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Environment
IAPH is committed to the protection of environment,
as it is an indispensable factor of sustainable
economic growth. In the past, IAPH has addressed
and tackled with a wide range of environmental
issues, including the handling of hazardous
and noxious substances in a port, prevention
of air, water and soil pollution in ports,
treatment of harmful acquatic organisms in
ballast water, etc., as they affect ports
and their neighborhoods.
As the protection of environment cannot be
effectively achieved without an active participation
of all those having a shared interest in
environment, IAPH has strived to support
and promote international cooperation programs
in addressing and tackling a number of environmental
issues at an international level, as followings.
IAPH has long supported the IMO's efforts
to prevent pollution from ships by regularly
participating in its IMO's Marine Environment
Protection Committee (MEPC) meetings responsible
for the International Convention for the
Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL
73/78). For the benefit of the membership,
IAPH monitors, analyzes and disseminate the
developments in their discussion and their
implications to port management and operations.
More recently, IAPH has taken up the subject
of Alternative Maritime Power (AMP) or "Cold
Ironing" that refers to shutting down
a ship's engines while at berth and connecting
to shore-supplied electrical power, thus
eliminating virtually all emissions from
the ship. While it is already practiced at
some ports in California, USA, to comply
with the state legislation to control air
emission, IAPH is of the opinion that AMP
needs to analyzed further from the viewpoint
of port management and operation. While it
is acknowledged that AMP contributes substantially
to the prevention of atmospheric pollution
in port area, IAPH continues to monitor and
analyze various aspects of AMP from the port
manager's viewpoint, based on experiences
and lessons learned by our member ports introducing
this new method.
Dredging is vital to port construction and
development, as ports are generally required
to conduct dredging to create a new land
for further expansion and to deepen navigational
channels and harbors. IAPH has long maintained
that effects of dredging operations be minimum,
if proper care is taken, by fully supporting
and observing meetings of IMO's Convention
on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by
Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (1972)
that is widely known as London Convention
(LC), through representing IAPH at IMO's
London Convention (LC).
