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This year the ESPO Award will be assigned to the European port that will introduce the best innovative environmental project
Up to now the prize is won by the ports of Gijón, Helsinki, Stockholm, Genoa and Antwerp
January 31, 2014
This year the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) will confer the ESPO Award on Societal Integration of Ports, prize that has reached the sixth edition, to the European port that will introduce the best innovative environmental project.
The association of the European ports, than from today is ready to receive the proposals of the associates, has found that the reduction of the environmental impact of the harbour activities and the improvement of local the environmental conditions for the people who work and live around the port are key factors for the success of social integration of the ports. Through prize ESPO it confides to identify and to promote devised innovative projects from the ports that face typical the problematic ones in environmental field determined from the relationship of the port with the city, as the pollution, air pollution of waters, the noise, the powder and the odor.
"We encourage our associates lively to participate to the competition of this year", Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO general secretary has said. "The potential winners of this year - he has added - are the Harbour Authorities that go beyond how much demanded they in terms of environmental management. We are looking for ports that they assume innovative actions in order to improve truly the local atmosphere and to give answers to the worries of the local community. As usual - it has concluded Isabelle Ryckbost - all the introduced projects will be promoted so that every participant will turn out in some measure a winner".
ESPO has instituted the prize in 2009. Up to now to win it they have been the ports of Gijón (2009), Helsinki (2010), Stockholm (2011), Genoa (2012) and Antwerp (2013).
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This year the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) will confer the ESPO Award on Societal Integration of Ports, prize that has reached the sixth edition, to the European port that will introduce the best innovative environmental project.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
