CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

At GAC Pindar, we believe in doing the right thing. We have a history of supporting the sport of sailing as well as individuals within it who set out to achieve what may at first seem inaccessible and unachievable. We encourage everyone who works under the GAC Pindar banner to have a strong awareness of the environment and community that is around us. We remain an intrinsic part of the industries we serve and strive to improve them in everything we do.

#Cleanseas

Inspired by the Volvo Ocean Race’s first Ocean Summit in Alicante in October 2018, GAC Pindar led the way to GAC UK signing the United Nations Environment #CleanSeas initiative committing to reduce plastic and other waste. #CleanSeas encourages companies, individuals, governments and not-for-profit organisations to commit to taking pledges, which include implementing measurable actions to reduce single use plastic waste and inspiring staff, stakeholders and suppliers to do likewise.

Since then, GAC UK has significantly reduced single-use plastics in its offices and every GAC company in Europe has signed up to the pledge. Many beach cleans have been carried out by companies and individuals on an annual basis. GAC Pindar joined visiting pro sailors and The Final Straw Solent in the summer of 2019 to clean-up an inner city beach in Southampton, with the aim of formulating a longer-term plan for the site.

Mindful

GAC UK’s three-year support of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution ended in 2019 with a grand total of £75,000 raised for the charity through financial donations and staff fundraising initiatives. In 2020, Mind and SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) were named as GAC UK’s designated charities, nominated by colleagues from our 23 offices up and down the country. This coincided with an inter-company Mental Health Matters Campaign, highlighting the importance of a corporate culture in which mental health problems are recognised and can be discussed openly.

Sailing for all

In 2017, GAC Pindar became an official partner to World Sailing, providing marine logistics services to improve planning and provide cost savings to World Sailing, Member National Authorities (MNAs) and individual sailors. That partnership continues as we join World Sailing’s campaign to Back the Bid and see sailing reinstated to the Paralympic Games in LA 2028.

As part of its strategic plan, World Sailing aims to increase worldwide participation in the Para World Events to 40 nations across four continents. Since 2017, we have provided selected freight services free of charge or at significantly reduced rates to allow as many member nations to attend these events as possible. We continue to source cost-effective logistics solutions across World Sailing’s portfolio of events with further financial support put back into the sport, to be distributed by World Sailing to areas of most need.

MARS25 – going beyond for people and planet

In March 2021, GAC UK launched its sustainability programme, MARS25 with our first target date of 2025 encouraging evidenced behavioural change in line with the actions outlined in the strategy, for the improved well-being of our people, reducing our impact on the planet and influencing others to do the same. We will MEASURE, take ACTION and continuously REVIEW our objectives to achieve the SUCCESS of our ten-year programme. Aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) our sustainability objectives form the framework of our ISO 26000 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) management system.

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“Working in partnership with GAC allowed us to deliver our cars into China safely and on time. Communication was excellent and allowed us to track every step of the journey. Thanks to the support of GAC and their local teams we overcame many challenges and a grateful to them for helping to make the Dragon Challenge the huge success it has been.”

Rebecca Albright, Marketing Communications Fleet Manager at Spark44

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“We were interested in the shipping options provided by GAC Pindar as they remain neutral agents, going out to the many transportation providers in the industry. Their price was competitive and they demonstrated great care and attention throughout the whole process. We knew we were getting a great service from one of the best delivery teams in the business.”

Franco Niggeler, Kuka 3 owner

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“GAC Pindar provided the French Sailing Team with competitive rates and the whole process went extremely smoothly: bringing together needs of other sailing federations and completing operations without any delays. I strongly advise others that they consider GAC Pindar."

Lionel Cottin,
Fédération Française de Voile

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“We had great support from the team from GAC during the delivery of the Volvo Ocean Race. With a very tight schedule and limited space in the race-village to handle material, the containers and machinery need to be delivered exactly on time - GAC managed this challenge in an excellent way.”

Joakim Valfridsson
Director of production, Realise Communication Sweden AB for Volvo Pavilion build, VOR 17-18

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“GAC looked after EKS’ logistics requirements on the FIA WRX championship for 2 years. During this time, we found them to be helpful, knowledgeable, passionate and professional. From the works supercars to any small part, they regarded them with equal importance. We highly recommend them in the pressured world of motorsports logistics”.

Klas Boman, CEO EKS team, FIA WRX

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Testimonials

Mitch Booth

“GAC Pindar is known worldwide for their involvement in the sport of sailing with a deep understanding of yachts and equipment. They are the natural choice when it comes to shipping sailboats and provided us with the perfect solution to deliver Comanche to Europe”

Mitch Booth

Skipper, SY Comanche

GC32 Class Manager

“We are very happy to be able to count on GAC Pindar as the official shipping and logistics provider of the GC32 Racing Tour. They provide us and our participating teams with a solid, professional and reliable logistic service.”

Christian Scherrer

GC32 Class Manager

CEO EKS team, FIA WRX

“GAC looked after EKS’ logistics requirements on the FIA WRX championship for 2 years. During this time, we found them to be helpful, knowledgeable, passionate and professional. From the works supercars to any small part, they regarded them with equal importance. We highly recommend them in the pressured world of motorsports logistics”.

Klas Boman

CEO EKS team, FIA WRX

Marketing Communications Fleet Manager at Spark44

“Working in partnership with GAC allowed us to deliver our cars into China safely and on time. Communication was excellent and allowed us to track every step of the journey. Thanks to the support of GAC and their local teams we overcame many challenges and a grateful to them for helping to make the Dragon Challenge the huge success it has been.”

Rebecca Albright

Marketing Communications Fleet Manager at Spark44

Director of production, Realise Communication Sweden AB for Volvo Pavilion build, VOR 17-18

“We had great support from the team from GAC during the delivery of the Volvo Ocean Race. With a very tight schedule and limited space in the race-village to handle material, the containers and machinery need to be delivered exactly on time – GAC managed this challenge in an excellent way.”

Joakim Valfridsson

Director of production, Realise Communication Sweden AB for Volvo Pavilion build, VOR 17-18

Skipper – Concise 10, MOD70

“We have highlighted the vessel monitoring service to our insurance provider which has recognised it as a solid addition to our crisis management planning. Beyond this, the support and logistics services provided by GAC Pindar, especially while we are at sea, far surpass anything else on offer in the market today.”

Ned Collier Wakefield

Skipper – Concise 10, MOD70

Fédération Française de Voile

“GAC Pindar provided the French Sailing Team with competitive rates and the whole process went extremely smoothly: bringing together needs of other sailing federations and completing operations without any delays. I strongly advise others that they consider GAC Pindar.”

Lionel Cottin

Fédération Française de Voile

8th Dimension Performance Sailing

“I set high targets with our project to have eight Dragons sailing around Europe for charters, clinics and private events. For us, the fact that we could count on GAC Pindar’s experience and capacity to start moving our boats was a key element and allowed us to focus on the commercial and financial side of our start-up company. The process of delivering our boats from the UK to Portugal was very smooth and accurate, allowing us to start with our schedule with no issues. We are looking forward to continuing to work with GAC Pindar in the years to come and provide quality sailing to the lovers of our sport.”

Pedro Andrade

8th Dimension Performance Sailing

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