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Los Angeles is the first European port to adopt the program Environmental Ship Index
It previews the allocation of incentives to the operators who use little polluting ships
May 4, 2012
(ESI) of boosting of the landings place of little polluting ships. Index ESI is developed by the World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI), a project realized from the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), and is used in order to relatively characterize the environmental performances of the ships to their emissions of polluting substances and carbon dioxide.
Yesterday the board of directors of the Port of Los Angeles has approved of the adoption of the program, that the next 1° July will become operating in the Californian port. Program ESI previews the allocation of incentives to the operators who use little polluting ships for their ports of call to the port of Los Angeles, incentives that they will vary between 250 and 5.250 dollars for every port of call of ships that satisfy specific requirement.
The executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, Geraldine Knatz, that he presides also the WPCI and he is the current president of the IAPH, has emphasized that "the Environmental Ship Index defines the standard of reference for "green" a marine transport and - has added - we encourage also the other ports to follow this example. A success wider than this program - in fact it has explained - resides in its adoption by as many as possible of ports to the aim increasing the incentives to the operators whom they invest in the cleansing of the air and in order to maximize the benefits for the health of everyone of we".
Currently program ESI is adopted in the European ports of Amburgo, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bremen/Bremerhaven, Civitavecchia, Delfzijl, Kiel, the Havre, Oslo, Rotterdam and Zeebrugge.
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(ESI) of boosting of the landings place of little polluting ships. Index ESI is developed by the World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI), a project realized from the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH), and is used in order to relatively characterize the environmental performances of the ships to their emissions of polluting substances and carbon dioxide.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
