{"id":10530,"date":"2013-06-26T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2013\/06\/26\/environmental-excellence-award\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:59:39","slug":"environmental-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/environmental-excellence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental excellence award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union\u2019s Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) was created in 1995 as a tool for industrial companies to use to evaluate their environmental actions in a standardised way and implement ways of improving them.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Mu\u00f1oz, Quality Manager at Grup Mar\u00edtim TCB and designated assessor, said: \u201cAchieving EMAS certification means having a well-defined environmental policy and an environmental management system that we report on periodically. There is no doubt that this seal of approval affects our future action as it represents a commitment to the development of actions and environmental evaluations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reducing energy consumption and proper waste treatment are among TCG\u2019s main goals.<\/p>\n<p>As Tom\u00e1s Palacios, General Director of the Terminal de Contenedores de Gij\u00f3n, explained, \u201cEMAS certification involves both a recognition and a driver to continue to optimise our environmental management, which is a structural part of TCG and another component in the improvement of our services at the Muelle de la Osa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the Terminal de Contenedores de Barcelona (TCB) became the first container company in Spain to receive EMAS certification, followed by the Valencian branch of the holding company, TCV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grup TCB\u2019s Terminal de Contenedores de Gij\u00f3n (TCG) has been awarded for environmental excellence following an independent audit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}