{"id":1226,"date":"2020-11-18T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2020\/11\/18\/best-green-seaport-award-for-french-port\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:49:32","slug":"best-green-seaport-award-for-french-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/best-green-seaport-award-for-french-port\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Best Green Seaport\u2019 award for French port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Cargo News magazine, Asia&#8217;s leading professional press publication, awarded the \u2018Best Green Seaport\u2019 to HAROPA on behalf of the magazine&#8217;s 15,000 readers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This trophy illustrates recognition of our environmental policy. It proves that we can both be the premier French port complex and ensure the respectful development of our regions and ecosystems&#8221;, says Laurent Foloppe, HAROPA\u2019s commercial and marketing director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental commitment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To win the award, HAROPA was up against some tough competition from the ports of Hamburg, Long Beach and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The readers of Asia Cargo News magazine include Asian importers\/exporters, logisticians, freight forwarders and shipping companies.<\/p>\n<p>HAROPA said its environmental commitment is based around the development of mass modes and the encouragement of effective initiatives in the fight against global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Its key objectives contained within its environmental policy include commitments to reduce the carbon footprint related to the port\u2019s activities and protecting the port ecosystem; helping customers decarbonise and research, work and environmental certification procedures.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth &#8216;Best Green Seaport&#8217; trophy awarded to ports of the Seine axis, underlining HAROPA\u2019s strong commitment to the environment.<\/p>\n<p>HAROPA is a member of the Getting To Zero coalition, an organisation that supports the decarbonisation of the maritime industry, alongside companies from shipping, energy, infrastructure and finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French port HAROPA has won a press award for its industry leading approach to environmental policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1226","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\/1226","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=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}