The Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been awarded the Sustainability awards of the International Association of Ports (IAPH) in its Climate and Energy modality for its Tenerife Port Zero project, an initiative made up of a package of actions whose objective is create carbon dioxide neutral ports that contribute to global climate goals.
The Port Authority has explained that this line of work, which already has international recognition, is shaped by actions such as the supply of electricity to ships, a service in which we were pioneers at the state level and which is already offered in La Gomera, La Palma. and Santa Cruz de Tenerife; the production and use of renewable energies in the port for self-consumption; smart street lighting; tests with hydrogen cells and wave energy converters, without forgetting other larger actions such as the offshore wind farm project offshore in the waters of the port of Granadilla, a private initiative that is processed as an R&D&I project at the level of experimentation.
Pedro Suárez, president of Puertos de Tenerife, has expressed his satisfaction with this recognition of a strategy that “represents a collective effort to transform our ports into facilities with zero polluting emissions with a deadline of 2035.” We will do so, he continues, “by applying innovative initiatives that also demonstrate our commitment to environmental respect.”
The awards were presented last night at the gala held in Abu Dhabi, distributed in six categories. In the case of Puertos de Tenerife, it competed with the projects of the Port Authority of Bilbao and the Ports of Fiji.
It is worth noting that the World Port Sustainability Awards were created to recognize the best projects registered in the IAPH World Port Sustainability Program (WPSP), created in May 2017 with the aim of coordinating future sustainability efforts of ports in around the world and foster international cooperation with supply chain partners, always guided by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations.
On this occasion, there were 86 projects presented in their different categories that correspond to 48 different ports in up to 31 countries around the world.
Founded in 1955, the IAPH is a global alliance of ports, currently representing some 170 regular member ports and 126 port-related associate members in 87 countries. Together, member ports handle more than a third of global maritime trade and more than 60% of global container traffic. The IAPH collaborates with the World Bank, the World Customs Organization, the World Maritime Forum and the World Economic Forum.
