NOL consists of global businesses providing transportation and logistics services that connect continents, linking the global community.

We reach out to the global community through our support of charitable initiatives in all regions where we do business, making a difference in the lives of people from all corners of the globe.

In 2006, the NOL Group made significant contributions to a variety of community groups and projects. Through a structured annual community relations program, we provide support for initiatives across all the regions where we do business.

REACHING OUT TO OUR REGIONS

The NOL Group offices around the world reached out to their communities to meet local needs throughout 2006.

Since 2000, we have been a supporter of the “Helmets for Kids” program, which provides protective helmets and road safety education for children across Vietnam, where traffic accidents and serious head injuries involving bike riders are common.
In Greater China, we provided funding for a program to provide meals for children from low-income aboriginal families in Hua Lien, on the eastern coast of Taiwan; SYVA Poverty Support in Yunan Province; and supported the “China – Half the Sky” program which delivers education programs to orphanages.

Our Group has provided sponsorship and support for a diverse range of other activities and organisations around the world, including the Red Cross Society in Japan and a Refugee Camp Club in Jordan.

In Singapore, the NOL Group continued to support the National Day Parade, the Singapore Arts Festival and Sailability Singapore, which encourages people with disabilities to enjoy the sport of sailing. We have financially supported Sailability since its inception in 2001, and it is one of many programs which our people actively support as volunteers.

In the US, we supported a wide range of organisations in our local communities. APL supports the Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors, which operates in the San Francisco-Oakland area, Habitat for Humanity East Bay which, builds affordable housing for disadvantaged members of the community, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank, which provides nourishment for 120,000 low-income children and adults each month.

In addition, APL has supported the Oakland Children’s Hospital and Research Center as well as the Bay Area Crisis Nursery, which aims to prevent child abuse and neglect by providing a temporary home for children whose parents are going through a stressful time such as a layoff or marital separation.

We strive to support a range of causes globally, spanning services for the disabled and disadvantaged, support for corporate citizenship activities and youth initiatives.

Apart from our financial support for these groups, we also provide opportunities for employees to get involved in voluntary programs.

TEAMWORK AT ITS BEST

In 2006, the NOL Group continued to make a significant contribution to the victims of the 2005 tsunami in the Aceh province of Indonesia.

NOL donated a fishing vessel to a cooperative of villagers. The vessel is called “Nikmat Neptune”, the word “Nikmat” meaning “gift, blessing, satisfaction and enjoyment” in Bahasa Indonesian. NOL also provided a two-week training program, teaching crew members how to operate, maintain and build their own traditional boats.

In addition, NOL donated shipping containers which were converted into kindergarten classrooms for young children and also as a base for a women’s self-help group called Geubri Na. A team of NOL volunteers from Singapore and Indonesia travelled to Meulaboh to spend six days painting and decorating the containers to prepare them for use.

The monetary value of the support provided for these initiatives in 2006 was about US$200,000 but the positive impact on people’s lives in Meulaboh is immeasurable.

NOL FELLOWSHIP: FOSTERING THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

In 2006 NOL contributed S$10 million to the NOL Fellowship, an initiative led by the National University of Singapore (NUS), to support multi-disciplinary, applied research at centres of excellence in universities and research institutes internationally.

With a matching contribution from Singapore’s Ministry of Education/NUS, these funds will seed the development of high-quality research programs on important global transportation and logistics issues, including the impact of deregulation and globalisation.

The Fellowship aims to bring together industry and academia to enhance knowledge and expertise in global cargo transportation and logistics, benefiting the industry on a global scale.

This initiative reflects NOL’s ongoing commitment to investing in the development of the innovative new supply chain solutions which will transform the global logistics industry over the next decade, for the benefit of our customers.

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