Northport (Malaysia) Bhd (Northport), a member of MMC Group, has been announced as the winner of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) 2022 Sustainability Award under the Health Safety and Security category. Northport, with its project titled ‘Journey Towards HSE Excellence’ defeated two other finalists, Port of Montreal and Port of Amsterdam, in this category.
The announcement of the award winners was made during the Gala Dinner held in conjunction with the IAPH 2022 World Ports Conference on 17 May 2022 in Vancouver, Canada. Dato’ Azman Shah Mohd Yusof, Chief Executive Officer of Northport was present to receive the award on behalf of the company from Mark Assaf, Chief, Human Resources Development Section, TrainForTrade, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
IAPH is a global alliance with members comprising of port authorities, port operators as well as port-related businesses from 87 different countries. Its member ports handle approximately one third of the world’s sea-borne trade and well over 60% of the world container traffic.
“It is an honour and a great achievement for Northport to receive this recognition from an esteemed global institution such as IAPH, and being the first Malaysian port to receive the prestigious IAPH Sustainability Award. We would like to thank IAPH, the panel of experts and the general public who voted for us for recognising our Journey Towards HSE Excellence,” said Dato’ Azman.
For this year’s IAPH Sustainability Awards competition, a total of 53 projects were submitted by 36 member ports from 26 countries to compete in six award categories namely, Climate and Energy, Environmental Care, Community Building, Infrastructure, Digitalisation, and Health Safety and Security. All the projects were carefully evaluated and scored by an esteemed jury of nine independent experts from all over the world with diverse backgrounds including academia, non-governmental organisations, research institutes, media, shipping and former port executive management.
The winners were determined by the panel of experts with 70% marks whilst the remaining 30% of the marks was from the public voting which was made through the World Ports Sustainability Program website from 21 March 2022 until 18 April 2022.
“We would also like to thank each and every member of TeamNorthport and all our stakeholders for all their effort and support in making Northport a Safer, Greener, Smarter and Better port,” added Dato’ Azman.
CONGRATULATIONS TEAMNORTHPORT!
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