ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES FACING

AFRICAN PORTS – WAY FORWARD

byHarry Barnes-Dabban

Ports Environmental Network-Africa (PENAf)

8th PAPC Conference – Arusha, Tanzania, 6 – 8 December 20108th PAPC Conference – Arusha, Tanzania, 6 – 8 December 2010

www.penaf.org

� Introduction

� Environmental Challenges for African

Ports

� Way Forward

� African Ports Environment Initiative

(APEI)

PRESENTATION

� Ports play key role in International trade

� Crucial to African economies as 90% of

foreign trade through maritime route

� Export/import ¼ of GDP

� Export led programs – increased shipping –

environmental challenges

� World Bank Global Economic Prospects

INTRODUCTION

ENVIRONMENTAL

CHALLENGES

� Two Categories:

�Shipping or Water side related

�Port area or Land side related

� Trans-boundary Issues:

�PRF, BWM, Oil Spill, Hazardous Waste

� Localized Issues:

�Tema, Dakar, Conakry, Nigeria, Freetown,

Douala etc.

ENVIRONMENTAL

CHALLENGES

� Ineffective Enforcement of Domestic and

International Legislations

� Lack of Capacity

� Gaps in Marpol73/78, OPRC ’90/Abidjan &

Nairobi, Basel/Bamako, BWM ’04

� Probo Koala & Koko Dumping as Wake up Call

� EIAs as Sustainable Site Selection

WAY FORWARD

� Environment Knows no Boundary

� Trans-boundary Issues tackled through

Cooperative Approach

� America, Europe, Parts of Asia collaborating;

Africa Missing in Action!!!

� Probo Koala & Koko Dumping Could Have Been

Prevented

� EIAs as Sustainable Site Selection

WAY FORWARD

� Need for African Environment Cooperative

Mechanism

�Offer Opportunity for Linking Ports

� Increase Local Capacity of Ports

� Facilitate Implementation of Relevant International

Environmental Regimes

�Mainstream & Standardize Practices

� Coordinate Efforts of Actors

� Bring Direct & Indirect Socio-Economic & Ecological

Benefits

AFRICAN PORTS

ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE

� Initiative seeks to encourage African Ports to

pursue an effective environmental agenda and

become proactive in environmental

management and performance

� Seeks to work with PMAESA, PMAWCA,

PMANA and PAPC

Build a Coordinated Environmental

Network Among African Ports to Serve as

a Platform for Information and Best

Practice Exchange to Improve and

Harmonize Environmental Performance

VISION

• Raise Environmental Awareness

• Influence Environmental Policy

• Promote Environmental Cooperation

• Support Capacity Building

• Help Develop Common Approach to

Issues

OBJECTIVES

Bottom Up Approach

• Local Level (Port Environmental

Network at Individual Ports)

• Regional Level (EASAF-PEN, WACAF-

PEN, NAF-PEN)

• Continental Level (PAPC)

OPERATING MECHANISM

OPERATING MECHANISM

� 1st Port Environmental Managers Working

Conference for West and Central Africa in

Tema, Ghana in June 2010

� 1st Port Environmental Managers Working

Conference for Eastern and Southern Africa in

Mombasa, Kenya in September 2010

�Historic and Hugely Successful!!!

INITIATED ACTIONS

� Develop Programs on Outcomes of Working

Conferences

� Hold Yearly Port Environmental Managers

Working Conferences

� Study Visit to Port of Bremen on MARPOL

� Build Partnerships

PROPOSED ACTIVITIES

• Launching of the Initiative at the Continental

Level (PAPC)

• Set up Environmental Networks Within and

Among 3 Lead Partnering Ports (LPPs) in Each

Region to Operationalise Initiative

NEXT STEPS

• Port Authorities

• Customs

• Private Port/Terminal Operators

• Clearing/Forwarding Agents

• Ship Owners & Agents

• Maritime Administrations

• Associated Actors in the Maritime Sector

• Shippers’ Councils etc.

TARGET GROUP

• EcoPorts Foundation

• Port Management Association of West and Central

Africa (PMAWCA)

• Port Management Association of East and Southern

Africa (PMAESA)

• International Ocean Institute (IOI)

• International Network for Environmental Compliance

and Enforcement (INECE)

• Seaports Environmental Security Network (SESN)

• Interim Guinea Current Commission (IGCC)

COLLABORATORS

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