AWARDS
IAPH is now Accepting Entries to the 2021 World Ports Sustainability Awards Ports are aiming to meet the challenges of the COVID19 pandemic as well as targeting medium- to long-term sustainability objectives and addressing relevant UN SDGs with various initiatives.
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ntries can be submitted online until 31 March 2021, with winners to be declared in five categories at the IAPH 2021 World Ports Conference in Antwerp from 2325th June next year. IAPH managing director, Patrick Verhoeven, commented: “We were delighted by the response of the world's ports for the 2020 WPSP Awards which resulted in six winning port projects being selected by our expert jury from a long list of eighteen
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and voted for by thousands of voting members of the public.” IAPH regular port members and associate members acting on behalf of IAPH member port(s) as client, partner or collaborator can enter a project, submitting an online form. Once accepted , the project will automatically qualify as a potential award candidate. IAPH's technical director of the World Ports Sustainability Program, Dr Antonis Michail, explained:
