PORT OF TARANTO, 2 AUGUST 2022 - The theme of sustainability - already included among the strategic objectives of the current Three-Year Operational Plan of the AdSPMI - was the protagonist in the last session of the Sea Resource Partnership Body on 26 July this year. and in today's meeting of the AdSPMI Management Committee during which two new key documents of the authority's institutional mission were presented. This is the first Sustainability Report (RdS) of the Port Network Authority of the Ionian Sea and the updating of the Port Energy and Environment Management Plan (DEASP).
In fact, the first Sustainability Report by the AdSP of the Ionian Sea was made official, with which the Authority, thanks to the technical-methodological support of PwC, intended to share the main activities and the goals achieved during 2021 in favour of sustainable growth of the Port of Taranto, anticipating - even on a temporal level - the ministerial directives on sustainability reporting. To do this, the international language of the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (www.globalreporting.org/standards) has been adopted with which numerous organizations of international interest analyse and communicate the economic, environmental and social impacts deriving from their governance action aimed at achieving sustainable development, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations as well as with the targets assigned to port cities globally by the 2030 agenda of the Association International Villes et Ports - AIVP.
The document analyses the social, environmental and governance impacts of the Authority's activities, highlighting the value generated over time for all stakeholders and the local community in which the Authority operates, orienting its institutional action along the guidelines of the ESG - Environment, Social, Governance. During theyear analysed by the reporting, the AdSP has shown that it has achieved new margins of institutional maturity, adopting important choices in numerous contexts that have seen the Authority act as the fulcrum and driving force of a broader process of cultural change. At the same time, the document is a communication tool that offers its stakeholders - directly involved in the drafting of the Report through specific engagement activities - a representation useful for knowing the planning aspects considered relevant to the activities of the Authority, as well as for carrying out a self-assessment of the impact results generated and, therefore, define medium-long term improvement paths.
In addition to the presentation of the RdS, about three years after the adoption of the Authority’s first DEASP (2019), with Resolution no. 13/2022 today the AdSPMI Management Committee unanimously approved the adoption of the update of the Port Energy and Environment Management Plan (DEASP), a document with which the AdSP intends to crystallize the objective of making the Port of Taranto an increasingly “smart”, “green” and sustainable port of call from an energy point of view and oriented towards digitization, as well as being more attractive for large investors in infrastructure and logistics-port services. In this sense, the AdSP MI has decided to strengthen its internal skills by entrusting the specialist technical support for updating the DEASP to the Rina Consulting team which has many years of national and international experience in the analysis of processes for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ports.
Among the innovations introduced in the 2022 DEASP compared to the previous version is the introduction of a monitoring system architecture that, starting from the "Carbon Footprint" defined at the zero moment of the survey, will allow its evolution resulting from the actions that have been undertaken in the energy sector, to be studied and assessed. This is in line with the provisions of the Guidelines for the preparation of the Port Energy and Environment Management Plan (DEASP)"- based on the guidelines adopted by the Ministry of the Environment Land and Sea (MATTM), in agreement with the Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility (MIMS) - and compatibly with the possible implementation of an energy management system according to the ISO 50001 standard.
"With the drafting of the first Sustainability Report of the AdSP Ionian Sea and the adoption of the DEASP update - says the President Sergio Prete - the Authority formalizes its "smart green port” model that sees the Taranto port of call in the role of promoter of the value of sustainability as a spontaneous driver of development, be they economic, environmental or social. The issue of sustainability is today a priority in the global political agenda and thanks to these two new documents we have intended to raise awareness of the institutional mission promoted by the Authority, focusing on sustainability as a link between the numerous operational areas that animate the Taranto port, with the aim of generating new forms of resilience of the Ionian port ecosystem, also thanks to stakeholder engagement activities that have made it possible to build a new participatory model of cooperation based on the interrelation between the various public and private actors interested in the lasting sustainable growth of the port-city of Taranto".
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- Sustainability Report of the Port Network Authority of the Ionian Sea
- Update of the Port Energy and Environment Management Plan (DEASP).