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 of Vancouver – International Collaboration on Vessel Emissions Reduction

MIT Panama S.A. – Gender Equity Initiatives

Port of Guangzhou – Onshore Power Supply Project

Partner projects

IAPH – Onshore Power Supply

ESPO – Green Guide

PIANC – Sustainable Ports Guide

News

ICHCA and IAPH sign MoU in further boost for WPSP

The International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and ICHCA (International Cargo Handling Coordination Association) signed on 13 June a memorandum of understanding to pursue projects of mutual interest, at the Terminal Operators Conference (TOC 2018)...

WPSP presented in Baltimore, Washington DC, Antwerp and Baku

WPSP coordinator Patrick Verhoeven was invited to present the World Ports Sustainability Program at the first GreenPort America Congress, which was held in Baltimore on 16 and 17 May. The conference built on the successful GreenPort...