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  • Haugesund Cruise Port
    News

    EXCLUSIVE: Partnerships for green growth at Haugesund

    2024-03-12T13:20:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Norway’s Port of Haugesund has placed sustainability at the centre of its development.  

  • A team of workers in a port clearing waste from the water.
    News

    South Africa’s drive to control ship emissions

    2020-05-05T11:02:00Z

    South Africa’s ports operator Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has hinted at the possibility of re-introducing in-water cleaning for all vessels calling at its eight ports.

  • An African port. A large amount of solid waste floats on the surface of the water around the ships.
    News

    Port of Durban tackles solid waste imports

    2019-10-03T16:43:00Z

    African ports face increasing generation of solid waste along with worsening climate change effects such as heavy rains and flooding. Shem Oirere finds out how Durban is rising to the challenge. With nearly all ports located in lowland areas next to big cities, the task of tracking waste generation, storage, ...

  • Port Elizabeth, South Africa
    News

    Spearheading tackling marine waste

    2018-04-18T08:52:00Z

    Five years ago, South Africa’s Port Elizabeth Harbour was named the third safest of country’s eight commercial ports in terms of security, an achievement it now appears determined to replicate in its environmental protection programme.

  • Waste barge being loaded
    News

    Urban mobility: a question of balance

    2010-03-28T09:34:00Z

    Inland ports can play an important role in offering sustainable solutions for urban mobility in and around towns and decongesting European towns. Last autumn, the European Commission adopted an Action Plan on Urban Mobility. The Action Plan proposes 20 concrete measures to help local, regional and national authorities achieve their ...