MPA Singapore won the Resilient Digital Infrastructure
category with its Digital Port Ecosystem, and the winner of the Resilient
Physical Infrastructure category was the Port of Kaohsiung for its Master Plan
2017-2021.
The Climate and Energy winner was the Port of Rotterdam for
its Zero Emission Services project. The Community Outreach & Port City
Dialogue – social dimension category was won by Hamburg Port Authority (HPA)
for its homePORT project and the environmental dimension of this category was
won by the Port of Açu for its Protecting Sea Turtles project.
The Health, Safety and Security winner was also the Port of
Açu for its Together in the fight against Covid-19 project and the Governance
and Ethics category was won by DP World for its Global Education Programme.
IAPH managing director, Patrick Verhoeven, commented: “This
year, 64 projects were submitted by 37 IAPH member ports from 21 countries, the
highest ever number submissions since the Awards began.
“The quality of these submissions was also extremely high,
leaving our international expert jury with a great deal of work to go over all
the projects in detail and score on the parameters. We are also extremely
satisfied with the response from the online voting public, who numbered 10.545
in total and whose 30% of the total points awarded did count when it came to
calculating the winners.”
MPA’s Digital Port Ecosystem has helped to reduce the
administrative burden for shipmasters during port calls and enables them to
focus on navigating ships safely. New services such as crew changes and
Just-in-Time arrival are also being implemented.
The vision of the Port of Kaohsiung’s Master Plan for Future
Development and Construction 2017–21 is to install resilient infrastructure and
implement environmentally friendly technologies, while increasing the community
outreach and port-city dialogue.
The Port of Rotterdam’s Zero Emission Services (ZES) has
introduced a new energy system for making inland shipping more sustainable. The
2050 ambition of ZES is to power 400 electric inland waterway barges with 650
ZES interchangeable battery containers.
HPA’s homePORT will provide test areas and a maker space,
for innovators to try out hardware-heavy product ideas and to serve as a
maritime real laboratory.
The Port of Açu’s Sea Turtle Conservation Programme reached
the milestone of 1 million sea turtle hatchlings released to the sea this year.
More than 14,000 turtle nests have been
identified and protected by the programme. Acu’s COVID project also saw it set
up a crisis management team to direct actions to raise awareness and fight
COVID-19 and to maintain the safety and continuity of its operations.
DP World’s Global Education Programme has so far involved
over 28,000 students and 786 teachers in participating schools, with 865
volunteering employees from DP World business units from 28 different
countries.