MONTREAL, April 28, 2023 /CNW/ – Assembly on the Canadian Embassy in Paris on an official mission, President and Chief Government Officer of the Montreal Port Authority (MPA) Martin Imbleau and Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante signed the Worldwide Community of Port Cities (AIVP) Agenda 2030. By way of this dedication, the Metropolis of Montreal and the Port of Montreal strengthen their dedication as a port metropolis to collectively implement the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Targets.
An bold agenda
Created in 1998, the Worldwide Community of Port Cities goals to enhance city-port relations to realize city, port and financial improvement that’s extra sustainable, accountable and progressive. To assist port cities steer their approach via this course of, the AIVP 2030 Agenda units 10 objectives to be achieved by 2030 primarily based on the UN’s 17 Sustainable Improvement Targets. This plan of action invitations port-city stakeholders to experiment with progressive options on such points as adapting to local weather change, vitality transition, sustainable mobility, port tradition and identification, the city-port interface and defending biodiversity. On this approach, the AIVP 2030 Agenda goals to strengthen the city-port relationship via mutual cooperation that locations residents on the coronary heart of its efforts.
“The Metropolis and the Port of Montreal share a standard objective and a imaginative and prescient for the long run primarily based on sustainable land use planning, decarbonization, bettering the city-port interface and opening as much as residents. The collaboration between these two entities is all of the extra pure as a result of it’s a part of our converging methods. Due to AIVP 2030 Agenda, I’m sure that we are going to succeed not solely in strengthening Montreal’s property as a significant port metropolis, but in addition in rethinking the city area in gentle of greatest practices,” stated Martin Imbleau, President and Chief Government Officer of the MPA.
“I’m very proud to boost collaboration between the Metropolis and the Port of Montreal via the signing of the AIVP 2030 Agenda. Port operations are important to the town’s financial improvement. By implementing the objectives within the 2030 Agenda, the Metropolis and the Port will have the ability to maintain working to make these operations greener, extra sustainable, and higher built-in into the encompassing city material,” stated Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montréal.
A shared imaginative and prescient
AIVP members since 2022 and 1993 respectively, the Metropolis of Montreal and the MPA had already been working collectively for a number of years to realize the objectives set out within the 2030 Agenda.
The joint signing of the Agenda 2030 by the MPA and the Metropolis of Montreal will make it doable to strengthen the collaboration and joint tasks between each establishments. The Metropolis of Montreal and the Port of Montreal are already working collectively via a liaison committee on a number of issues, such because the city-port interface, selling maritime tradition, defending biodiversity, cohabiting with neighbouring communities and adapting to local weather change. The Port of Montreal has additionally pledged to take a position $10 million, or 1.5% of its price range, within the city-port interface on tasks that may enhance the constructive social influence of port actions for the advantage of communities close to its amenities.
Because of this, this dedication will promote sustainable development and harmonious cohabitation with port actions whereas contributing to the town’s financial competitiveness and vitality transition.
Concerning the Port of Montreal
Operated by the Montreal Port Authority (MPA), the Port of Montreal is the second largest port in Canada and a diversified transshipment centre that handles all kinds of items: containerized and non-containerized cargo, liquid bulk and dry bulk. The one container port in Quebec, it’s a vacation spot port served by the biggest transport strains on this planet. It’s also an intermodal hub with a service providing that’s distinctive in North America, that includes its personal rail community straight dockside linked to Canada’s two nationwide rail networks. The MPA additionally operates a Cruise Terminal and a Port Centre.
The MPA components financial, social and environmental parts into its company initiatives. This dedication is ruled by a sustainable improvement coverage whose guiding rules deal with involvement, cooperation and accountability. Port exercise helps 19,000 jobs and generates $2.6 billion in financial advantages yearly.
SOURCE Montreal Port Authority
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