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1 July 2025

The AIVP General Assembly approves the creation of the permanent AIVP North America representation!

On June 19, 2025, our association’s General Assembly was held by videoconference, chaired by Édouard […]

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3 May 2023

The City and the Port of Montreal have signed the AIVP Agenda 2030

On Friday 27th April 2023, by initialling the AIVP 2030 Agenda, Mrs Valérie Plante, Mayor of Montreal, and Mr Martin Imbleau, Chairman and Managing Director of the Montreal Port Authority, displayed their common ambition in matters of sustainable development and their will to work hand in hand in the service of the territory.

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23 September 2022

Sustainably cruising into World Tourism Day

World Tourism Day has been held on 27 September since 1980. As the tourism sector continues to grow, the impacts it has on the environment is increasing as well. The cruise industry has been taking measures to reduce its impact and to sail its way into a sustainable future. As the sector was heavily impacted by Covid during the past two years, it has taken the time to reshape itself. Green corridors for cruise ships have been created, cruise lines have discussed with cities and ports on how to collaborate more sustainably, and some lines have banned single use plastic. To understand better the steps that ports, municipalities, and cruise organisations are taking to support the sustainable transition of cruising, we have asked some of our members the following question for World Tourism Day: "How can local authorities (port authorities and municipalities) support sustainable cruise/maritime tourism in port cities?"

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23 September 2022

5th Meeting of the AIVP – MedCruise Working Group on Cruises and Port Cities

AIVP and MedCruise hosted together on the 20th of September the 5th meeting of the shared Working Group focusing on cruises and port cities. The topic of this session was community building, key issue for a sustainable interaction between cruises, port cities and its citizens.

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2 June 2022

Discover the AIVP’s AGENDA 2030

As a follow-up to the 17th World Conference Cities and Ports, find the Agenda 2030 of the AIVP which assists port city stakeholders to direct their actions and projects towards sustainable port-city relationships. AIVP’s 2030 Agenda is the world’s first initiative to adapt the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals for the specific context of City Port relations.

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Interviews
29 March 2022

Port of Saguenay: sustainable development as a driving force

The Port of Saguenay (Canada) is currently implementing its new strategic plan for ever more sustainable development. With this in mind, the port intends to benefit from the best practices of our members by joining our international network, but also to share its own thoughts and experiences. In fact, it is already fully in line with several of the goals of our AIVP 2030 Agenda, such as the ones regarding the protection of biodiversity, or dialogue with citizens. Interview with Carl LABERGE, General Manager, Saguenay Port Authority

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9 March 2022

Port stakeholders show their support for Ukraine

As the war continues to rage, recent weeks have seen increasing acts of solidarity with […]

Interviews
26 January 2022

Port Saint John (Canada): high quality food for citizens

Port Saint John (Canada) sees a high quality food supply as a major part of its activity, and relies on constant cooperation with its partners to develop its solutions. But public awareness of this role – which is also integral to the port’s social responsibility policy and actions to support the local community - is still too low.

Interviews
23 November 2021

Port of Vancouver: preserving our natural environment for generations to come

The Port of Vancouver has the ambitious goal of becoming the most sustainable port in the world. A significant part of the path towards this goal is connected to sustaining a healthy ecosystem for the local biodiversity. The port is developing a myriad of actions to protect the local species and managing the port lands and water in a sustainable way, including a broad Habitat Enhancement Program developed over the past 30 years. In this interview we will learn about the different projects implemented to protect and enhance the local biodiversity. Interview with Duncan Wilson, Vice-President of Environment and External Affairs at the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.

Actualités
3 November 2021

AIVP members support the “Call to Action for Shipping Decarbonization”

The initiative launched by the by the Getting to Zero Coalition in partnership with the […]

Actualités
5 May 2021

Renewing and measuring the effectiveness of governance

Port city governance is complex and even open to interpretation. Each country has its own […]

Interviews
15 December 2020

Digitization and co-construction for a sustainable mobility in Halifax (Canada)

In 2015 the Port of Halifax started to work on an infrastructure plan aiming at […]

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