GRI reporting for maritime, without the spreadsheets

Who this is for

• Companies that need a broader, stakeholder-recognised sustainability report beyond a simpler ESG starting point
• Ship owners and managers fielding ESG questions from banks, investors and charterers
• Teams that need ESG data, assumptions and reporting history to be easier to review, reuse and repeat each year

A recognised reporting standard

GRI (the Global Reporting Initiative) is the world's most widely used sustainability reporting standard. It gives you a common language to report environmental, social and governance impacts in a way stakeholders already understand and can compare across companies. It's voluntary, but in practice it has become the baseline expectation for credible disclosure.

What GRI reporting involves

• Reporting against GRI's Universal Standards, plus the topic standards relevant to your operations (emissions, energy, occupational health and safety, anti-corruption, and more)
• Identifying your material topics: the impacts that matter most to your business and stakeholders
• Disclosing consistent, comparable data year over year, with the management approach behind it

Why maritime companies use GRI

There is no maritime-specific GRI Sector Standard, so maritime companies usually report against the Universal Standards and relevant Topic Standards. For ship owners and managers, the work is to connect the right sustainability topics with fleet and company data, from fuel, emissions and energy use to safety, workforce and governance, and present it in a format stakeholders can review and trust.

Recognised by stakeholders
GRI gives investors, lenders, charterers and partners a familiar basis for reviewing sustainability information.

Useful in commercial conversations
A GRI-aligned report can support ESG questions in financing, tender, customer and charterer processes.

Reusable beyond one report
The same data, sources and methodology can support future reporting cycles and other ESG requests, including CSRD/ESRS preparation where relevant.

How Metizoft supports GRI reporting

As a certified GRI solution, Metizoft helps you structure, collect, document and present ESG data in line with the GRI Standards. The platform brings indicators, reporting structures, methodology, documentation and reporting outputs into one process, making it easier to build a professional and verifiable reporting basis.

• Work from a GRI reporting structure
  Use templates and reporting structures based on the GRI Standards, with an overview of relevant topics, indicators and requirements.
• Collect quantitative and qualitative ESG data
  Gather the information needed from across the organisation, fleet and relevant systems instead of rebuilding the process manually each reporting cycle.
• Document methodology and boundaries
  Keep track of sources, methodological choices, reporting boundaries, assumptions and assessments behind the data.
• Improve traceability and quality assurance
  Bring data, documentation and review into one platform so the reporting process is easier to check, explain and repeat.
• Present and reuse reporting data
  Use ESG data in tables, reporting materials and visual overviews, and reuse it across years, entities and other reporting needs.