Terminals & Storage
November/December 2015
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Antwerp to launch
sustainability award
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ntwerp port community has published its
third Sustainability Report.
Claimed to be unique in its kind, the report
covers the sustainable enterprise initiatives taken
by the many different companies in the port. The
fact that is produced by the port community as a
whole is also indicative of the way in which it was
drawn up, in extensive dialogue with the various
stakeholders, Antwerp says.
The first Sustainability Report for the port was
presented at the beginning of 2012 by Antwerp
Port Authority, the Left Bank Development
Corporation and VOKA-Alfaport. This first edition
was a benchmarking exercise, ie, a measurement
of the starting points. It also identified sustainable
enterprise as the challenge of the 21st century. In
that same year the report won the award for the
‘Best Belgian Sustainability Report’.
The second report, which went live at the end of
2013, focused on seven main areas, each of which
was assessed from the three points of ‘People,
Planet and Prosperity’, as sustainability covers
much more than just the environment.
For this third report the number of subject areas
has been extended, but still with the same
attention paid to the ‘3Ps’. “In this way the
biennial report has developed into a touchstone
for the port of Antwerp’s determination to
maintain its leadership position in creation of
added value,” said a port spokesperson.
To publicise and lend emphasis to this ambition a
Sustainability Award will be presented for the first
time in 2016. A pro