{"id":8605,"date":"2012-09-18T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/09\/18\/greenport-congress-is-fast-approaching\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:43:54","slug":"greenport-congress-is-fast-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/greenport-congress-is-fast-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"GreenPort Congress is fast approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegates at the conference will hear presentations keynote speakers from the European Commission, Janez Poto\u010dnik and Dimitrios Theologitis, on the most recent policies and issues currently affecting marine ports and terminals.<\/p>\n<p>The programme at the 7th GreenPort Congress also includes a number of presentations from the world\u2019s most significant port authorities, terminal operators, shipping lines, classification societies, manufacturers and consultants. Concerns and problems under the spotlight, among others, include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 The use of sustainable equipment in green terminals<br \/>\u00b7 Ship waste<br \/>\u00b7 Analysis of options for Onshore Power Supply (OPS)<br \/>\u00b7 Treatment of ballast water<br \/>\u00b7 Reducing CO2 emissions<br \/>\u00b7 Use of LED lighting in ports and terminals<br \/>\u00b7 Enhancing the relationship between the port and the city<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s conference will be hosted by the Marseille Fos Port Authority and supported by ESPO, EFIP, ECOPORTS, AVIP, Green EFFORTS and the European Shippers Council and will comprise the complete port community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s GreenPort Congress, takes place next month from 3 to 5 October at the World Trade Centre, Marseille in France, and is set to be packed with the latest policies and issues affecting the maritime industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}