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 Antwerp – CLINSH project

Port of Amsterdam – Integrated Green Energy Solutions (IGES)

Port of Antwerp – PIN Project

Partner projects

PIANC – Navigating a Changing Climate

AIVP – Port Centre Network

ESPO – Societal Integration initiatives

News

Harboring hackathons to break digital barriers to entry and improve trade and mobility

How port authorities are using a Hakathon to fast track innovations in data collaboration to improve trade and mobility

Environmental Ship Index further expands its user base to 7000 vessels with plan for major upgrade

Following the launch of the World Ports Sustainability Program earlier in March this year, the IAPH working group focussed on the further development of the ESI met in Marseilles in June and agreed to invest in upgrading the current IT system. This includes the current database of registered vessels as well as the online portal itself.