Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Navi Mumbai pledged its intent to continue greening its operations on World Environment Day (5 June). JNPT carried out a tree plantation drive, organised waste management training and environmental awareness training.<\/p>\n
Shri Sanjay Sethi, IAS, Chairman, JNPT, said, \u201cJNPT constantly looks for eco\u2013friendly options, in the port\u2019s endeavor to be a Green Port. It is important for every business house to be aware of their duties towards the environment. I urge and encourage all our employees and stakeholders to work hand-in-hand towards the goal of keeping JNPT a socially conscious organization, committed to the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
As part of the Environment Day, JNPT carried out a plantation drive which resulted in 500 tree saplings being planted.<\/p>\n
The port also organized solid waste management awareness training for stakeholders of local communities at JNPT\u2019s solid waste facility.<\/p>\n
Additionally, environmental awareness training session was organised for JNPT employees, terminal operators, and tank farm operators through IIT Madras.<\/p>\n
Green initiaitves<\/strong><\/p>\n JNPT has initiated various environmental upgrades and green port initiatives including a sewage treatment plant, shore power supply to tugs\/port crafts, a continuous ambient air quality monitoring station, a solid waste management facility, an E-RTGC and oil spill response (OSR) facilities.<\/p>\n Solar panels generating around 822KW have been installed on the rooftops of the public buildings of JNPT and LED lights are now used throughout the port to lower its energy consumption and decrease its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n JNPT is also conducting a sustainability study through TERI for the communication of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals.<\/p>\n In addition, the port also regularly conducts seminars and knowledge sessions to raise awareness on various aspects of quality and health of ports where the environment plays a critical role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" World Environment Day has seen one Indian port up its sustainability efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","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=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}