The IAPH 2022 Sustainability Awards took place during the official gala dinner of the IAPH World Ports Conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith projects from 26 different countries this year, we are delighted to see that such a diverse group of winners have been selected from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania by the jury and voters,\u201d said Antonis Michail, IAPH technical director.<\/p>\n
Groundbreaking initiatives<\/strong><\/p>\n The first winner was DP World Posorja (DPWP), which as part of its \u201cOur World, Our Future\u201d strategy, began a local community Mangrove Plantation Program on 65 hectares with the Calisur Foundation in Guayas province, Puna Island.<\/p>\n This programme aims to create blue carbon ecosystems through mangroves in Ecuador with the aim of capture CO2 emissions and minimising the operator\u2019s environmental impact. <\/p>\n The EU-funded SeaClear-Project (2020-2023) took away an award for its work on developing an efficient, cost-effective and innovative solution for the detection and collection of marine debris on the seabed using autonomous robots.<\/p>\n Other winners included the World Ports Sustainability Program PASSport solution for safety and security in ports, Northport Malaysia\u2019s strategic roadmap to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) standards, the Solomon Islands Ports Authority\u2019s renewable energy project for rural communities and the EU funded LIVING PORTS project at the Port of Vigo, which aims to shift away from obsolete \u201cgrey\u201d construction and towards nature-inclusive infrastructure.<\/p>\n The Akiyama Award, which goes to the highest placed IAPH Sustainability Awards finalist runner-up from a developing country, went to Fiji Ports Corporation Limited, which is focusing on alleviating climate impacts through its Green Port Initiative by 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The winners of the IAPH 2022 Sustainability Awards included a blue carbon ecosystem strategy and a marine debris collection project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[221,485,484],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-iaph","tag-projects","tag-sustainability-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","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=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}