The Port of Barcelona works to reduce the impact of its activity on the environment, to reconcile its usual activity with non-port uses and at the same time to promote the sustainability of the logistics chain, which is an important link.
Sustainable objectives
The Port of Barcelona’s objectives and actions aimed at guaranteeing environmental sustainability revolve around four axes :
Ensuring that the activities performed in the Port have only a minimal impact on the environment and fostering efficient use of energy and material resources.
Fostering the most environmentfriendly transport systems to guarantee a reduction in induced impacts beyond the Port itself.
Promoting medium and long-term alternatives to hydrocarbon mobility fuels for freight and passenger transport.
Cutting atmospheric emissions of port activities to help improve air quality in the Port and its surrounding area.
Since 2014, the Port of Barcelona has implemented an environmental management system certified by ISO 14001 and by the ESPO Ports Environmental Review System (PERS) included in the EMAS III European company register.
Pilot tests were completed with natural gas in 2017 under European maritime mobility projects, which, together with other initiatives, will allow Barcelona to become the first Mediterranean port with the capacity to supply liquefied natural gas (LNG) to any ship that requests it.