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Since FY2021, we have been publishing ESG DATABOOK, which contains systematically summarized policies, systems, specific initiatives and relevant data related to “K” LINE Group’s environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) aspects.

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Introducing data related to "E (Environment)", "S (Society)" and "G (Governance)".

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Social Data（※This Data applies to Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. and its employees.）

Item					Unit	Fiscal year
Item					Unit			2021	2022	2023
Number of employees	Men	Onshore	Persons	372	369	395
				Seafarer	Persons	204	201	206
				Total	Persons	576	570	601
		Women	Onshore	Persons	213	228	240
				Seafarer	Persons	5	6	6
				Total	Persons	218	234	246
		Total	Onshore	Persons	585	597	635
				Seafarer	Persons	209	207	212
				Total	Persons	794	804	847
		Percentage of Women	Onshore	％	36.41	38.19	37.80
				Seafarer	％	2.39	2.90	2.83
				Total	％	27.46	29.10	29.04
Employees in management positions	Men			Persons	128	126	124
		Women			Persons	8	10	9
		Percentage of Women			％	5.88	7.35	6.77
Employees in management positions (general managers or higher)	Men			Persons	31	27	26
		Women			Persons	0	0	0
		Percentage of Women			％	0.00	0.00	0.00
Directors (including officers)	Men			Persons	25	26	28
		Women			Persons	2	2	2
		Percentage of Women			％	7.41	7.14	6.67
Recruitment of new graduates	Men	Onshore	Persons	17	19	26
				Seafarer	Persons	17	13	18
				Total	Persons	34	32	44
		Women	Onshore	Persons	8	7	15
				Seafarer	Persons	1	3	1
				Total	Persons	9	10	16
		Total	Onshore	Persons	25	26	41
				Seafarer	Persons	18	16	19
				Total	Persons	43	42	60
		Percentage of Women	Onshore	％	32.00	26.92	36.59
				Seafarer	％	5.56	18.75	5.26
				Total	％	20.93	23.81	26.67
Mid-career hires	Men	Onshore	Persons	0	7	13
				Seafarer	Persons	0	1	1
				Total	Persons	0	8	14
		Women	Onshore	Persons	0	5	3
				Seafarer	Persons	0	0	0
				Total	Persons	0	5	3
		Total	Onshore	Persons	0	12	16
				Seafarer	Persons	0	1	1
				Total	Persons	0	13	17
		Percentage of Women	Onshore	％	0.00	41.67	18.75
				Seafarer	％	0.00	0.00	0.00
				Total	％	0.00	38.46	17.65
Total number of newly hired employees	Men	Onshore	Persons	17	26	39
				Seafarer	Persons	17	14	19
				Total	Persons	34	40	58
		Women	Onshore	Persons	8	12	18
				Seafarer	Persons	1	3	1
				Total	Persons	9	15	19
		Total	Onshore	Persons	25	38	57
				Seafarer	Persons	18	17	20
				Total	Persons	43	55	77
		Percentage of Women	Onshore	％	32.00	31.58	31.58
				Seafarer	％	5.56	17.65	5.00
				Total	％	20.93	27.27	24.68
Percentage of employees with disabilities (*１)					％	2.09	1.71	2.11
Training	Cost of training per employee	Onshore	Yen	107,000	97,092	171,454
	Cost of training per employee			Seafarer	Yen	154,664	263,880	393,407
		Total amount of time spent on employee development training	Onshore	Hours	8,083	15,066	13,621
		Total amount of time spent on employee development training		Seafarer	Hours	13,512	20,080	32,344
		Average training days per employee	Onshore	Days	0.5	3.4	3.0
		Average training days per employee		Seafarer	Days	8	12	20
		Average training hours per employee	Onshore	Hours	13	24.1	20.9
		Average training hours per employee		Seafarer	Hours	64	96	160
Employees retiring	Reached retirement age	Onshore	Persons	9	11	4
				Seafarer	Persons	3	4	2
				Total	Persons	12	15	6
		Voluntary retirement	Onshore	Persons	12	7	12
				Seafarer	Persons	10	9	5
				Total	Persons	22	16	17
		Involuntary retirement	Onshore	Persons	5	6	7
				Seafarer	Persons	3	1	1
				Total	Persons	8	7	8
		Others (including those who became officers)	Onshore	Persons	2	7	2
				Seafarer	Persons	0	1	0
				Total	Persons	2	8	2
Turn Over Rate	Turnover rate of "K" LINE（*２）	-	%	4.58	4.75	3.28
		Ratio of voluntary resignations （*３）	-	%	2.40	1.65	1.69
		Rate of turnover within three years after hire（New graduates）（*4）	Onshore	%	1.39	0.00	2.17
				Seafarer	%	7.14	6.52	1.89
				Total	%	3.51	2.36	2.07
		Rate of turnover within three years after hire（New graduates and mid-career hires） (*5)	Onshore	%	2.44	0.00	2.50
				Seafarer	%	7.14	6.38	1.82
				Total	%	4.03	2.13	2.29
		Turnover rate of employees aged 30 or younger			%	5.08	2.53	3.22
Average years employed （*６）	Men			Years	15.21	14.92	14.58
Average years employed （*６）		Women			Years	14.17	13.77	13.52
Labor union participation rate			Onshore	%	76.20	75.90	76.54
Labor union participation rate				Seafarer	%	75.80	74.90	74.16
Gender pay gap (*7)	All employees			%	-	57.7	59.0
		Full-time employees			%	-	58.9	60.7
		Part-time employees			%	-	44.5	41.0

These figures conform to the Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities. According to the Act, a 90% exclusion rate applies to and is calculated for seafarers (excluding those on duty onshore).
Calculation method: Number of employees who resigned in each fiscal year / Total number of long-term employees at the end of each fiscal year
Calculation method: Number of employees who resigned voluntarily in each fiscal year / Total number of long-term employees at the end of each fiscal year
Calculation method: Number of new graduates employees hired in the previous three fiscal years who resigned in each fiscal year / Number of new graduates employees hired in the previous three fiscal years
Calculation method: Number of new graduates and mid-career employees hired in the previous three fiscal years who resigned in each fiscal year / Number of new graduates and mid-career employees hired in the previous three fiscal years
The scope of reporting covers “K” LINE’s permanent employees
Calculation method: Average annual salary for women / Average annual salary for men

Item	Unit	Fiscal year						Fiscal year	Fiscal year	Fiscal year	Fiscal year	Fiscal year
				2021			2022			2023
				Onshore	Seafarer	Onshore	Seafarer	Onshore	Seafarer
Number of occupational accidents (*7)	Cases	0	0	0	1	0	1
Number of fatal occupational accidents	Cases	0	0	0	0	0	0
Number of accidents requiring leave(*8)	Cases	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lost time incident rate (LTIR) (*9)	-	0	0	0	0	0	0

7. Excludes accidents while commuting
8. Number of injuries/illnesses caused by occupational accidents and requiring one or more days of leave
9. Accidents that result in time off work beyond the day or shift that the injuries or illnesses occurred / 1 million total working hour ratio

Item	Unit	Fiscal year			Fiscal year	Fiscal year
Item	Unit			2021	2022	2023
Percentage of childcare leave for women	%	100	100	100
Percentage of childcare leave for men *	%	-	88.5	77.8
Percentage of employees returning to work after using the childcare leave system	%	100	100	100
Retention rate after using the childcare leave system	%	100	100	100
Number of women in managerial roles	Persons	8	10	9
Percentage of employees in management positions who are women	%	5.88	7.35	6.77
Percentage of employees in leadership positions who are women	Persons	25	20	21
Percentage of women in leadership roles	%	7.60	7.25	7.64
Percentage of employees with disabilities	%	2.09	1.71	2.11

* Including paternity leave. Mandatory disclosure from FY2022

Crew members by nationality	Officers		Officers	Ratings		Ratings	Total	Total
	Number of seats allocated (people)	Percentage (%)	Number of seats allocated (people)	Percentage (%)	Number of seats allocated (people)	Percentage (%)
Japan	167	6.5	0	0.0	167	2.6
Philippines	1,257	48.7	3,382	85.7	4,639	71.1
India	282	10.9	150	3.8	432	6.6
Bangladesh	152	5.9	104	2.6	256	3.9
China	36	1.4	71	1.8	107	1.6
Europe	644	24.9	158	4.0	802	12.3
Southeast Asia	44	1.7	81	2.1	125	1.9
Total	2,582	100	3,946	100	6,528	100

(As of March 31, 2024)

Field	Item	Unit	Fiscal year			Fiscal year	Fiscal year
Field	Item	Unit	Field	Item	Unit	2021	2022	2023
Social contribution	Disaster relief donations	¥10,000	200	300	1000
	Social contribution	Lunchtime volunteers（*10）	Persons	（*11）	11	71
	Social contribution	Volunteer leave	Persons	0	0	0
	Social contribution	Free transportation	Times	1	0	0

10. Includes officers and employees of Group companies

11. Postponed to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic

(millions of yen)

Field	Item	Fiscal year
Field	Item			2021	2022	2023
Expenditure on Trade Associations and Social Contributions	Political associations	3.1	3.3	3.3
		Economic associations	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Other associations	7.4	7.5	8.0
		Social contributions（donations）	6.5（6.5）	9.2（9.2）	14.8（14.8）
		Total	17.0	20.0	26.1

Field	Item	Unit	Fiscal year			Fiscal year	Fiscal year
Field	Item	Unit	Field	Item	Unit	2021	2022	2023
IR activities	Domestic IR and SR (shareholder relations) (*12）	Companies (persons)	145(223)	110（121）	130（143）
	IR activities	Overseas IR and SR（*12）	Companies (persons)	27（38）	135（175）	175（209）
	IR activities	Small meetings	Companies (persons)	90（103）	96（101）	64（66）
	IR activities	Business briefings and site tours	Times	2	0	2
	IR activities	IR for private investors（*13）	Times	2	2	2

12. Includes ESG Meeting as of FY2020
13. Includes an online session and a session for the person in charge of sales in securities

Number of Major Accidents （*14）

Year	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Cases	1	0	0	0	0

14. Safety in navigation and cargo operations is an immutable mission in running a shipping business. There has been one oil spill incident in the last five years, but appropriate measures were taken to minimize the damage.

Average Deficiencies per Port State Controls (PSCs)（*15）

Port State Control (PSC) is a safety inspection of foreign ships conducted by port states to verify that the condition of the ship complies with the requirements of international regulations.

The number of deficiencies with “K” LINE Group vessels per PSCs is well below the average number of deficiencies in the main regions.

15. The scope of this data is "K" LINE's scope of consolidation, which corresponds to 100% sales.

* TOKYO MOU: PSC organization in Asia-Pacific region

* PARIS MOU: PSC organization in European and North Atlantic region

Governance Data (This data applies to Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.)

Field	Item	Breakdown	Unit	Fiscal year			Fiscal year
Field	Item	Breakdown	Unit	Field	Item	Breakdown	Unit	2021	2022	2023
Governance	Board of Directors	Number of directors	Persons	10	9	9
		Governance	Board of Directors	Men	Persons	9	8	8
		Governance	Board of Directors	Women	Persons	1	1	1
		Governance	Board of Directors	Ratio of women	％	10	11	11
		Governance	Board of Directors	Number of outside directors	Persons	4	4	5
		Governance	Board of Directors	Ratio of outside directors	％	40	44	56
		Governance	Board of Directors	Average age of directors	Years	62.3	62.0	61
		Governance	Board of Directors	Age of youngest director	Years	44	45	43
		Governance	Board of Directors	Age of oldest director	Years	73	74	75
		Governance	Board of Directors	Number of meetings held	Times	18	19	19
		Governance	Board of Directors	Average attendance ratio	％	100.0	99.0	100.0
	Governance	Audit & Supervisory Board	Number of members	Persons	4	4	4
	Governance		Audit & Supervisory Board	Men	Persons	3	3	3
	Governance		Audit & Supervisory Board	Women	Persons	1	1	1
	Governance		Audit & Supervisory Board	Ratio of women	％	25	25	25
	Governance		Audit & Supervisory Board	Number of outside members	Persons	2	2	2
	Governance		Audit & Supervisory Board	Ratio of outside members	％	50	50	50
	Governance		Audit & Supervisory Board	Number of meetings held	Times	16	15	14
	Governance	Nomination Advisory Committee	Number of members	Persons	4	4	5
	Governance		Nomination Advisory Committee	Number of outside members	Persons	3	3	4
	Governance		Nomination Advisory Committee	Ratio of outside members	％	75	75	80
	Governance		Nomination Advisory Committee	Number of meetings held	Times	8	14	9
	Governance	Remuneration Advisory Committee	Number of members	Persons	4	4	5
	Governance		Remuneration Advisory Committee	Number of outside members	Persons	3	3	4
	Governance		Remuneration Advisory Committee	Ratio of outside members	％	75	75	80
	Governance		Remuneration Advisory Committee	Number of meetings held	Times	6	9	3
	Governance	Remuneration	Total remuneration paid to directors (number of payees)*	¥ million (persons)	340(10)	906(10)	732(11)
	Governance	Remuneration	Remuneration	Total remuneration paid to Audit & Supervisory Board members (number of payees)*	¥ million (persons)	81(5)	80(4)	80(5)

* Total remuneration paid (number of payees) includes directors and Audit & Supervisory Board members who have resigned during the fiscal year (at the General Meeting of Shareholders).

Governance Data (As of June 21, 2024)

Title

Name

Gender

Independence

Tenure (years)

Board meeting attendance rate (FY2023)

Executive officer

Nomination Advisory Committee member

Remuneration Advisory Committee member

Important concurrent positions

Board of Directors

Representative Director, President & CEO

Yukikazu Myochin

Male

100%

○

Yes

Representative Director

Kazuhiko Harigai

Male

100%

○

Director

Noriaki Yamaga

Male

ー

○

Outside Director

Keiji Yamada

Male

Yes

100%

○

Yes

Outside Director

Ryuhei Uchida

Male

100%

Yes

Outside Director

Koji Kotaka

Male

Yes

100%

○

Yes

Outside Director

Hiroyuki Maki

Male

Yes

100%

○

Yes

Outside Director

Takako Masai

Female

Yes

ー

○

Yes

Audit & Supervisory Board

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Kunihiko Arai

Male

100%

Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Makoto Arai

Male

100%

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Atsumi Harasawa

Female

Yes

100%

Yes

Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member

Shinsuke Kubo

Male

Yes

95%

Yes

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Average Deficiencies per Port State Controls (PSCs)（*15）

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