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

Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – Clean Air Action Plan 2017

Fremantle Ports – Fairy Tern Conservation Sanctuary

Ports of Stockholm – Carbon footprint, energy optimization and sustainability reporting

Partner projects

IAPH – Environmental Ship Index

ESPO – EcoPorts

AIVP -Plan the city with the port; guide of good practices

News

International Taskforce mobilised to optimize port calls using existing standards

Port Authorities team up with maritime, and offshore industry partners to tackle a challenge that has existed since the birth of shipping over five centuries ago – how to optimise the port call process using structured master and event data.