Social development
The Port of Barcelona wants to focus on human capital, setting social cohesion as an essential objective of its strategy through the generation of quality and diversified employment to ensure that by 2025, 40,000 people work physically in the port, daily or regularly.
The Port of Barcelona as a catalyst for occupation
The port wants to boost the employment of people in its immediate surroundings, facilitating the creation of new companies and the development of an ecosystem of innovation in the fields of logistics and transport.
These are the operational objectives to attract talent and increase the number of port workers are:
- Create employment in the port sector by promoting the blue economy.
- Promote the development of training quality sector.
- Promote research and innovation in all port-logistics activity, generating a leading innovative ecosystem.
- Attract talent and generate knowledge.
- Promote international cooperation and public-private partnerships.
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Equal opportunities
Another of the Port's purposes is to promote and lead gender equality and guarantee the social and labour integration of people with disabilities and at risk of social exclusion.
The operational objectives to promote equality of opportunities are:
- Actively promote gender equality within the port.
- Guarantee the social and labour integration of people with disabilities and at risk of social exclusion.
- Provide accurate and transparent information on port activity.
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The Port and its surroundings
The development of actions that promote knowledge and transparency of the port towards citizens and a better integration of port facilities into the urban fabric are key to a better cohesion of the infrastructure and its environment.
The integration of the Port with its urban and metropolitan environment involves the following operational objectives:
- Adapt the spaces of Port Vell and others to the urban fabric.
- Improve the port permeability and mobility with the metropolitan environment.
- Promote port culture and identity and foster awareness of the Port among citizens.
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Health and safety, the priorities
The Port of Barcelona is a critical infrastructure for society and its normal operation is essential to guarantee basic rights of citizens, so we will implement actions and projects with the latest technological advances available.
To guarantee the health and safety of people and facilities, the Port has set the following operational objectives:
- Improve industrial (safety).
- Improve port protection (security).
- Promote cybersecurity.
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