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New global ISO-standard for ship-shore data exchange

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IAPH looks to young talent from Scotland and South Africa to boost work with IMO, and on World Ports Sustainability Program

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Dutch Seaports – Applying the OECD Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct

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Port of Taipei – Eco-resilient Future

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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

Port of Rotterdam – PortXchange Pronto

Port of Gothenburg – Frontrunner on Onshore Power Supply for vessels

Fremantle Ports – Fairy Tern Conservation Sanctuary

Partner projects

IAPH – Environmental Ship Index

IAPH – Clean Marine Fuels

ESPO – Green Guide

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IAPH looks to young talent from Scotland and South Africa to boost work with IMO, and on World Ports Sustainability Program

Rhona Macdonald to focus on IAPH’s policy and project work with IMO in London; Sisangile Nduna to work on port barometer metrics and World Ports Sustainability Program governance agenda

IMO and Singapore to offer pilot Single Window for Facilitation of Trade (SWiFT) Project to medium-sized port

IAPH supports this next step in capacity building following global port FAL survey and joint report with World Bank on accelerating digitalization in the maritime transport chain

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New global ISO-standard for ship-shore data exchange

Data handshake breakthrough : public-private players accept maritime NGOs’ invitation to co-create global digital ISO standard for the exchange of administrative and operational data