HAROPA Best Green Seaport. Asia Cargo News magazine, Asia’s leading professional press publication, has just revealed the names of the 47 winners of its 2020 Awards. The awards ceremony took place in Hong Kong on Monday 9 November, in the “remote” presence of Laurent Foloppe, HAROPA’s Commercial and Marketing Director.
The premier French port complex received the “Best Green Seaport” prize, awarded to HAROPA by the magazine’s 15,000 readers. HAROPA was competing against the ports of Hamburg, Long Beach and Singapore. This event highlights transport and logistics players who demonstrate excellence in quality of service, innovation, customer satisfaction and reliability.
This is the 4th “Best Green Seaport” trophy awarded to ports of the Seine axis. This new prize underlines recognition of HAROPA’s commitment to the environment. With this award, Asian importers/exporters, logisticians, freight forwarders and shipping companies acknowledge the quality of environmental initiatives driven by HAROPA, whose environmental commitment is based around the development of mass modes and the encouragement of effective initiatives in the fight against global warming.
HAROPA’s environmental approach translates into:
– Commitments to reduce the carbon footprint related to its activities and protect the port ecosystem
– Helping its customers decarbonise
– Research, work and environmental certification procedures
“This trophy illustrates recognition of our environmental policy. It proves that we can both be the premier French port complex and ensure the respectful development of our regions and ecosystems”, says Laurent Foloppe, HAROPA’s Commercial and Marketing Director. “Congratulations also to our winning customers and partners in the Best Logistics Service Provider and Best Shipping Line categories.”
HAROPA is a member of the Getting To Zero Coalition, an organisation that supports the decarbonisation of the maritime industry, alongside companies from shipping, energy, infrastructure and finance.
Laurent Foloppe, HAROPA’s Commercial and Marketing Director, had the privilege of presenting the awards to winners in the “Best Shipping Lines” categories:
– Asia-Africa: MSC
– Asia-Europe: CMA CGM
– Intra-Asia: Yang Ming
– Trans-Pacific: APL
– Project Cargo: AAL
About HAROPA – Ports de Paris
HAROPA – Ports de Paris is responsible for developing river traffic through the creation and operation of ports in the Ile de France. Each year, more than 20 million tonnes of goods are handled at river ports, the equivalent of one million fewer trucks on the roads. A member of HAROPA alongside the seaports of Rouen and Le Havre, it operates maritime access to Greater Paris. As one of Europe’s largest port complexes, HAROPA is connected to all continents and has nearly 500 hectares of land and land reserves along the Seine axis. HAROPA supports its customers in the implementation and management of competitive, sustainable logistics systems to serve Europe’s largest consumer basin, with 25 million inhabitants.
