Sustainability in Ports and Shipyards – Learn How It Works in Practice

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 30/12/2020 at 13:52

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How Does Sustainability in Ports and Shipyards Work in Brazil? Experts Respond and Pay Increasing Attention to These Issues

Brazilian ports and shipyards have technology for managing the sustainability of their activities. What is lacking, according to experts, is the standardization of strategies to act on preventing and managing the environmental impacts inherent to port operations.

Ports and Shipyards and Their Importance to the Economy

Brazilian ports and shipyards are of great importance for the economic development of several countries, as is the case with Brazilian ports, which are responsible for more than half of imports and exports. In light of this, there is a very important issue to be remembered, rethought, and executed by port authorities: the sustainability of port terminals.

This concern arises from the various alterations made by ports and shipyards in their locations, such as emissions of polluting gases, solid waste disposal, alterations in nearby ecosystems, and other impacts.

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Port of Santos as an Example of Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability at the Port of Santos has become an inseparable part of its business. In 1999, the Environmental and Occupational Safety area was structured to manage the environmental activities developed at the Organized Port, being responsible for the planning and organization of the use of spaces located in the Organized Port.

The SPA centralizes environmental information from actions carried out by each lessee located at the Port or by different operators and ships that dock there.

It is the SPA’s responsibility, as the administrator of the Port of Santos, to monitor compliance with environmental legislation by each actor who utilizes the Santos port complex to carry out their activities.

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