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The Port of Barcelona 2024 Annual Report presents the key data concerning port activity and the results of the year and, in doing so, responds to the demand for information from stakeholders in the Port of Barcelona. The data come mainly from Barcelona Port Authority (APB), the entity that manages the infrastructure and guarantees its basic services.
The contents of this report are structured around sustainability, which the Fourth Strategic Plan of the Port of Barcelona (2021-2025) sets as the central axis of port activity. The Port is orienting itself towards this value, towards more respectful ways of doing things, in order to address and be an active part of a global change that improves living conditions overall.
Sustainability is also a central aim of the approach of all Port of Barcelona companies and entities integrated in the Port of Barcelona's Sectoral Sustainability Plan, created in 2015 and a pioneer in the port sector.
The approach taken in this report has taken into account the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international benchmark organisation for preparing sustainability reports, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The Port of Barcelona Fourth Strategic Plan is the document laying the groundwork for action for the 2021-2025 period and focusing on sustainability.
Generate prosperity in our community while increasing our customers' competitiveness by providing efficient and sustainable logistics and transport services.
Become the SMARTest logistics hub in the Mediterranean:
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RESILIENT
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TRANSPARENT
The Plan is based on three major strategic objectives (SO), each of which is rolled out into four operational objectives. These 12 operational objectives are simultaneously embodied in more than 50 projects and operational actions.
ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
€70 billion worth of external trade
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
50% of container and ro-ro wharves
electrified
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
40,000 people employed at the Port
The Port of Barcelona has been a party to the United Nations Global Compact 2015-2030 right from the start, and is therefore committed to integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) consciously and gradually within its strategy.
This report refers throughout to the attainment of the SDGs. As shown in the table below, due to its characteristics and activity, the Port of Barcelona is concerned by 13 of the 17 SDGs of the United Nations, six of which are priority objectives on which it has a differentiated and direct impact (goals 6, 8, 9, 11, 14 and 17).
SDG
Objective
Location in the report
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages
Social value
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning
Social value
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Social value
Ensure availability of water and sanitation for all
Environmental value
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Environmental value
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth and decent work for all
Economic value
Social value
SDG
Objective
Location in the report
Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation
Management
Economic value
Environmental value
Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Social value
Environmental value
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Economic value
Environmental value
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Environmental value
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
Environmental value
Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Management
Revitalise the Global Alliance for Sustainable Development
Management
Social value
(*) Highlighted in blue, the SDGs that directly and prioritarily concern the Port of Barcelona.
