Demonstrating global leadership of ports in contributing to Sustainable Development

Ports must respond to worldwide, regional and local challenges, such as climate change, mobility, digitalisation, migration and social integration.

Our mission

The World Ports Sustainability Program aims to demonstrate global leadership of ports in contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. The program wants to empower port community actors worldwide to engage with business, governmental and societal stakeholders in creating sustainable added value for the local communities and wider regions in which their ports are embedded.

Ports are the connecting nodes of global trade and world economy. There is no way that we can move this world towards sustainability without ports.
Christiana Figueres – Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

By creating the World Ports Sustainability Program today, the global port sector is committing itself to making an active contribution to the sustainable future that we all want and need.
Kitack Lim – IMO Secretary General

WPSP is a very concrete effort to show global leadership of ports worldwide in integrating sustainability into their policies, using the SDGs as their baseline.
Her Majesty the Queen of Belgium

Areas of interest

Climate and Energy

Community outreach and port-city dialogue

Governance and Ethics

Logistics and transportation of Container Cargo ship and Cargo plane with working crane bridge in shipyard at sunrise, logistic import export and transport industry background, Aerial view from drone

Resilient Infrastructure

Safety and Security

Portfolio

Port projects

Port Network Authority of the North Tyrrhenian Sea – The Livorno “Public debate”

Port of Guangzhou – Onshore Power Supply Project

Port of Amsterdam – MISA software application

Partner projects

AIVP – Port Centre Network

ESPO – Code of Good Practices for Cruise and Ferry Ports

AIVP – Port-City Governance publication

News

Number of women occupying management roles reaches 41% at Panama’s Manzanillo International Terminal

Panamanian terminal operator MIT has more than doubled its percentage of women managers from six senior managers in 2003 to thirteen today.

Roundtable of Port Organisations to pool resources and prioritise efforts on meeting IMO regulations on safety, environment and operations

New Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) also joins Roundtable meeting in London to discuss cooperation throughout the entire seaborne supply chain.