becoming world class: pat’s green port project
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Becoming World Class: PAT’s Green Port Project
Becoming World Class:
The Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) has continuously developed and promoted the Green Port Project to support its mission and strategy to conduct port businesses in parallel with environmental protection. The project enhances recognition among stakeholders while supporting growth and sustainable development. PAT also aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage stakeholders, including employees, customers, port users, and communities, to participate in reducing the impacts of port operations on the environment. Key aspects of the Green Port Project are as follows:
Adoption of Alternative Energy: PAT promotes the use of alternative energy within the organization. As part of this plan, in 2017, wind turbines were installed at Laem Chabang Port to generate electricity for port activities.
PAT’s Green Port Project
Energy-saving Projects: PAT participates in a number of projects aimed at increasing energy efficiency in the government sector, which are funded by the Energy Conservation Fund. Activities undertaken so far include:
The Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) has continuously safety standards and avoid1)any environmental at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases such LED flood Replacing 338 conventional light bulbs with sub-500-W developedPolicy and promoted the Green Port Project to impacts. PAT has issued thelights; environmental policy as carbon dioxide. These include: Environmental support its mission and seeks strategytoto enhance conduct initsorder to achieve sustainable development, PAT’s environmental policy organizational 2) Installing three inverter motor units for 55-kW cool water pumps; port businesses in parallel with environmental reduce global warming, and increase confidence of Shift Mode Logistics Development: administration to meet required safety standards and avoid any 3) Changing three Promotion high-efficiency chilling system units of over 350 protection.impacts. The project enhances among port users. environmental PAT hasrecognition issued among the environmental policy tons of refrigeration.PAT supports the government’s policy in promoting the modal shift of transport from road to water and stakeholders while supporting growth and sustainable in order to achieve sustainable development, reduce global rail transport. Shift mode logistics is expected to development. PAT also aims to reduce greenhouse On September 1, 2017, PAT announced its warming, and increase confidence among port users. Implementation of these projects enables PAT to save 3.7 million gas emissions and encourage stakeholders, Sustainable Waste Management Policy to provide decrease the number of trucks travelling to and units of electricityfrom annually. In Port, 2019, PATas relieve also traffic replaced 53 Laem Chabang as well including employees, customers, port users, the framework for environmentally-friendly On September 1, 2017, PAT announced its Sustainable conventional transformers Port, congestionwith and low-loss reduce themodels incidenceatofBangkok road and communities, to participate in reducing the managementWaste and to support sustainable Management to provide framework environmentallycuttingthe energy by over perayear, equivalent to impacts ofPolicy port operations on thethe environment. Key fordevelopment. This also supports nationalusage accidents. The427,000 Policy alsokWh supports reduction in friendly aspects management support sustainable a greenhouse gas reduction of approximately 200 reduce tons of carbon fuel consumption, which will consequently of the Greenand Portto Project are as follows: policydevelopment. under which waste management has been This also supports the national policy under which waste the same gas year, PAT applied theCoastal slow-steaming declared a National Agenda.dioxide annually. Ingreenhouse emissions. The 20G management has been declared a National Agenda. concept on three Terminal of its dredgers 8 and at Bangkok (Sondon Port and the7,Single Rail9), which Environmental Policy Transfer Operator at Laem Chabang Portdown fuel Emissions PAT’s environmental policy seeks to enhance its Reducing Greenhouse Gas seeks to deliberately reduce the (SRTO) speed of ships to cut been developed by PAT only maintain organizational administration to meet required PAT has implemented a number of measures aimed Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions consumption and have carbon emissions. Thisto not practice can reduce PAT has implemented a number of measures aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 53 tons per year. emissions of greenhouse gases suchas carbon dioxide. These 13 include: Green Area Expansion: PAT has carried out various projects to expand green areas, both the customs fence and around its ports. Promotion of Shift Mode Logistics Development: Projects include Green Area Expansion and Landscape Improvement PATsupports NEWS-NO 50.indd 13 government’s policy in promoting the modal 17/3/2564 16:20:04 PAT the in the area of Laem Chabang Port, Mangrove and Laem shift of transport from road to water and rail transport. Shift mode Chabang’s Coast Preservation, Reforestation Project of the logistics is expected to decrease the number of trucks travelling Green Ecological Area in Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan Park, Bang Pu to and from Laem Chabang Port, as well as relieve traffic Mangrove Forest and Coastal Conservation Project, Implementing congestion and reduce the incidence of road accidents. The Mangrove Afforestation and Coastal Conservation Activities Policy also supports a reduction in fuel consumption, which will at Bang Pu Recreation Center, and Reforestation Project with consequently reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The 20G Coastal Ranong Port. Terminal at Bangkok Port and the Single Rail Transfer Operator (SRTO) at Laem Chabang Port have been developed by PAT to Environmental Management not only maintain the environmental quality but also to enhance PAT has initiated several projects aimed at facilitating more the positive image of both ports. effective environmental management. Projects include: 10 INFORMA
