Port Green Guide

ESPO’s 2021 Green Guide provides hands-on guidance and advice for ports on how to clean up their own activities, whilst helping facilitate the wider port area and local community to go green.

“Ports in Europe all have greening on top of their agenda, whatever their size, the market they serve, their geographical situation or their governance,” said Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO Secretary General.

“With this 2021 Green Guide we respond to these changes and aim to guide ports on their journey towards a greener future, each at their pace and with their tools, but all with the same level of ambition.”

Green agenda

Ms Ryckbost said that in the future ports will increasingly be asked to address unfamiliar and novel issues as part of the transition to a greener future.

“Exchanging experiences, identifying good practices, and learning from each other is more important to ports than it has ever before,” she said.

The ESPO Green Guide serves many aims.

It’s a tool for port authorities and terminal operators but it’s also intended to help other stakeholders and policy makers better understand green port pathways.

The guide is a “manual” for greening the port and also has an extensive dedicated database of green practices provided by European ports

Since its creation in 1993, ESPO has been a driving force behind significant improvements in the field of environmental management. The ESPO Environmental Code of Practice (1994) was the first official ESPO policy document, which will publish its latest update this summer.

The new ESPO Green Guide 2021 will be available soon.