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Full agenda and registration opens for IAPH 2020 World Ports Conference

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Port projects

Port of Long Beach – C-PORT Zero Emissions Demonstration Project

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Port projects

Port of San Diego – Environmental Innovation through Blue Economy Incubator Program

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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

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Areas of interest

Climate and Energy

Community outreach and port-city dialogue

Governance and Ethics

Resilient Infrastructure

Safety and Security

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Portfolio

Port projects

Abu Dhabi Ports – mPCS Project

Port of Hamburg – 5G-MoNArch

Niedersachsen Ports – WASh2Emden project

Partner projects

AIVP – Port-City Governance publication

ESPO – Code of Good Practices for Cruise and Ferry Ports

ESPO – EcoPorts

Stories

IAPH Women in Ports Mentoring Program now extended to female Harbour Masters

IHMA joins as new partner of the World Ports Sustainability Program

Climate change port survey participants confirm increase in frequency and severity of extreme weather events

NaCC Partnership established by PIANC to close survey participation in mid-December, with full results to be released at the #IAPH2020 in Antwerp in March

News

“Growing the economy, whilst sustaining the ecology” – IAPH partners with PortXL to connect innovators with global ports

IAPH signs agreement with PortXL, opening up a global portfolio of port and maritime start-up innovators to the World Ports Sustainability Program. PortXL has already supported more than 72 start-up and scale-up innovators to engage in...

IAPH Clean Marine Fuels Working Group and Environmental Ship Index team take next steps forward in Yokohama

IAPH working groups on the Environmental Ship Index and Clean Marine Fuels met this week in Japan to discuss new stages for their respective solutions