ESPO congratulated Port of Rotterdam, Port of Le Havre and Port of Piraeus for renewing their EcoPorts’ environmental management standard (PERS). PERS certifications imply that a port is effectively monitoring the environmental challenges and is implementing an improved environmental management.
One of PERS certifications requirement is that the port increases transparency by making its environmental report publicly available. It also implies that the port is effectively monitoring the environmental challenges and is implementing an improved environmental management. PERS also helps ports comply with legislations.
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For a port to be PERS certified, its environmental performance is increasingly taken into account in calculations of the premium by major insurance companies.
Isabelle Ryckbost, ESPO’s Secretary General, Eamonn O’Reilly, ESPO’s Chairman, and Sotiris Raptis, EcoPorts coordinator, handed over the PERS certificates to the ports’ representatives during the annual ESPO Conference in Rotterdam.
Sotiris Raptis stated:
EcoPorts’ environmental standard (PERS) is a quality mark for the certified ports. The transparency requirements of PERS enable ports to enhance their relationship with local communities and their market reputation within the supply chain. It is also important that through EcoPorts, ports of different size and geographic location are able to exchange good practices and effectively encourage each other to improve their environmental performance.
One third of the 94 EcoPorts members have now PERS certifications, which are the only port specific environmental management standard. Compliance with the PERS standard is independently assessed by Lloyd’s Register and the certificate is valid for two years. PERS is revised after this period to ensure that the port continues to meet the requirements.
