
Countdown to #IAPH2025: From WPCI to ESI
June 20, 2025
As the 2000s ended, IAPHcontinued to focuson environmental care, even as the Great Recession buffeted the industry. “We should not allow rough economic weather to blow us off the course of sustainability,” urged secretary general Satoshi Inoue inPorts & Harborsmagazine, as 2009 began. He was reflecting on the launch of the World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI) in Los Angeles two months previously. WPCI was designed for the global port community to work together to tackle climate change via six