainability you have to work systematically over decades and have the will to take the cost for this.



Project Sustainable Profile 

Together with our quotation we also deliver a “Project Sustainability profile” , this describes all the sustainable benefits that the project will achieve by doing the project at Green Yard.

This document can be used towards the Stakeholders in the project in de decision phase.

After competition of the project, we will deliver a report showing the actual values in the project.

This framework provides a summary of, for example:

Steel usage, waste, and energy in CO₂ equivalents.

Reuse of components and planned recycling.

Sustainability values prognosis and alignment with Green Yard goals.


Our Sustainable Goals, in complacence with United nations Sustainability Development Goals

Goal 4.4 Increase Relevant Skills

 

Increase Relevant Skills for Employment and contribute to increase knowledge and quality of schools and universities.

We have apprentices and internship placements in our production. School classes and students frequently visit, and we also serve as mentors for master's students from the university.

 

Goal 8.8 Protect Labor Rights and Promote Safe Working Environments

 

We ensure the working environment and fair wages for employees, especially migrant workers, and women. General application tariff agreements for all employers both own and from sub-contractors.

We have a high HSEQ standard.

ISO 9001 and 14001 compliance.

 

Goal 9.2 – Promote Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization

 

Upgrading vessels for green sectors.

Use local suppliers and prefabrication to reduce emissions and to grow local industry.

We work to improve framework conditions and increase competitiveness for our industry,  to raise the industry's share of Norwegian GDP.

 

Goal 12.5 – Reduce Waste Generation

 

Up to 97% of recycled ship materials recycled.

Second-hand components introduced where possible in our projects.

Cooperation with other parties in the maritime industry to reduce their impact by trading of equipment and materials.

Strict routines for waste sorting at the yard

We also contribute to a pioneering project with up-cycling of steel, to make new products out of maritime steel without melting.

Read more on: https://www.nordiccircles.com/upcycling

Sustainable Shipyards - its all about the future!

Ethics

As a trusted partner in the shipbuilding industry, Green Yard Kleven is committed to ensure that all parts of its business are conducted in accordance with applicable laws and in a ethically, sustainable and socially responsible way. Anyone employed at or acting on behalf of Green Yard Kleven shall follow these ethical guidelines. Consequently, Green Yard Kleven requires all of its suppliers and sub-suppliers to adhere to the same standard.

Please see attached Supplier declaration - Code of conduct required for suppliers to Kleven

Read about “Åpenhetsloven”, “The Transparancy Act” here.

HSE

Green Yard Kleven shall be a workplace where the employees thrive, where laws are adhered to, customers are satisfied, and the operation is profitable.

At Green Yard Kleven we are serious about health, safety and environment. Our HSE work shall promote:

  • a good work environment

  • preservation of the safety of our employees

  • the safeguarding against damages to health and the environment caused by products and work processes

  • prevention of pollution to the environment

 

Environment

In our guidelines for sustainable operations and development, Green Yard Kleven has established that:

  • We shall adhere to relevant requirements, both public and internal, regarding the environment.

  • We shall have clear environmental goals based on risk analyses, and programs for following up

  • We shall work continuously towards improving our environmental achievements

  • We shall direct targeted efforts to use the best environmental solutions for the vessels that we produce

  • We shall ensure that everyone in our organisation knows our environmental ambitions and how our business works towards controlling our environmental aspects

  • We shall actively communicate our environmental achievements to the public

 

Green Yard Kleven AS is certified to meet the international requirements in the ISM code ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.

 

Quality

We shall provide good quality work and be reliable. That are the core values of Green Yard Kleven.

  • Our aim is that our customers experience us as reliable, that we deliver good quality in a timely manner, that our products and services meet the customer’s demand and expectations

  • The quality of our work shall be a competitive advantage to us

  • We shall do things right the first time, and have effective systems for experience transfer

  • We shall systematically develop both the practical knowledge of the organization as well as formal/ theoretical competence

  • We shall actively work to improve our processes, services and products